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by ripley12 5y ago
A huge part of .NET's value proposition is that you can do things that aren't possible inside the browser sandbox, and it's nice to be able to build UIs on top of that. I don't care if my UI ultimately gets rendered by a
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by ripley12 5y ago
It's somewhat early days, but workable. The search term you probably want is "Blazor Desktop". It's basically Blazor Server but served to a local webview instead of a remote client. .NET 6 will have some convenient ways
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by ripley12 5y ago
Agreed that OmniSharp is inexplicably terrible. But Rider is a very good cross-platform alternative.
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That’s on the Windows team, not the .NET team.
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For what it’s worth, WPF and WinUI are owned by the Windows team not .NET. I suspect it’s less “not a priority” and more “building a good cross-platform UI framework is a colossal amount of work”.
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Blazor Desktop makes a lot of sense to me. Basically: Blazor Server is getting pretty good and it’s easy to serve it up to a local webview so why not make that an officially supported use case?
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by ripley12 5y ago
It will be interesting to see how well trimming and AOT (closely related technologies) turn out. I’ve already been able to build useful trimmed self-contained CLI apps with .NET 5 and 6, and based on what I’ve seen of NativeAOT I think it’d
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by ripley12 5y ago
There has been more churn than usual during+following the .NET Framework -> .NET Core migration. Some of it was necessary due to the migration, some of it is making up for lost time after being tied to Windows (and very constrained in th
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by ripley12 5y ago
Yes, it's a truly fantastic book for beginners and veterans alike. It's too big for most people to read cover to cover, but as a reference book it's invaluable (and much better than C# in Depth IMO). It covers just about ever
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by ripley12 5y ago
I will, thanks! Am I correct in thinking that PGO documentation will be coming later as part of the official release? Searching for DOTNET_TieredPGO (mentioned in Stephen's post) doesn't turn up much. Might give it a spin on Previ
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These posts are a big highlight of every .NET release, you can tell Stephen Toub puts a ton of work into them. Can't wait to give the profile-guided optimization a try.
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I spent a year working on GUI applications. It forced me to learn much more about threading+asynchrony+concurrency (stay off the UI thread!) than 8 years of working on back-end services did, and now a lot of concepts that were previously in
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by ripley12 5y ago
I spent a year working on GUI applications. It forced me to learn more about threading, asynchrony, and concurrency than I had in 8 years of working on back-end services. after a long time mostly working on back-end code. It forced me to gr
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by ripley12 5y ago
I think that’s an unfair characterization of the Terminal issue you linked, and the Terminal developers in general. If you follow the Terminal repo it is clear that the devs are not fans of the “modern” Windows technologies they are forced
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There’s a real problem here: those are still the books to read if you really want to understand Windows. They’re great books but they’re old, often out of print, and the onus is on the reader to distinguish outdated info from still-releva
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by ripley12 5y ago
Have you ever visited Kiwi Farms? The first thing you’ll notice is all the threads and subforums dedicated to harassing specific individuals - many with tens of thousands of messages. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be targeted by a horde
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by ripley12 5y ago
Not yet. WebView2 is not available on Mac+Linux yet (but that’s coming).
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Perhaps “people need a place to live” would have been a better way to phrase that. Any solutions to North America’s urban planning woes will take decades, if they happen at all. I don’t fault anyone who can’t wait that long.
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by ripley12 5y ago
That doesn’t seem odd to me. People do what’s best for them, and even if they underatand the dysfunction of North American urban planning well they’re not in a position to fix it.
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by ripley12 5y ago
Oh, that's helpful thanks. I found that post earlier but didn't realize it lists new features (the "Key features" section is 3 pages down for me, I didn't even realize it was there).
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by ripley12 5y ago
This feels like it was written by marketing, for marketing. I just want to know what's new, but I have to wade through a bunch of prose about how "GitLab has placed strongly in several market reports" and "The DevOps Res
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by ripley12 5y ago
Yeah, MSIX is a mess and I'm not surprised by the low uptake. It's evolved from the ultra-locked-down AppX days slowly and in a very messy way; documentation is often out of date/incomplete, VS tooling is buggy, and the kicke
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by ripley12 5y ago
VS doesn't currently run on ARM (which sucks, but that's definitely a very high priority for the team; I suspect the recent 64-bit migration is setting the stage for ARM support), so there isn't much point in speccing it to r
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by ripley12 5y ago
I mostly agree that that's the current state of things, but I'm a little more optimistic about the future. The software support for ARM in Windows has taken big leaps and bounds in the last ~6 months; this, the more general x64 em
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I spent some time setting this up yesterday. Seems like an updated version of Windows IoT Core (based off Windows 11) that can be customized for OEM use. It looks like the built images can only run UWP apps, Edge, and Win32 apps in a Hyper-
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by ripley12 5y ago
Outlook is switching to WebView2-based UI like this soon. As for Excel, here's its PM saying "When you look at the overall allocation of resources on the team, a huge percentage is working on web app improvements" https:&#x2
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I’d love to see this too, not super confident it will happen anytime soon though. Steve Lee (PowerShell PM) has commented on this fairly recently: https://twitter.com/Steve_MSFT/status/1351535477749235719?s=... “I
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.NET Native is effectively dead (critical fixes only) and the .NET team is focusing on NativeAOT instead. They’ve done a very poor job of communicating it but that’s what I’ve gathered from various MS employees.
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I found this talk incredibly useful as a newbie, and I’m looking forward to playing with the sample code. I’ve been in a “don’t understand the GPU compute landscape well enough to decide what to get started on” limbo for a while, and this t
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by ripley12 5y ago
I don’t particularly expect WinUI 3 to take off, sadly. I agree that it’s disappointing. The team still has a lot of work to do; unpackaged applications still aren’t supported, for one. And even once it’s production-ready (next year?), I’

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