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Re:Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the "zombie" runtimes of enterpr... by artimaeis on Thursday April 10, 2025 @08:48AM (#43643239)
Re: .NET WinForms -- they open sourced it a few years back.

https://github.com/dotnet/winforms

They even went so far as to bring back the forms designer to Visual Studio.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/windows-forms-designer...

Obviously it's still a pretty sizable migration to go from .NET Framework to .NET, but at least the UI framework is available again.

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Re:Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the "zombie" runtimes of enterpr... by n4r9 on Thursday April 10, 2025 @09:01AM (#43643358)
Yes. We have several solutions that include WinForms projects. Migrating those from Framework 4.8 to .Net 8 was as simple as changing "net48" to "net8.0-windows" in the csproj file.
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