DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTER GAMES AND GUI APPLICATIONS USING THE WINDOWS FORMS TECHNOLOGY

This paper discusses Windows Forms technology as an effective and easy to use technology of de¬ve¬loping computer games and GUI applications. Our main goal is to explain how Windows Forms can be used to improve the level of interaction and build possible skill in application development. We eva¬luate the effectiveness of using Windows Forms-based applications in fostering the formal know¬ledge of the software design principles and problem solving of users, and the informal skills, that is, computer literacy. Keywords: Windows Forms, GUI applications, game development, .NET framework, desktop appli¬cations, event-driven programming, software engineering.