After a long long wait, my copy of Windows Forms Programming with C# has arrived. So lately I’ve been building a simple .net GUI with the help of Visual Studio 2003 Trial Edition.

I’m more impressed with Windows Forms than I was initially. Firstly, a few judiciously placed splitters combined with docking and anchoring mean that my controls resize reasonably and so far I’ve not written any custom code to handle it.

After some fluffing around with various Controls I’ve got the basic functionality working for my app. Next step is to implement DataBinding correctly for the ListViews I have.

As good as windows forms is, it still leaves a lot to be desired when compared with Gtk/libglade.