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Exactly the same feeling - even on Windows there really isn't anything like it - even from Microsoft. The amount of crap we have to wade through is crazy. I t

Exactly the same feeling - even on Windows there really isn't anything like it - even from Microsoft. The amount of crap we have to wade through is crazy. I tried to follow the suggestions. WPF, Silverlight, UPF then XAML islands? But it's mostly a mess / trash. I feel like Silverlight has been sunset. WinRT stuff is gone? WPF - not sure. Even weirder, they can't seem to get the designer working (this was what you could use to drag and drop control with way way back). It's like billions are getting flushed down the toilet over at Microsoft. I've also tried using their HTML solutions / a somewhat similar mess - not sure even they have had any clue what they are doing for last decade. Maybe the new hotness will be .NET MAUI?

meibo 5y ago
.NET MAUI is all of the same, but tied together with Xamarin and a new name. You probably won't find anything exciting there.
electroly 5y ago
> Exactly the same feeling - even on Windows there really isn't anything like it - even from Microsoft. WinForms itself is still around to this day, and Microsoft is actively updating and supporting it on the latest .NET versions. You can just pretend that none of that other stuff ever happened. I've been writing WinForms apps for 20 years, since the initial Visual Studio .NET beta. It still has that same high level of productivity that Visual Basic did.