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Right-click, Inspect Element. Web development tools have become fantastic UI debugging tools. You can inspect live running UI and tweak it in real time without
by pornel 5y ago
Right-click, Inspect Element.
Web development tools have become fantastic UI debugging tools. You can inspect live running UI and tweak it in real time without a rebuild.
CSS is very powerful, and it's relatively easy to build complex layouts with animations. People joke how it's impossible to center things, but CSS has matured beyond that (IE is dead).
- int_19h 5y agoWPF had the equivalent of "inspect element" 10 years ago. You don't need HTML for that, you just need good tooling.
- pornel 5y agoI must admit, I haven't been following Windows toolkits since MFC. I've only heard about WPF in the context of dead Longhorn features. Isn't it deprecated in favor of WinUI or whatever replaced Metro?
- int_19h 5y agoOfficially, it isn't (e.g. it got ported to .NET Core). De facto, it is, but it still works just fine, as do WinForms, and all the tooling support is still there. That said, I've mentioned WPF mostly because that's what I'm personally familiar with. The same inspector-type tooling is available for newer XAML-based frameworks, as well: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/xaml-tools/inspect-xaml-properties-while-debugging https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/xaml-tools/ins...