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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by vixalien on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:05AM (#29529686)
dotnet does not work with winui3 apps. I can't link the relevant stackoverflow answer from a microsoft dev. You can only use msbuild.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by oblio on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:35AM (#29529946)
That's pants on head stupid.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by sixothree on Sunday December 12, 2021 @05:53PM (#29534535)
How so exactly?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by pjc50 on Monday December 13, 2021 @04:02AM (#29537958)
They're two almost-identical pieces of software that parse almost-identical file formats. They may or may not share a codebase (five minutes on github hasn't clarified this), and in most cases you can substitute one for the other. Except this one. And the developers (of whom there are not many for WinUI!) forgot this use case because they're focused on building inside VS.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by oblio on Monday December 13, 2021 @02:18AM (#29537490)
The fact that 2 major Microsoft products don't integrate fully.
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