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I am going to echo other people's sentiments with this. I am very hesitant to even bother looking at this because it yet another UI platform for Windows. WPF,
by uk_programmer 7y ago
I am going to echo other people's sentiments with this. I am very hesitant to even bother looking at this because it yet another UI platform for Windows.
WPF, UWP, SilverLight, Metro. Am I forgetting any?
- mark-r 7y agoYes, you're forgetting Win32, which of course was an extension of the original Windows 16-bit API which I'm not sure had its own name.
- ben509 7y agoIf you sift through enough settings panels and preferences dialogs, you should see everything going back to DOS widgets in there.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoI am a long time desktop dev but my next project will either go web or qt. I am done with MS desktop toolkits.
- uk_programmer 7y agoI've been doing .NET for about 10 years and tbh outside of .NET core itself for building web applications and services (not just windows services) I am not massively interested.
- contextfree 7y agoUWP and "Metro" are the same thing, this is also basically the same thing just decoupled from the OS and with the Windows.* namespaces swapped out for Microsoft.* namespaces. So they've stuck to one reasonably coherent approach for the last eight years or so at least.
- Asooka 7y agoMFC and WTL. The latter still exists in a way, but its license may not be to your liking.
- uk_programmer 7y agoI was being rhetorical.