throwawaywindev

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   by throwawaywindev 7y ago

   Windows.UI.Composition makes the UWP UI toolkit way better than anything that came before it. https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/09/16/animations...
2. 32.▲
   by throwawaywindev 7y ago

   Coincidentally office is adopting more and more UWP controls in their Win32 app using these publicly available interop technologies.
3. 33.▲
   by throwawaywindev 7y ago

   New stuff is UWP or HTML. Old stuff is mix of GDI and internal UI frameworks.
4. 34.▲
   by throwawaywindev 8y ago

   The problem is the signal to noise ratio is getting so bad that you don’t know what information to trust.
5. 35.▲
   by throwawaywindev 8y ago

   The WiFi thing is made more complicated by how the Apple Watch works. It uses an adhoc WiFi connection to your iPhone, so you don’t want the toggle to disable that. And it would be confusing to have different behavior depending on whether o
6. 36.▲
   by throwawaywindev 8y ago

   Actually most of the “new” (last three years) UWP Windows 10 UI is C++, and there is more JavaScript/HTML than .NET Native. The Xbox dashboard is .NET Native though and all of us on the Windows UI team are jealous. The problem that we