Are all windows programms created using visual studio.?

Question

Because visual studio has a user interface that lets you to make buttons and stuff. but it only has support for 3 languages. VB.net C# and C++. What programm do they use to create windows forms application using c or java

Answer 1

Actually, it is perfectly possible in C++ and C# to create graphical interfaces without the aid of the form designer. It is merely a convenience of modern development. There are other ways to build graphical interfaces without using Visual Studio. For instance, you can use wxWidgets and there are lots of programs that help you build windows for that and assist in writing the code (wxWidgets can be used with Visual Studio too, if you'd like).



Java has libraries of code for developing graphical interfaces as well. In fact, Netbeans comes with a tool to help you design interfaces visually. I find it to be less intuitive than the one in Visual Studio but it will do the same sort of thing.

Answer 2

No. All Windows programs are not created in Visual Studio.



If you wanted to target Windows as well as other platforms, Java would be a viable choice. Visual Studio does't support that. You might use Eclipse, or you might choose another IDE that supports Java. There are a number of good choices.



I don't think anyone writes WinForms apps in C anymore. I used to do that. NEVER EVER AGAIN. It's too hard. You can't be productive today using C to write a form. You'll write 100 lines of code to do what the Java programmer can do in 10. Or I can do in 1 or 2 lines of C#.



Pick your poison: Java or C#. Then pick your IDE. Most any other choice will be wrong...10 years from now.

Answer 3

No. They could use most anything they want to.