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> Did they just lose their minds there? Hire a bunch of idiots caught up in fads instead of folks who've been around for a bit. No, they just took the focus of
by EMM_386 5y ago
> Did they just lose their minds there? Hire a bunch of idiots caught up in fads instead of folks who've been around for a bit.
No, they just took the focus off the Windows UI.
They went cross-platform with .Net Core, which enables it to run in the cloud on Linux boxes. This was the focus.
I hope they come back around to a proper .Net WinForms designer under .Net Core, but for now the full framework can be run and will be supported. There are a massive number of WinForm applications in use. I was recently maintaining a massive 20-year-old .Net WinForms application, it still runs fine.
- lbriner 5y agoIt is funny how much they have strived for one platform to rule them all when it would have been easier and cheaper just to maintain windows, web and mobile separately and kept the frameworks suited to their particular platform.
- whoknowswhat11 5y agoI actually think they could have gotten winforms x-platform by now if they'd tried. Or some kind of x-platform story if they wanted. The endless other crap has just eaten dev time like crazy.