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Not sure if WPF is a good fit for this this discussion about abandoning APIs especially not in the way as mentioned by the OP (i.e. ditching it all together): a

by stinos 8y ago

Not sure if WPF is a good fit for this this discussion about abandoning APIs especially not in the way as mentioned by the OP (i.e. ditching it all together): as fas as I'm aware it is still supported in the very latest versions of the build tools and the applications built with it just run on the supported OS for those tools (didn't check recently but about a year ago I could still get a newly built WPF application running on Windows XP). Sure it's not actively being developped anymore, but it's still there and still works.

Razengan 8y ago
WPF was presented and touted as the future of the Windows GUI (and beyond.) It was barely dogfooded at all by Microsoft themselves and the future we got instead was the bland, inferior “Metro” experience.
- Illniyar 8y ago
  WPF was released in 2006, before the original iPhone. it has been actively developed and pushed for close to 10 years. WPF was used in Visual Studio.
  - Razengan 8y ago
    I'm aware it was used in Visual Studio, and oh, the Expression Studio suite [0] – another discontinued line of great products, for making stuff with WPF – but that's all I can remember. Not even Calculator or Notepad used WPF as far as I know, which would have been the simplest apps to port and could have bolstered developer confidence in the technology (the point of this whole discussion.) And why is it "was"; does VS now not use WPF? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Studio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Studio
    - Razengan 8y ago
      Correction: Apparently most parts of Expression Studio have been assimilated into Visual Studio, but the point remains: It decreased developer confidence when it was discontinued and nothing was immediately announced as a replacement.
  - maxxxxx 8y ago
    WPF has only been tweaked a little here and there since around 2010 or 2012. Then they started pushing Silverlight and WinRT. I remember distinctly the moment around 2012 when we realized that WPF is pretty much dead in the sense that nothing new will be coming..

by stinos 8y ago

Razengan 8y ago

WPF was presented and touted as the future of the Windows GUI (and beyond.) It was barely dogfooded at all by Microsoft themselves and the future we got instead was the bland, inferior “Metro” experience.

Illniyar 8y ago
WPF was released in 2006, before the original iPhone. it has been actively developed and pushed for close to 10 years. WPF was used in Visual Studio.
- Razengan 8y ago
  I'm aware it was used in Visual Studio, and oh, the Expression Studio suite [0] – another discontinued line of great products, for making stuff with WPF – but that's all I can remember. Not even Calculator or Notepad used WPF as far as I know, which would have been the simplest apps to port and could have bolstered developer confidence in the technology (the point of this whole discussion.) And why is it "was"; does VS now not use WPF? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Studio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Studio
  - Razengan 8y ago
    Correction: Apparently most parts of Expression Studio have been assimilated into Visual Studio, but the point remains: It decreased developer confidence when it was discontinued and nothing was immediately announced as a replacement.
- maxxxxx 8y ago
  WPF has only been tweaked a little here and there since around 2010 or 2012. Then they started pushing Silverlight and WinRT. I remember distinctly the moment around 2012 when we realized that WPF is pretty much dead in the sense that nothing new will be coming..