# Windows Forms

Tool · [Standard tools and platforms](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tools)

Also called: WinForms, Win Forms

A [Microsoft](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/microsoft) [framework](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tech-stack) for building desktop apps for [Windows](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/windows) with .NET. Many long-running business apps use it.

**For example:** A company keeps its [warehouse](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/data-warehouse) app on Windows Forms while it plans a web version.

Official site: <https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/desktop/winforms/>

## Connects to (5)

- [Tech stack](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tech-stack): The set of programming languages and tools a product is built with.
- [.NET](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/dotnet): A free, open-source platform from Microsoft for building apps for the web, Windows, phones and the cloud, mostly in C#.
- [Windows](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/windows): Microsoft's operating system for personal computers, the most common one on office desktops and laptops.
- [Windows Presentation Foundation](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/wpf): A Microsoft framework for building Windows desktop apps with .NET, with richer layouts and graphics than Windows Forms.
- [Technical debt](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/technical-debt): Shortcuts taken while building software that save time now but make later changes slower and riskier until someone cleans them up.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/windows-forms