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I get what you are saying... I'm just wondering why you feel burned by WPF. They've recently announced that it will be under active development for many years t

I get what you are saying... I'm just wondering why you feel burned by WPF. They've recently announced that it will be under active development for many years to come. Granted, they've announced new application models, but they haven't abandoned WPF. Akka.net has been developed as open source for longer and benefits greatly from that, but Orleans is open source and is being used by internal teams at MS...im not sure how that really compares to the uses of akka, but its not really "abandonware".

pjmlp 12y ago
Some .NET devs tend to separate WPF from the XAML stack. Personally I never though of myself as having WPF skills, rather XAML stack skills. All the concepts, XAML, bindings, MVVM, ... are applicable to WPF, Silverlight and Metro, even if the APIs are a little different.
- sudioStudio64 12y ago
  That's kind of what I have always thought would be a reasonable way to approach it...I'm not doing UI development,so I can't speak to the API diffs. Are there major gaps in functionality?
  - pjmlp 12y ago
    So far I have stayed on the WPF side, but from I have dabbled, some ways how bindings work and support for Blend interactions.
CmonDev 12y ago
Do you notice any major time gaps between WPF team blog posts here? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpf http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpf Like 4-year gap at the top? I have switched to ASP.NET Web API within that gap. That kind of silence killed any trust, that cannot be fixed by appointing some unknown manager and adding a couple of minor features. What is active development? Azure is in active development. Asp.NET is in active development. WPF is barely alive.
- sudioStudio64 12y ago
  People are still building software that makes real money using MFC and ATL. Maybe the feature set just matured? I'm not saying it doesn't need improvement...like Windows forms...people still make money with it. It's not like knowing XAML became useless...the new app model uses it as well.
  - CmonDev 12y ago
    People can make any money they want with any technology - even COBOL could work for business. As an employee I want very good money _and_ a broad set of opportunities (not some unicorn maintenance gigs). It's not like knowing XAML became useless... More like the whole world moved on to HTML (no matter how crappy it is and it is very). Where are the WPF Disciples? Where are the XAML Disciples? Where are dozens of XAML GitHub repos? Just the tumbleweed rolling across the desert...

pjmlp 12y ago

Some .NET devs tend to separate WPF from the XAML stack. Personally I never though of myself as having WPF skills, rather XAML stack skills. All the concepts, XAML, bindings, MVVM, ... are applicable to WPF, Silverlight and Metro, even if the APIs are a little different.

sudioStudio64 12y ago
That's kind of what I have always thought would be a reasonable way to approach it...I'm not doing UI development,so I can't speak to the API diffs. Are there major gaps in functionality?
- pjmlp 12y ago
  So far I have stayed on the WPF side, but from I have dabbled, some ways how bindings work and support for Blend interactions.

CmonDev 12y ago

Do you notice any major time gaps between WPF team blog posts here? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpf http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpf Like 4-year gap at the top? I have switched to ASP.NET Web API within that gap. That kind of silence killed any trust, that cannot be fixed by appointing some unknown manager and adding a couple of minor features. What is active development? Azure is in active development. Asp.NET is in active development. WPF is barely alive.

sudioStudio64 12y ago
People are still building software that makes real money using MFC and ATL. Maybe the feature set just matured? I'm not saying it doesn't need improvement...like Windows forms...people still make money with it. It's not like knowing XAML became useless...the new app model uses it as well.
- CmonDev 12y ago
  People can make any money they want with any technology - even COBOL could work for business. As an employee I want very good money _and_ a broad set of opportunities (not some unicorn maintenance gigs). It's not like knowing XAML became useless... More like the whole world moved on to HTML (no matter how crappy it is and it is very). Where are the WPF Disciples? Where are the XAML Disciples? Where are dozens of XAML GitHub repos? Just the tumbleweed rolling across the desert...