What is "winforms"

Winforms is the informal term given to Windows Forms, is a graphical interface application included as part of Microsoft . NET Framework. Winforms provides native visual access to Microsoft Windows window interface using existing Windows API in managed code.

Applications developed in Windows Forms are event driven. The application stays most of the time waiting for the action of a user to execute a code, different from a Console Application where the execution has a start and end.

Windows Forms is also available on the platform Mono.

Components that are part of the Windows Forms solution can be found here.

Comparison of Winforms and WPF.