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Does every window running use System.Windows.Forms.Form?
The title says it. From Java to C++ to Visual Basic to Console Apps. Does every compiled window use the class System.Drawing.Forms.Form?
No.
In .NET, System.Windows.Forms is (essentially) just a tool to draw windows, but it is not the only tool. Other languages have their own tools; Java has the Swing libraries, Python and Perl have several other GUI toolkits, each which do things differently. Console Apps use an entirely different way of presenting information. How things are drawn not only depends on the language, but also the GUI API used. For example, a window might be entirely drawn using C++ and DirectX and custom drawing routines; these would not use .NET at all, nor any underlying tools that .NET uses. That same window might be drawn with C++ and Open GL; the same data might be displayed, but the routines invoked to draw it would be different. In fact, you could do all the drawing with assembly if you were really masochistic!