When you design a WinForms Form, it gets generated into a method called InitializeComponent. When you reopen that Form, it gets recreated by interpreting that code. In Visual Studio 2022 17.5, we've modernized the code generation process. And made some changes.
Interested in what is going on and the future of .NET languages, (C#, F#, and Visual Basic)? We have just published an updated version of the .NET Language Strategy on our documentation!
The WinForms code-behind approach has always made app development in WinForms unrivaled fast. For complex line-of-business apps, however, it can become an architectural challenge. New Command- and Data Binding Features in .NET 7 make UI-Controllers and MVVM an alternative and allow them also be reused in UI stacks like .NET MAUI.
We’re happy to announce the official launch of the .NET Community Toolkit 8.1 release, bringing with it some new highly requested features, improvements, new analyzers and major performance optimizations to the MVVM Toolkit source generators!