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Re:XMLUI by gmueckl on Sunday July 20, 2025 @03:16PM (#44628391)
I am not sure whether calling WPF a huge failure is justified. It works extremely well when everything is adaptable to its MVC-adjcent MVVM design pattern. In this case it's almost child's play to build rich and conplex GUIs that keep in sync with internal state.

Microsoft dropped the ball when they rewrote WPF in incompatible forms for the web (Silverlight) and Windows Phone (WinUI) shortly after releasing WPF itself. That ruined developer trust for their GUI library longevity.

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Re:XMLUI by rossant on Monday July 21, 2025 @02:57AM (#44632452)
I really liked WPF for Windows Phone back then. The tooling was great.

I bought a massive 1000+ page book, "Pro WPF in C# 2010," one day. I also had to buy "Home Maintenance For Dummies" the same day. The bookstore cashier laughed at me.

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Re:XMLUI by int_19h on Monday July 21, 2025 @03:47PM (#44639640)
The irony is that WPF itself never went away, and receives support and even occasional minor new features even to this day on .NET Core.

Much like WinForms, there are still many internal line-of-business apps written in it decades ago that are just happily chugging along, ignoring all the post-Silverlight churn in Microsoft dev story.

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