0x06│ 2026.04.27│ 12 min read │ winforms · vb6 · visual-basic · dotnet · csharp · win32 · visual-studio · software-history · programming · opinion │ history (v5) Every UI framework Microsoft has shipped since WinForms (2002) was sold as its successor. WPF, Silverlight, UWP, MAUI, Blazor desktop. Twenty-four years on, WinForms is still there, on modern .NET, with a designer that any VB6 developer would recognise on sight. The Cooper and Geary form-designer architecture from 1987 is still the path...