Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF

Re:Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF by amaks on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @04:18PM (#8461451)

WPF is another victim in ever changing technological landscape in Microsoft. Who uses or even remembers these days ATL/WTL, MFC, OLE DB, ADO, DAO, ODBC etc. etc.?

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Re:Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF by fleitz on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @04:45PM (#8461591)

Now you know why MSFT has the largest developer community in the world.

There are endless lists of technologies that do the exact same thing.

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Re:Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF by pjmlp on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @06:08PM (#8462102)

Who uses or even remembers these days QuickDraw, QuickDraw 3D, WebObjects, Carbon, Qt for Java, Java Bridge, Nettalk, Hypercard, NewtonScript, etc

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Re:Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF by mpthrapp on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @05:00PM (#8461694)

I still use ADO and ODBC (oh, and the BDE, remember that one?) on a regular basis. I wish I didn't, but I do.

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Re:Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF by dvere on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @05:21PM (#8461844)

Raises hand, still have a VM with Delphi 7 that is opened once a week or so....

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Re:Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF by mpthrapp on Thursday October 16, 2014 @12:58PM (#8465977)

Only once a week? Can I have your job, please? I get to use that and 5 on a daily basis.

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Re:Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF by _random_ on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @04:57PM (#8461670)

Will anyone be mad enough to adopt the next living corpse of tomorrow - WinJS?

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