Windows Forms Library Extensions
One of the biggest selling points behind MFC during the 1990s was the great class libraries available for extending the framework. With Windows Forms on the horizon, it's time to keep an eye out for class libraries that extend Windows Forms.MFC and its extensions were confined to the C++ language, but the .NET common language runtime offers a variety of syntaxes for writing Windows Forms, including C#, Visual Basic .NET, and Managed C++. Syncfusion, a company based in Cary, North Carolina, provides a wide variety of .NET tools to make programming for .NET easier. Syncfusion's Essential Suite includes components to make your .NET Windows Forms applications more solid and polished. You can download a fully functional 15-day trial version from http://www.syncfusion.com, as well as the Essential Suite Interactive Showcase, an application that shows several Syncfusion components in action. The components run under the common language runtime, so they work with Managed C++ as well as with C# and Visual Basic .NET.