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Hector Uriel Perez Rojas
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Hector Uriel Perez Rojas

Hector is an experienced senior developer, with more than 10 years of experience in developing desktop, web, and mobile solutions with the .NET platform. He was recognized with the Microsoft MVP award for two consecutive years in 2021 and 2022. He is an active member of the .NET community and is the founder of El Camino Dev and Devs School academies.
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Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia
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Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia

Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia is a solutions Architect and Technical Lead recognized as a Microsoft MVP, C# corner MVP, and Alibaba Cloud MVP. He is a member of the Avanet community in Medellín and an active member of tech events in Colombia. He has also been a speaker at different conferences around Latin America.
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Templates for desktop development

The last category of templates we will look at are desktop development templates. To install these templates on your computer, you must select the workload called .NET desktop development, as shown in Figure 2.25:

Figure 2.25 – The ".NET desktop development" workload

Figure 2.25 – The ".NET desktop development" workload

This workload includes templates for two technologies with many years of maturity: Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Windows Forms is an old but still widely used technology among .NET developers, since it allows us to create desktop stacks quickly thanks to its drag-and-drop solution. The main templates for Windows Forms development include the following:

  • Window Forms App: This is the base template for creating a new Windows Forms application. It includes a file so that you can begin to design your first window quickly.
  • Windows Forms Control Library: A project that allows us to manage customized controls...
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Hector Uriel Perez Rojas

Hector is an experienced senior developer, with more than 10 years of experience in developing desktop, web, and mobile solutions with the .NET platform. He was recognized with the Microsoft MVP award for two consecutive years in 2021 and 2022. He is an active member of the .NET community and is the founder of El Camino Dev and Devs School academies.
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Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia

Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia is a solutions Architect and Technical Lead recognized as a Microsoft MVP, C# corner MVP, and Alibaba Cloud MVP. He is a member of the Avanet community in Medellín and an active member of tech events in Colombia. He has also been a speaker at different conferences around Latin America.
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