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Re:How Windows Everywhere finally happened by voltagex_ on Sunday May 22, 2016 @10:21PM (#11751383)
Do you use XAML? What do you think of it? I've never really been able to get my head around it - although my professional projects are mostly ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI so I've had no real pressing need to learn it.

Am I the only one who still likes Windows Forms?

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Re:How Windows Everywhere finally happened by pjmlp on Monday May 23, 2016 @01:24AM (#11752057)
It has the developer sanity that web development lacks with its Frankenstein mixture of HTML, CSS, JavaScript to make <div/> behave like native widgets.

Have you ever tried to use any web design tool capable of matching Blend for UI design?

XAML is what web could have become if XHTML and its sublanguages had been adopted properly.

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Re:How Windows Everywhere finally happened by Const-me on Monday May 23, 2016 @01:01AM (#11751988)
When I don’t care about the UI design, just need some GUI that works — yes, I still like Windows Forms.

When I have professionally-made UI design on input, and need to make GPU-rendered GUI — XAML is the best technology with the competitors far behind.

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