Lower Total Cost of Ownership

Windows Forms provides more than just a great way to build rich Windows-based applications. Developers also benefit from easy deployment capabilities and an integrated application security model. Windows Forms takes advantage of the versioning and deployment features of the Microsoft .NET platform to offer reduced deployment costs and higher application robustness over time. This significantly lowers the maintenance costs (total cost of ownership) for applications written in Windows Forms.

With a Windows Forms application, there is no need to deploy an application to the end user's desktop. Instead, a user can invoke the application simply by typing a URL in a browser. The application will download to the client machine, run in a secure execution environment, and remove itself upon completion.

For organizations that want to physically deploy an application to the desktop, there is no need to go through a resource-consuming installation process. Simply copy the application to the desktop and it will be ready to go. Windows Forms provides the flexibility to make applications available to end users in the way that is appropriate for your business.