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Which one is their latest tech? Where does "WinUI" fit in? Is there a good, single starting point like SwiftUI's tutorial? The first hit brought me to "Host a

Which one is their latest tech? Where does "WinUI" fit in? Is there a good, single starting point like SwiftUI's tutorial? The first hit brought me to "Host a custom UWP control in a WPF app using XAML Islands" so there seems to be a distinction (and it implies WPF isn't the star anymore?) [0] [1] that I could find after a couple searches look way more complex than what the equivalent SwiftUI would be. <Button x:Name="button" Content="Hello, world!" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin = "152,293,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top"/> vs. Button(action: play) { Text("Hello, world!") // Don't need alignment etc. to produce identical output. } and ugh [2]: > If you need to embed any Unicode characters into the text, you can use the standard XML syntax. For example, to put the greeting in smart quotes, use: <Label Text="“Hello, XAML!”" /> I suggested emulating SwiftUI's syntax because it seems to be the most succinct. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-appsample-photo-lab/blob/master/PhotoLab/MainPage.xaml https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-appsample-photo-lab/blo... [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/create-a-hello-world-app-xaml-universal https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/cre... [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/xaml/xaml-basics/get-started-with-xaml https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/xaml/...

pjmlp 7y ago
You are looking at XAML, which underlines WPF, Silverlight, UWP/WinUI as the layout description language. You can also do it in pure .NET code without XML, hence why I specifically mentioned code first. So to pick on your example, var btn = new Button { Name = "Button", Content = "Hello, world!", HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left, }; btn.Click += (s, e) => { // handle click event }; Slightly more verbose, but one can still wrap those calls, or just pick Fabulous, https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous WinUI is the latest tech, just UWP as usual, still the future of Windows UI, now re-architected not to depend on a specific Windows 10 release, going back all the way to Falls Creator.
- Razengan 7y ago
  Thanks. Couldn't find a "code first" example before my irrational impatience with Microsoft kicked in :P I haven't touched C# in ages but that definitely looks odd compared to what I remember of it (like SwiftUI looks a little odd compared to Swift but not by this much.) My immediate thought: why capitalize the property names? Fabulous is comparatively verbose too but probably more idiomatic with F# (which I have no experience with.)

pjmlp 7y ago

You are looking at XAML, which underlines WPF, Silverlight, UWP/WinUI as the layout description language. You can also do it in pure .NET code without XML, hence why I specifically mentioned code first. So to pick on your example, var btn = new Button { Name = "Button", Content = "Hello, world!", HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left, }; btn.Click += (s, e) => { // handle click event }; Slightly more verbose, but one can still wrap those calls, or just pick Fabulous, https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous WinUI is the latest tech, just UWP as usual, still the future of Windows UI, now re-architected not to depend on a specific Windows 10 release, going back all the way to Falls Creator.

Razengan 7y ago
Thanks. Couldn't find a "code first" example before my irrational impatience with Microsoft kicked in :P I haven't touched C# in ages but that definitely looks odd compared to what I remember of it (like SwiftUI looks a little odd compared to Swift but not by this much.) My immediate thought: why capitalize the property names? Fabulous is comparatively verbose too but probably more idiomatic with F# (which I have no experience with.)