So what do people use nowadays? I have been stuck programming in java for backend stuff (not really against my will) but I kinda feel guilty I can't write software for my desktop platform anymore ...

Instead of a main () function, a Windows GUI program starts at WinMain (). It's in this function that your program does all of its initialization. Part of this initialization includes defining the ...

Table: Selected GUI component providers for Windows Forms When distributing finished applications, a distinction must be made between the classic .NET Framework and modern .NET.

Hi. I'm a perl guy that's looking into programming a GUI desktop application to run on windows. All of my programming in the last couple of years has been perl with a web interface.I have a BS in ...