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It may sound strange but I have not found any simple introduction to WinForms (theory, I do know how to work with the forms). On MSDN I read that a form is a basic element of an application, but I would like to know what the winforms generally are. According to the wiki, it’s an API. Is there anything on MSDN that I am missing?
Windows Forms was the main API for .NET used to develop graphical user interfaces, prior to WPF and Silverlight.
It’s based on the traditional Windows API, wrapped into a clean .NET interface. Each “Control” is basically a wrapper around native, Windows API controls, and made much easier to use.
This has been supplanted by WPF and Silverlight now, though, so if you’re just starting out, you might want to consider focusing on them instead.