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The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.

23 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 7 stories, 16 comments · first 2020-05-19 · latest 2025-05-11

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  1. …3.0 only if one is a Microsoft employee. https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/issues https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT/issues https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/commits/maste…
    comment by pjmlp · 2025-05-11 · in Lazarus Release 4.0
  2. …of bugs and complaints on their respective repos, https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/ And then compare with Project Reunion vision from 2021, and…
    comment by pjmlp · 2024-07-01 · in Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
  3. …SDK) back in 2021, just before Windows 11's release, they decided to double-down on COM. Like hard. https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/blob/main/docs/fa... > Practically speaking, any language & runtime that can handle COM objects…
    comment by miffy900 · 2024-05-15 · in The power of interoperability: Why objects are inevitable (2013) [pdf]
  4. ….. broken? The backward compatibility story is a disaster: you can get stuck in the UWP sandbox https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/issues/1780 What's the big Microsoft WinUI3 flagship app, then? Something people are actually using?…
    comment by pjc50 · 2023-09-12 · in Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
  5. …future, and check the issues on the following repos: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT
    comment by pjmlp · 2023-06-24 · in Leaked Microsoft poll shows fewer employees have confidence in leadership
  6. …context switching involved, but it's architectural, and so the voice recorder was never fixed. https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/issues/8 "The challenge here is simply that listing the StorageItems in a StorageFolder is incredibly…
    comment by mike_hearn · 2022-09-30 · in Why modern software is slow
  7. If someone wants to have some popcorns, this is how it is being taken over at AppSDK github, https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/discussions/1615 My arguing for UWP has been long, time to assume defeat and eat my hat, I really don't…
    comment by pjmlp · 2021-10-20 · in Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP – Thurrott.com
  8. …DirectX team is really deep into C++ mindset and nothing else, no wonder it belongs to WinDev side. https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/issues/14#issueco...
    comment by pjmlp · 2021-07-12 · in A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution
  9. Well, it is still the future, because UWP is also COM vNext, I know Microsoft marketing sucks. https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion
    comment by pjmlp · 2021-04-09 · in A Brief F# Exploration
  10. WinRT is not going anywhere. What more, it's usable from classic Win32 apps these days. https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion
    comment by int_19h · 2021-01-23 · in Microsoft Opens Up Old Win32 APIs to C# and Rust
  11. …sandboxing Win32 apps instead. https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/fo... https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion My biggest grip with .NET, since 2001 alphas for MSFT partners, was not being AOT like Delphi (NGEN…
    comment by pjmlp · 2020-11-01 · in Goodbye, Native Apps
  12. …not to do just fine. [1] - https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10x/238014/windows-... [2] - https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion/issues
    comment by pjmlp · 2020-08-31 · in Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
  13. It seems like they want to consolidate all those APIs with Project Reunion https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion So I'm hoping this improved things in the future.
    comment by giancarlostoro · 2020-06-01 · in mDNS, Avahi and Docker non-root containers
  14. …https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli [1] https://mybuild.microsoft.com [2] https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion [3] https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/19/microsofts-project-reunio...
    comment by aspenmayer · 2020-05-19 · in Microsoft Project Reunion: an evolution of the Windows developer platform
  15. …https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli [1] https://mybuild.microsoft.com [2] https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion [3] https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/19/microsofts-project-reunio...
    comment by aspenmayer · 2020-05-19 · in Microsoft Project Reunion: an evolution of the Windows developer platform
  16. …like NuGet, and it brings new WinUI 3 and WebView2 releases.' [1] https://mybuild.microsoft.com [2] https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion
    comment by aspenmayer · 2020-05-19 · in Microsoft’s Project Reunion bridges Win32 and UWP divide, again