Xamarin Forms: it works

Re:Xamarin Forms: it works by intellisense on Friday September 21, 2018 @09:09AM (#18039392)

Well Microsoft is not using Xamarin for any of their cross platform apps. Why should we?

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Re:Xamarin Forms: it works by ivm on Friday September 21, 2018 @10:53AM (#18040113)

Microsoft News is made with it: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1009433494840336384

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Re:Xamarin Forms: it works by maxxxxx on Friday September 21, 2018 @10:53AM (#18040112)

That's actually a weird thing with a lot of MS tech, especially .NET desktop development. They barely used Winforms themselves, WPF got only used in Visual Studio 2010 (and made it slow and buggy for the first releases). They put out stuff for developers but don't use it themselves.

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Re:Xamarin Forms: it works by ygra on Friday September 21, 2018 @12:39PM (#18040892)

WPF has also been used for PowerShell ISE, Windows Live Writer, ABC a bunch of other things. A problem with adopting Windows forms or WPF internally is probably that no Windows core component or application could depend on .NET or non-system libraries, and a lot of applications are older than .NET and certainly wouldn't be rewritten.

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Re:Xamarin Forms: it works by zerr on Friday September 21, 2018 @12:39PM (#18040893)

Yes, same goes for MFC.

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Re:Xamarin Forms: it works by maxxxxx on Friday September 21, 2018 @03:44PM (#18042139)

Very true. Does anyone know how the situation is with Apple? Do they use the libraries they have developers work with?

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