Comment by ep103
8 years ago
What the heck can replace winforms and wpf apps though?
I've seen them promote at least 2 different technologies since the first time I heard WPF was dying, and both of them are dead already, so far as I can tell.
8 years ago
What the heck can replace winforms and wpf apps though?
I've seen them promote at least 2 different technologies since the first time I heard WPF was dying, and both of them are dead already, so far as I can tell.
UWP's XAML stack is alive and growing. The cool "Fluent" stuff like acrylic brushes and active focus highlights want you to use UWP XAML, and while shiny things aren't necessarily a reason to pick a dev stack, they do seem signs of health in that dev stack.
Apparently Xamarin.Forms, from the .NET Conf 2017 roadmap talks.
lol, so not only is the replacement technology none of the tech previously promised to replace wpf / winform, its a piece of tech that is still roadmapped?
Yeah, I don't think winform / wpf is going anywhere quite yet.
Xamarin.Forms is currently available for iOS, Android, UWP.
At .NET Conf 2017 they announced support for macOS, Linux and WPF. And demoed macOS and Linux current status.
While previously at BUILD 2017 they announced XAML Standard for interoperability between WPF, UWP and Xamarin.Forms.
Which kind of implies it is the way forward.