Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by WDCDev on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:55PM (#9461706)

WPF is, by far, the most pleasant and flexible thick client, windowing system out there. XAML is a bit verbose, but the binding capabilities combined with an open source MVVM framework like Caliburn allow you to build extremely flexible UIs.

WPF also abstracts control behavior away from presentation and allows you to easily and quickly extend the base set of controls to do whatever you want to.

After building multiple thick client applications using VB6, MFC, Swign, Winforms and WPF, WPF exceeds all of these, by far, in flexibility and maintainability.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by _random_ on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @06:02PM (#9462137)

Also <grid> (as a sane alternative to <div class="table">) where you can actually align stuff exactly the way you want.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by nailer on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @06:38PM (#9462296)

You know about flex box right?

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by antonmaju on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @11:05PM (#9463114)

Microsoft should have bought Qt when they acquired Nokia. So they have an alternative for cross platform desktop development.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by 0xFFC on Thursday April 30, 2015 @05:46AM (#9464094)

This makes sense , Microsoft does not support C for user space development , and Qt/C++ is good way to push C out from user space development in all platform's .

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by Maakuth on Thursday April 30, 2015 @07:06AM (#9464298)

It wasn't there anymore, Nokia sold it's Qt business to Digia quite soon after the 2011 announcement of Windows Phone strategy.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by jaked89 on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @05:47PM (#9462047)

I find the binding part and MVVM stuff rubbish.

For me, the real value is composition flexibility.

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