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Asked: 2026-05-17T15:56:44+00:00

I know this could be a subjective question, but I want to know your

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I know this could be a subjective question, but I want to know your experience and an estimation of how long it would take for a Winforms programmer to switch to WPF and write a simple application.

I’m starting to build a windows application using .Net Winforms. Since the customer cares about the UI, I thought that it’s a good idea to switch to WPF at last.
I’m very new to WPF and almost don’t know anything about it except some general knowledge.

The application is a single user desktop application with SQL Server Express as the back-end database and will use either Strongly Typed Datasets or subsonic as its DAL. Some basic UI elements (Datagridviews, Textboxes, Buttons, …) will be used. As you can see it’s not a complicated project at all. That’s why I was considering using WPF for the first time for this project.

I don’t know how long would it take for a Winforms developer to get used to WPF.
Do you think I should start this project using WPF considering its learning curve?
P.S. The project should be ready in about 2 months and I’m a fast learner.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Like Dan said, Use a Canvas and you’re pretty close to winforms, but that sucks.
    EDIT : Before I forget, Don’t expect the DataGrid to be anything like the Winforms DataGrid. I tend to use the ListView (with a GridView layout) to replace it in simple cases.

    Get a good (i.e. practically oriented) book for a steep learning curve. I recommend Adam Nathan’s book, it teaches you the important concepts at a soon-ready-to-go pace.

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