microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml on Hacker News

…over the place. https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/microsofts-window... And yes, it sucks, https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/1...

comment by pjmlp · 2026-07-06 · in Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)

…project / experiment. I hate this problem [0] so I went down a rabbit hole trying to solve it. https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/5148

comment by PKop · 2026-04-12 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

…https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40843252 Then check the feedback on the latest community call, https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/1...

comment by pjmlp · 2025-11-18 · in Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

Anything related to WinUI is a bad joke. Have fun following the discussions and amount of bugs, https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml That C++ support that WinUI team marketing keeps talking about relies on a framework that is no…

comment by pjmlp · 2025-11-07 · in A Note on Fil-C

…This is not the sentiment that surrounds a platform that has a lot of chips betting on it. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/9...

comment by PKop · 2025-08-12 · in GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

….NET developers, there is a huge performance penalty getting or setting any property on control. https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/1633#i...

comment by danzk · 2025-08-04 · in Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework

The source is already available (albeit not buildable). See https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml

comment by cshokie · 2025-08-02 · in Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework

…better go with Avalonia, Uno, WPF, Windows Forms, WinUI 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/is…

comment by pjmlp · 2025-05-11 · in Lazarus Release 4.0

…replicable crashes with drag and drop, the community calls are disappearing, and more. [1] - https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/5917

comment by somenameforme · 2024-07-01 · in Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful

…the whole team fired. Finally, check the amount 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…

comment by pjmlp · 2024-07-01 · in Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful

…https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2024/06/03/micros... https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/9...

comment by pjmlp · 2024-06-19 · in ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from NT architecture

ahem https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/9414 https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/9410#i...

comment by lenkite · 2024-05-22 · in Swift Tooling: Windows Edition

Ignore all the talk about WinUI 3.0 being the 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…

comment by pjmlp · 2023-06-24 · in Leaked Microsoft poll shows fewer employees have confidence in leadership

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/2751#i...

comment by n8cpdx · 2023-05-27 · in Fluent 2 Design System

…create will ever get to a working state, they just don't have the resources. I have given up. [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/8141

comment by mastax · 2023-05-24 · in Win32 App Isolation

Depends on how WinUI / WinAppSDK folks manage. https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues

comment by pjmlp · 2023-04-25 · in Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons

…want to adopt the new design language, it still seems like you are stuck with no options. 1. https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/2236 EDIT: after some further sleuthing it sort of looks like window acrylic might show up…

comment by yakkityyak · 2022-05-23 · in Welcome to .NET Multi-Platform App UI

…WinUI is a clusterfuck so they need to keep using what they have. Currently 2307 issues open, https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues And this is just one repo, then you can hop into C#/WinRT, AppSDK, C++/WinRT ones as well.…

comment by pjmlp · 2021-12-08 · in Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

…But note that someone from Microsoft linked that tweet in response to a question of who uses RNW: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/6050#i...

comment by poopooracoocoo · 2021-11-17 · in Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for macOS and Windows

Microsoft's ongoing efforts for WinUI seem to be missing. https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/2488 As mentioned on the thread, the current samples are at https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

comment by pjmlp · 2021-07-09 · in Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in Rust

You can see the signs of this happening live, UWP dropped from WinUI roadmap and desktop focus, https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/main/doc... While Project Reunion gets renamed into Windows App SDK…

comment by pjmlp · 2021-07-02 · in First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta

…WinUI. Maps is a good example where this is noticeable. You can see some screenshots in link below. https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/3767

comment by nxc18 · 2021-06-19 · in State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?

Also both in very active development: https://github.com/dotnet/maui https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml (WinUI 3) WinUI 3 includes all of what used to the the UWP controls and Renderer but "lifted and shifted" out of OS updates…

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

Unfortunately you forgot a dot there, "Wait for WinUI 3.x", with x probably being quite big. https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...

comment by pjmlp · 2021-01-05 · in Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web

…Windows developer gets to deal with, to accomplish the simple task of displaying a vector icon: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/1494

comment by nxc18 · 2020-08-12 · in Available for preorder today, Surface Duo

…all existing UI toolkits (UWP, WPF, WinForms, Win32) can use. This picture summarizes it well - https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/raw/master/do...

comment by Mistredo · 2020-05-06 · in WinUI – The modern native UI platform of Windows

…) these days. Though there's apparently an effort to reimplement it natively in WinUI ( https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/1500 ) (one difference is that the WCT is mostly C# and WinUI/the built-in controls are C++)

comment by contextfree · 2020-03-17 · in WinUI, The modern native UI platform of Windows

Remember telemetry: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/p...

comment by bassman9000 · 2020-03-17 · in WinUI, The modern native UI platform of Windows

Better link: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d... This has actual technical details, the roadmap, the rationale, etc. To those wondering: this does not offer cross-platform GUI. Microsoft’s (inadequate) answer to…

comment by ComputerGuru · 2020-03-16 · in WinUI, The modern native UI platform of Windows

One of the comments on that blog leads to WinUI, which I would assume Microsoft would recommend first https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d... Not sure if it's cross-platform though.

comment by belinder · 2019-11-27 · in ElectronCGI – A Solution to Cross-Platform GUIs for .NET Core

…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 https://github.com/dotnet/wcf And more stuff I am not aware of. Judge as…

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

…but it is talking about it. [1] Comments from Ryan at MS https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1660 [2] https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...

comment by voidmain0001 · 2019-11-09 · in How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't

The "new" UI kit (WinUI) is the one from UWP, it's just being decoupled from Windows releases https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...

comment by contextfree · 2019-08-27 · in Run .NET Core Apps Directly from a GitHub Gist

…https://github.com/dotnet/wpf - WinForms: https://github.com/dotnet/winformsblog-scottha - WinUI: https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml Now, I'm not familiar with those technologies, and don't use them, so I may be missing some…

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

…The WinUI team started to publish publicly about their roadmap, you can see some information here: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d... So, I'm not a windows developer and I'm not familiar with their APIs and…

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

…versions of WinUI with new features and new versions of Windows are still adding new WinRT APIs. https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...

comment by contextfree · 2019-06-09 · in Files UWP: An enthusiast’s take on what Windows File Explorer explorer should be

Nope, WinUI roadmap https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d... React Native for Windows rewrite on top of WinUI https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows Announcement done during last month's BUILD. UWP is live…

comment by pjmlp · 2019-05-31 · in Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform app dream is dead and buried

Actually not, https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d... React Native for Windows is being ported from C# into WinUI/C++. https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows Plus these guys should spend more time at…

comment by pjmlp · 2019-05-30 · in Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform app dream is dead and buried

Windows UI platform team recently posted their roadmap for the platform https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d... and they have a GitHub issue thread requesting comment on the roadmap…

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

Latest example, WinUI roadmap doesn't consider F# relevant. https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d... Guess what is one of the complains on the feedback thread?

comment by pjmlp · 2019-05-22 · in A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (2012)

I will say WinUI instead then. https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...

comment by pjmlp · 2019-05-22 · in The State of Apple's Developer Documentation

…For an example of OS code that uses C++/WinRT, check out the native UI controls library, WinUI: https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml

comment by contextfree · 2019-03-06 · in Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

…the newly open sourced UI frameworks to get full Jitting and Store access (UWP is microsoft-ui-xaml https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml )

comment by benaadams · 2018-12-05 · in Type erasure and reification

…implementation see the developer guide. https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d... Looks really easy to disable, but probably something some folks need to be aware…

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