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That's a good example. Where is the property grid in WPF, a component that is central to Visual Studio's UI.
by tonyedgecombe 5y ago
That's a good example. Where is the property grid in WPF, a component that is central to Visual Studio's UI.
- int_19h 5y agoVisual Studio has bits and pieces written in pretty much all UI frameworks that Microsoft ever had - at some point there were even HTAs there, not sure if that's still the case. Some bits get rewritten, like the main window chrome / menus / toolbars (all WPF now). Some do not. That said, as I recall, the property editor that you get when editing WPF controls and forms is itself WPF these days. But anyway, my point is that it was hardly "abandoned at birth", given that WPF was originally released with .NET 3.0 in 2006, while the first version of VS to get WPF UI was VS 2010 - and more was rewritten since then. Even if no new VS components are ever going to be written in it, maintaining the existing ones makes it necessary to maintain WPF to some bare minimum standard. (The same goes for WinForms and other UI stacks that VS still uses in places.)
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoVisual Studio might well have used it but the point was what happened to WPF since it was released. Almost nothing. It wasn't complete when it was launched and has never really been updated in a significant way.