When creating a new project in Visual Studio 2019 there are two options to create a Windows Forms App. What is the difference between these options?
A Windows form application is an application that has a graphical user interface(GUI) like the Visual C# IDE. A console program on the other hand is a text application. There are not fancy controls like buttons or textboxes in a console application and they are run from the command prompt.
. Net Core does not support desktop application development and it rather focuses on the web, windows mobile, and windows store. . Net Framework is used for the development of both desktop and web applications as well as it supports windows forms and WPF applications.
Windows Forms App(.NET Framework) is the type which makes desktop apps using .NET Framework. Windows Forms App(.NET) is the type which makes desktop apps also but it uses .NET Core (Latest Version is .NET Core 5.0) The Windows Control Library project template is used to create custom controls to use on Windows Forms like we use button from the tool box Developers use the . NET framework to create Windows desktop applications and server based applications. NET Core is used to create server applications that run on Windows, Linux and Mac.
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