Editing Windows Forms (section)

==XAML backwards compatibility with Windows Forms==
For future development, Microsoft has succeeded Windows Forms with a [[XAML]]-based GUI entry using frameworks such as [[Windows Presentation Foundation|WPF]] and [[Universal Windows Platform|UWP]].  However, drag and drop placement of GUI components in a manner similar to Windows Forms is still provided in XAML by replacing the root XAML element of the Page/Window with a "Canvas" UI-Control.  When making this change, the user can build a window in a similar fashion as in Windows Forms by directly dragging and dropping components using the Visual Studio GUI.

While XAML provides drag and drop placement backwards compatibility through the Canvas Control, XAML Controls are only similar to Windows Forms Controls and are not one-to-one backwards compatible.  They perform similar functions and have a similar appearance, but the properties and methods are different enough to require remapping from one API to another.