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Windows Vista and Windows Forms

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Folks on the Windows Forms team are working hard to make sure Windows Forms applications look great on Vista, but we can always use your help in the real world apps you are using. I know many of you MSDN subscribers have picked up the Vista CTPs and tried your own Windows Forms apps on it. We’d love to hear your feedback on how it went. Did the functionality work? Did it look right? Did it feel like a Vista era application? Please comment here or drop me a line

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  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2006
    LOL!  I knew that the reason they're currently not paying attention to .NET 2.0 WinForms bugs/suggestions on Ladybug had to be Vista related!

    I'm currently waiting on some response to:-
    FDBK46251
    FDBK26997
    FDBK21630
    FDBK23910

    Note that most of these bugs relate to tooltips - they are so bugged in .NET 2.0.  It's the one thing that really bit me when I ported my app DataBatcher to .NET 2.0.

    Yesterday I read on Tim Sneath's blog: "As far as Windows Forms goes, the current release as part of Visual Studio 2005 demonstrates a level of maturity and strength that is enviable. It's the culmination of the last twenty years of development based on the GDI/GDI32/GDI+ platform."

    It is to laugh!  20 years of maturity, and tooltips don't even work proper.  sigh, I guess that .NET 2.0 is legacy code already, not worthy of much attention when there's so much work to do on Vista, WinFX, etc.  double sigh
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2006
    Brad wants to know your experiences...
  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2006
    The toolstrips does not feel like Vista at all and that basicly ruins everything.