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Shit, last time I was on Windows, WPF was the new hotness. What is the latest thing?

• ygra 10y ago
  UWP, I guess. It's still similar enough from what I've seen, but I haven't used it yet. And WPF is still by far the best UI framework I've ever used.
  • tonyedgecombe 10y ago
    Windows 10 only rules it out for me, also I think it might be tied to the Windows store although I'm not absolutely sure.
    • Kipters 10y ago
      Absolutely not tied to the Store, you can distribute your appx packages any way you want and the users can install them with a double click. The only requirement is that the packages must be signed, so you have to buy a codesigning certificate or ask your users to install your self-signed certificate. The app also doesn't have to be an UWP app: you can wrap bog-standard desktop applications (even Electron apps), HTML/JS apps (with direct access to UWP APIs) or even nothing: your manifest can just point to your live site, that can check if it's running in this context and then use UWP APIs, those are called "hosted web apps".