dotnet/wpf on Hacker News

…it only runs on Windows, a closed source operating system, so perhaps that is not so important. https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/2554 That said, there are cross platform, open source .NET UI frameworks out there, including one that is…

comment by MarkSweep · 2024-05-08 · in The search for easier safe systems programming

…not dead. It may not be the latest shiny thing, but it works, it is maintained (judging by https://github.com/dotnet/wpf or https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/wpf-on-dotnet-7/ ), and it is fully and officially supported on the modern…

comment by Kwpolska · 2023-03-17 · in Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic

…the problem with the glacial pace of development is reliance on manual testing. See this comment: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/discussions/7130#discussioncom... > Our primary goal is to ensure reduced turn-around-times for new PRs as well…

comment by MarkSweep · 2023-03-06 · in WPF Begins Its Long Goodbye

…now, apparently: * https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102341/0400/WPF-and-... * https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/1817 * https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-july-2021/#windows... > Windows Forms and WPF are now supported on…

comment by DaiPlusPlus · 2022-10-25 · in Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra

…different Windows themes? (on any OS!) Somehow I think it is not realized how amazing that is! [1] https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/blob/main/LICENSE.TXT [2] https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/tree/main/src/Microsoft.DotNet... [3]…

comment by 1wd · 2022-07-16 · in Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs

…are repeating that. WPF is not dead, it's fully supported and the project has a future roadmap. ( https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/blob/main/roadmap.md ) MAUI is not taking over, it's not even released yet . We only just got a release…

comment by viraptor · 2022-05-19 · in .NET 7 introduces Native AOT

> walled garden https://github.com/dotnet/wpf

comment by spixy · 2022-01-31 · in Don't forget Microsoft

…bandwidth to review most community PRs, and even the .NET team doesn't get responses to issues: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/3811 idk, I hope I'm wrong but they have been promising improvements for a while and I'll believe it when…

comment by ripley12 · 2022-01-02 · in Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (2005)

I won't speculate on things, but I will say that WPF is far from abandoned: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/blob/main/roadmap.md

comment by phillipcarter · 2022-01-02 · in Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (2005)

…design which is unrelated to Windows controls. Also, here’s a relevant GitHub issue https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/5793 which currently says “.NET 7.0 milestone”, however the 7.0 is scheduled for November 2022, i.e. in about 1 year,…

comment by Const-me · 2021-12-12 · in Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?

…most community PRs. Even the .NET team doesn't get responses to issues they raise on the WPF repo: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/3811 Adding to all that, WPF has a massive dependency on C++/CLI which means it cannot take advantage…

comment by ripley12 · 2021-12-03 · in I Rewrote WinUI to WPF

It is still actively developed, even if it doesn't get the same WinUI love. https://github.com/dotnet/wpf But yeah, having ramped down the team while beting the farm into WinRT wasn't the best idea. Still, just like VB 6 in Windows 10, WPF…

comment by pjmlp · 2021-09-07 · in The operating system: should there be one? (2013) [pdf]

Indees it seems to be a dead end. https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/48 Thanks for clarifying.

comment by DoingIsLearning · 2021-08-20 · in Performance Improvements in .NET 6

…It's a mess. A huge mess when developing a desktop UI application larger than a calculator. 1: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/2158 2: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/windows-forms-designer... > We are working closely with the…

comment by foepys · 2021-07-25 · in Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In Regedit.exe Tool

https://github.com/dotnet/wpf https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms https://github.com/dotnet/winforms >There isn't a single first-party desktop GUI framework left that is actively supported and developed. This is demonstrably false...

comment by dharmaturtle · 2021-06-18 · in .NET 6 Preview 5

Feel like contributing? https://github.com/dotnet/wpf

comment by pjmlp · 2020-11-05 · in Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux

…way down to the core. https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn (c#) https://github.com/dotnet/winforms (UI) https://github.com/dotnet/wpf (UI) https://github.com/dotnet/core (Foundation) I don't consider the Win32 API itself part of .NET or C# as…

comment by jarjoura · 2020-09-22 · in Swift on Windows

…Framework WinForms 'the win95-style UI' https://github.com/dotnet/winforms WPF 'the Vista-style UI' https://github.com/dotnet/wpf WinUI3 'the Modern-style UI' https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml Windows Communications Foundation…

comment by ClumsyPilot · 2019-11-21 · in Microsoft's “Love” of Linux

…any effort to port it as far as I know. WPF also had a few warts compared to Silverlight. [1]: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/

comment by zamalek · 2019-10-27 · in No XBL Components Left in Firefox

…since 2018: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingWPFWinFormsAndWinUI... Repositories: - WPF: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf - WinForms: https://github.com/dotnet/winformsblog-scottha - WinUI: https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-ui-xam…

comment by dgellow · 2019-07-01 · in SwiftWebUI

…VS UI tooling) Yes, also the UI technologies of WPF and Winforms are not getting ported to Linux: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/607#issuecomment-487360... It seems like the people embracing .NET Core are using it for writing backend…

comment by jasode · 2019-06-23 · in The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic

…probably cleaning up the code as best they can before making it open-source. Edit: The roadmap https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/blob/master/roadmap.md has a list what's currently available and what's still missing. Looks like by now the main…

comment by ygra · 2019-05-23 · in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

…like the title refers to recent source code commits, not the creation of the repo. Relevant links: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/pull/720 https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/pull/727

comment by dinglejungle · 2019-05-23 · in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

…until like mid-2019, as they didn't open-source everything yet :( Currently only has System.Xaml https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/blob/master/roadmap.md

comment by kevindqc · 2018-12-04 · in Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

…to accept contributions that provide cross-platform implementations for Windows Forms or WPF." https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/blob/master/Documentation/cont... Microsoft seems to be actually refusing to accept contributions that could make…

comment by mr_overalls · 2018-12-04 · in Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

The crossplatform issue already opened, discussed and closed: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/48

comment by hiccuphippo · 2018-12-04 · in Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI