I was wondering why people choose winfors instead of guy.

If you are doing a small editor like a model viewer do you really need a gui ? I cannot find any real tutorial on how use winforms not just intergaret it to xna can someone point me out one ? If you want tjust to give an opinion or why you use it or just your own experience with it feel free to share.

I just looking for the easiest option for me, since I never use it.


cheers

1) WinForms is built by an experienced team at Microsoft and has been used for many, many projects. So you know it works.
2) WinForms has a visual editor so you don't have to lay out the UI by hand.
3) WinForms has a lot of controls, so you don't have to compromise your application's design based on the UI library you find for XNA or have to write a big UI system.

Basically if you're just making an app for Windows, writing a UI framework for XNA to replicate what WinForms already does is a waste of time unless you just want to learn how that sort of stuff works.

If you just need a menu for "new game," "exit game" and "credits," rolling your own GUI is not that hard.

However, once you need a PropertyGrid, or a DataGrid, or even just a ComboBox, then writing that in XNA is hard. And if you want to support non-Latin languages (right-to-left, top-to-bottom, multi-byte, etc) then it's even harder.

XNA is great at shuffling data between your game and the graphics card and other devices.
WinForms is great at drawing text and handling mouse/keyboard "productivity" input.
It just makes sense to use each thing for what it's good at, rather than re-inventing the wheel (and, lets face it, your re-invented wheel often ends up kind-of oval most of the time...)