Thread: How to create windows form application in C in Visual studio 2019?

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    Question How to create windows form application in C in Visual studio 2019?

    There are only options for C++/C# for windows from applications, but not C. Is there a way to code windows form applications in C in visual studio 2019?

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    Windows Forms is originally a class library that is part of the .NET Framework and is, in fact, a wrapper over the Win API. Supported languages ​​are C#, C++, VB and other .NET languages. Therefore, Visual Studio does not support the C form designer or any C support for Windows Forms. For C, you can use the low-level Win API to create GUI applications. However, you have to do everything directly in C code, placing each interface element manually, setting everything (including the ability to close the window, resize it, etc.), and this can all take a lot of time and lines of code.

    And therefore, I recommend using existing GUI libraries like GTK, Tk, IUP, etc.

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