News Some 5 Years In, 'New' WinForms Designer Still Not There By David Ramel 02/28/2024 First, it was problems with moving from the proprietary .NET Framework to the open source, cross-platform .NET ...

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.