Comparative analysis of Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Forms

Michał Pasztaleniec

mmichal210@gmail.com
Lublin University of Technology (Poland)

Maria Skublewska-Paszkowska


Lublin University of Technology (Poland)

Abstract

The article presents a comparison of two technologies for creating desktop applications based on C#. The analysis conserns the use of the processor, RAM and time of the operation was carried out on the technologies of Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Forms. The research use applications with the same functionality in both technologies. The comparative analysis took into account the times of operations and application performance.


Keywords:

.NET; WPF; Windows Presentation Foundation; Windows Forms; WinForms; performance analysis

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Published
2020-03-30

Cited by

Pasztaleniec, M., & Skublewska-Paszkowska, M. (2020). Comparative analysis of Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Forms. Journal of Computer Sciences Institute, 14, 26–30. https://doi.org/10.35784/jcsi.1571

Authors

Michał Pasztaleniec 
mmichal210@gmail.com
Lublin University of Technology Poland

Authors

Maria Skublewska-Paszkowska 

Lublin University of Technology Poland

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