Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

dinglejungle wrote: post #2

Judging from the earliest Github issues, it's been there since late 2018. edit: As pointed out below, it looks like the title refers to recent source code commits, not the creation of the repo. Relevant links: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/pull/720 https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/pull/727

looking at the guts of the source code, looks like it's only just been committed ~13 hours ago. Various other things have been around for a while

Re: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

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Post by ygra » Thu, May 23, 2019, 9:48 AM UTC

dinglejungle wrote: post #2

Judging from the earliest Github issues, it's been there since late 2018. edit: As pointed out below, it looks like the title refers to recent source code commits, not the creation of the repo. Relevant links: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/pull/720 https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/pull/727

The first part was System.Xaml; the next one was the build infrastructure, I think. IIRC they said that by .NET Core 3 Preview 7 they want to have WPF completely on GitHub. Until then they're probably cleaning up the code as best they can before making it open-source.

Edit: The roadmap https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/blob/master/roadmap.md has a list what's currently available and what's still missing. Looks like by now the main parts (PresentationCore, PresentationFramework) are open-sourced as well.

Re: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

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Post by thebruce87m » Thu, May 23, 2019, 9:56 AM UTC

What are the implications of this? WPF in Linux?

Re: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

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Post by Kuraj » Thu, May 23, 2019, 9:59 AM UTC

WPF was fantastic for rich desktop applications. It makes me very happy that there is active effort from Microsoft to port it to .NET Core. If only it was cross platform...

Re: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

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Post by mariusmg » Thu, May 23, 2019, 10:03 AM UTC

thebruce87m wrote: post #5

What are the implications of this? WPF in Linux?

Neah, the internals are too Windows specific (Win32/DirectX) to be easely portable.

Maybe this will be the basis of a cross platform toolkit in the future , but right now MS doesn't seem to really care....

Re: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

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Post by ygra » Thu, May 23, 2019, 10:03 AM UTC

thebruce87m wrote: post #5

What are the implications of this? WPF in Linux?

No. This is explicitly not a goal at the moment. This is first and foremost the effort to make it open-source and available in .NET Core 3.

Re: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

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Post by gzimhelshani » Thu, May 23, 2019, 10:06 AM UTC

Kuraj wrote: post #6

WPF was fantastic for rich desktop applications. It makes me very happy that there is active effort from Microsoft to port it to .NET Core. If only it was cross platform...

.Net Core is cross platform. So, WPF is cross plaftorm now as well

Re: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

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Post by Crinus » Thu, May 23, 2019, 10:07 AM UTC

gzimhelshani wrote: post #9

Kuraj wrote: post #6

WPF was fantastic for rich desktop applications. It makes me very happy that there is active effort from Microsoft to port it to .NET Core. If only it was cross platform...

.Net Core is cross platform. So, WPF is cross plaftorm now as well

That is like saying C++ is cross platform so MFC is cross platform as well.

WPF relies on Windows specific functionality.