Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?

Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by syshum on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:50AM (#29530056)

Microsoft wants to sell Visual Studio, this is why Visual Studio Code will never get a GUi Designer, or have easy compile options for C#.

Hell just recently they were trying to take away hot reload to keep that feature as a paid feature only part of VS

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by MikusR on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:39PM (#29533903)

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by syshum on Sunday December 12, 2021 @05:26PM (#29534322)

I am aware of the community edition, which the most recent versions have a VERY restrictive license on the acceptable uses for the community edition

The fact this edition exists does not change my point, or really add anything of value to the conversation

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by dleslie on Sunday December 12, 2021 @12:37PM (#29531610)

Ah yes, VS' hot reload that insists on popping up a dialog every time a file changes. Garbage.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by pjmlp on Sunday December 12, 2021 @01:15PM (#29532028)

Visual Studio Code only needs to be good enough for a Cloud IDE kind of scenario for Azure workloads (it started that way as Monaco anyway), anything beyond that is a gift so to speak.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by gusennan on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:02AM (#29530146)

That's true.

I only really started liking .NET when I stopped using visual studio a few years ago.

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