Microsoft suspends development of touch-friendly UWP Office apps for Windows

Re:Microsoft suspends development of touch-friendly UWP Offi... by pjmlp on Sunday September 30, 2018 @07:56AM (#18105781)

I do Windows development since 3.0, currently maintaining a couple of Forms and WPF applications, the Forms are the hardest to maintain due event handling spaghetti code instead of proper MVVM with data binding, no use of Table/StackLayout components and still do background handling in BackgroundWorker classes.

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Re:Microsoft suspends development of touch-friendly UWP Offi... by GordonS on Sunday September 30, 2018 @09:36AM (#18106122)

How is the Visual Studio WPF designer these days? I worked on a WPF app around 5 years ago, and the form designer in Visual Studio was appalingly slow and quite buggy.

I also wasn't a big fan of XAML - no matter how much time I spent using it, it mostly seemed more difficult and awkward to get components where you wanted them than with WinForms.

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Re:Microsoft suspends development of touch-friendly UWP Offi... by pjmlp on Sunday September 30, 2018 @10:34AM (#18106324)

Quite good. I always do a mixture of Blend and Studio.

Never had any big problem that I can remember of since Visual Studio 2012.

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Re:Microsoft suspends development of touch-friendly UWP Offi... by NordSteve on Sunday September 30, 2018 @10:38AM (#18106336)

2012 had big internal architecture changes that did a lot to stabilize the designer.

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Re:Microsoft suspends development of touch-friendly UWP Offi... by maxxxxx on Sunday September 30, 2018 @10:10AM (#18106216)

The designer is fine now.

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