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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by jimmcslim on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:09PM (#11171331)
Yes, Silverlight has been abandoned.

I would argue that Winforms is now a mature technology and requires little upkeep, but it is still a part of the stack.

WPF development has slowed significantly, but still proceeds.

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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by maxxxxx on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:45PM (#11171553)
None of these are good technologies if you want to stay up-to-date. You could also write your site in IE6 compatible HTML which was quite mature but that seems a really bad idea.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by KirinDave on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:08PM (#11172330)
That's not a reasonable comparison at all. Winforms is maintained. IE6 is explicitly deprecated.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by douche on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:54AM (#11175726)
And WinForms is never really going to go away as long as Windows is still built around the Win32 API.
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