Microsoft developers keep plugging away at the "huge technical challenge" of duplicating the Windows Forms designer found in the aging, Windows-only .NET Framework in .NET Core, the new open-source, ...

Windows Forms also provides one of the most productive ways to create desktop applications based on the visual designer provided in Visual Studio. It enables drag-and-drop of visual controls and other ...

That means we need to re-architect the way the designer surface “communicates” with Visual Studio,” Microsoft wrote in a post.

Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub and making available the first public preview of Visual Studio 2019.