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Any tips on how to create a UI like blizzard/origin/steam game clients using WinForms?

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    Hi Guys any tips on how to create UI's similar to these using WinForms? Origin Game Client[^] Steam Game Client[^] Blizzard Game Client[^]

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      Hi Guys any tips on how to create UI's similar to these using WinForms? Origin Game Client[^] Steam Game Client[^] Blizzard Game Client[^]

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      Windows Forms do not really lend themselves too well to such design. Try WPF which offers much more flexibility of layout.

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        Hi Guys any tips on how to create UI's similar to these using WinForms? Origin Game Client[^] Steam Game Client[^] Blizzard Game Client[^]

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        You GDI things on the Device Contexts provided by the forms. I personally prefer this approach to WPF.

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