{"id":275,"date":"2007-07-13T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2007-07-13T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T13:55:28","slug":"codegear-abandons-net-windows-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/275-codegear-abandons-net-windows-forms.html","title":{"rendered":"CodeGear abandons .NET Windows Forms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intriguing <a href=\"http:\/\/beensoft.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/codegear-to-drop-winforms-designer-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog post here<\/a> suggests that future versions of Delphi .NET will not support Windows Forms, the most widely used GUI library for .NET. Apparently the Delphi 2006 Windows Forms designer will not appear in Delphi &#8220;Highlander&#8221;. If you want to do GUI work in Delphi .NET, you will have to use VCL.NET, or else make do without a designer.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance this looks like a mistake. The main problem is third party components. There are plenty around for Windows Forms, few for VCL.NET. OK, you can import a Windows Forms component and use it in VCL.NET, but it&#8217;s not ideal.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, what is the future for Delphi .NET? Pretty uncertain, judging by what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regdeveloper.co.uk\/2007\/06\/10\/codegear_still_for_sale\/\" target=\"_blank\">CEO Jim Douglas told me<\/a>. If the speculation about Windows Forms in Delphi is correct, then anyone who invested in Delphi Windows Forms development has been left stranded. Might not the same happen to VCL.NET developers? And what are the implication for WPF, a much nicer GUI library than Windows Forms though immature and little-used at the moment? Developers hate this kind of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:310f7311-c3e5-4e56-b58a-46f54ac61f5f\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/codegear\" rel=\"tag\">codegear<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/windows%20forms\" rel=\"tag\">windows forms<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/.net\" rel=\"tag\">.net<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/highlander\" rel=\"tag\">highlander<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intriguing blog post here suggests that future versions of Delphi .NET will not support Windows Forms, the most widely used GUI library for .NET. Apparently the Delphi 2006 Windows Forms designer will not appear in Delphi &#8220;Highlander&#8221;. If you want to do GUI work in Delphi .NET, you will have to use VCL.NET, or else &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/275-codegear-abandons-net-windows-forms.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CodeGear abandons .NET Windows Forms?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}