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Somewhat offtopic, but related - Any else remember Yahoo Messenger (new beta) being an evangelist for WPF in the mainstream? Which didn't pan out iirc, infact d
by sitepodmatt 8y ago
Somewhat offtopic, but related - Any else remember Yahoo Messenger (new beta) being an evangelist for WPF in the mainstream? Which didn't pan out iirc, infact did any mainstream commercials apps, thus excluding internal LOBs launch, even make it on to WPF? ~2009
- maxxxxx 8y agoVisual Studio started using WPF from 2010 on. It turned out not to be an exactly convincing example. It was slower than VS 2008 and lost a ton of features. Can't think of any other commercial app. MS certainly didn't bother porting anything to WPF.
- setquk 8y agoDon’t forget that UWP is the bastard child of WPF
- maxxxxx 8y agoAnd Silverlight and WinRT. I still don't understand why they couldn't keep developing WPF instead of shipping a new framework every 2 years.
- setquk 8y agoTypical MS roadmap schizophrenia. Honestly I maintain some WPF hanging out of the side of a product and I wish I had built it in winforms now.
- bunderbunder 8y agoPessimistic answer: Ever seen that joke graphic with the org charts of various tech companies, where Microsoft's is a bunch of nodes with little hands sticking out and pointing guns at each other? WPF was a product of the .NET team. WinRT was owned by the Windows team. The two have had a rivalry that's famous for producing collateral damage. Optimistic answer: WinRT was designed to be consumable from many languages and platforms, not just .NET. They preserved as much as they could (e.g., xaml), but you can't rewrite the core of a thing without a few growing pains.