UWP isn’t dead??? It was demoed at build....
Many naysayers love to use any misinformation to spread FUD, although it is clear from BUILD and MSDN, where all is going.
Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32
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Re: Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32
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I gave up on chasing every new shiny thing MS produces. Winforms work great. They are stable - there are a million packages for it out there and it can work with the version of the framework that's installed with every copy of Windows.
I have seen systems developed over decades and they are a complete mess, the worst had these components: - vb com+ - c++ dcom - c++ mfc - .net 1.1 winform - .net 4 - wpf - delphi Microsoft causes this by events like build which go “we are betting everything on x” then the year later it is “x was cool but look at xx” Gahhhhhh
VB6 forms designer was actually really good. I don't there is still anything that rivals it in terms of stability, customization, speed and round-tripping.
Re: Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32
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Windows Terminal will be distributed on Store, and so do new Edge. I don't know why people are calling it dead... And they announced that WinUI 3.0 will open source all built-in XAML controls (they are even rewritten some to be on top of Composition because of that), will also open the XAML Stack and Composition. This is a big deal.
Neither old or new Edge is being distributed on Store. Old one gets bugfixes from Windows update and new features come with the big biannual Windows updates. New one uses it's own updater. They also removed ability to install Office from store.
It's coming once it hits final release. :)
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Re: Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32
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WinUI is actually open source, and WinUI 3.0 will open-source all XAML controls, XAML Stack and Composition.
But when will MS lose interest in this too and do something else? I don’t think it can live as open source without a lot of MS support.
Well, this also work for everything MSFT launches. Not exclusive to UWP or anything.