Since Windows Forms was open sourced in late 2018, and ported to .NET Core, both the team and our external contributors have been busy fixing old bugs and adding new features. In this post we are going to talk about what’s new in Windows Forms runtime in .NET 5.0.

Windows controls additions and enhancements

Perhaps the most exciting thing about Windows Forms today is the vibrant and engaged community we have on GitHub. Many of the new features and enhancements have been either suggested by, or even fully implemented by our community members. In the .NET 5.0 timeframe we have accepted and merged over 900 pull-request with over 70% of those PRs coming from our community. Massive shoutouts to @hughbe, @gpetrou, @weltkante, @kpreisser and many, many others who helped us improve Windows Forms runtime.

Here are a few examples of the contributions we have received from the community.

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