{"id":161,"date":"2015-07-19T13:46:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T12:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riedmann.it\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2015-07-19T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T12:46:29","slug":"why-wpf-and-not-winforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Why WPF and not WinForms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I had to repeat often why I choose WPF for .NET programming over WinForms, I have decided to write down my reasons here:<\/p>\n<ul>WPF works much better than WinForms on todays high-resolution monitors like FullHD tablets and 4K displays<\/ul>\n<ul>with WPF it is much easier to build the moden interface designs my customers are asking<\/ul>\n<ul>WPF has a very powerful binding and is made for modern programming paradigms like MVVM. Therefore it permits a much cleaner design of the program structure<\/ul>\n<ul>WPF is what Microsoft recommends for new applications<\/ul>\n<p>I think, these reasons are worth to discard what I know about the Windows API.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I had to repeat often why I choose WPF for .NET programming over WinForms, I have decided to write down my reasons here: WPF works much better than WinForms on todays high-resolution monitors like FullHD tablets and 4K displays with WPF it is much easier to build the moden interface designs my customers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulcan-net-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}