Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion

Re:Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion by avinium on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @08:09PM (#16164587)

If anyone from MS is reading this, please consider throwing some support behind WPF. It's actually a very reasonable framework for native development, and with a few updates here and there, would be competitive (in terms of developer-hours) with the latest JS frameworks.

I doubt that will happen, as MS is seemingly embracing the whole web-services/HTML/JS model. VS Code might be the nail in the coffin - possibly an Electron test-case to see if the entire VS proper can be ported over.

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Re:Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion by taspeotis on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:31AM (#16167083)

There's a glimmer of hope over here [1]. Microsoft updated the XAML Designer. The new designer has support for UWP but note the comments. In particular "WPF [support] will be shipped sometime after the UWP Designer has been released and stabilized."

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/09/11/a-s...

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Re:Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion by mattmanser on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:46AM (#16166921)

I remember when I learnt Silverlight it had a huge learning curve because Xaml takes a while to wrap your head around.

Given that, I can't really see it ever becoming competitive.

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Re:Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion by martinsuchan on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:01AM (#16166039)

Adding Compiled Bindings to WPF could be a nice start.

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Re:Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion by pjmlp on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:17AM (#16165867)

Future of WPF is UWP.

WPF is for pre-Windows 10 desktops.

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