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I'm a dinosaur "legacy" desktop developer for Windows 7 and 10 PC's. I've been developing applications that run industrial machines for 25 years. Visual Studio + C# + WPF are the best set of tools and technologies that I've ever had the pleasure of using. Screw UWP.
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I really like UWP as a platform. The major thing I dont like is the control venders seem to think if you want UWP you want big finger clickable controls. I wish you could easily adjust the control sizes for mouse and keybord to give a more WPF control sizing and have an easy toggle to let users switch to touch screen mode. The other thing I dont like is if you are accessing a database like documentDB you cant do it directly from UWP easily. This makes prototyping a pain as you have to setup a prototype web api and a prototype UWP app. I guess with other mobile development it is the same.
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Actually I did think of releasing not one but two UWP. The 1st is a free fancy test app to get a feel of API and get ready for my 2nd AR app.
During my research of my 1st app, I found out GDI+ is not supported and text outline functionality is not supported by UWP graphics API, meaning I have to totally rewrite and reimplement my library using freetype2. Too much work for a free app!
For my 2nd app, I am not sure if DirectShow is supported.
What UWP attracts me is the Microsoft store. If I were to sell my app myself, I dun think any credit card merchant will bother with someone like me who has no money or sales record.
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I too was phased by MS's previous visions for trying to create ubiquitous platforms but I can't fail them for not getting it right first time. Just look at Java which never seems to die 
But I think MS is on the right track with UWP considering it is core to the entire Windows 10 platform, that includes desktop, tablet, mobile (hmm), HoloLens, IoT and now Xbox. No other technology has such a reach unless you count C#/Mono.
With the mess with Android, sooo many versions, devices variants and even apple can't keep it's desktop / mobile frameworks in line (however they do seem to be making strides now).
These days, I create my core "program" / "library" for a project truly universal in a shared / pcl / netcore project and then consume that from any project, whether it's UWP, Android or iOS (or anything else). The thing that UWP really gives me is I only need ONE solution to target all their platforms without nasty #IF statements everywhere. One binary that runs on ALL Windows 10 devices. Simples.
For other platforms (even using Xamarin) I have to plan for so many variants, so I simply limit the scope to make it easier, I don't have to do that with UWP as it "just works".
My two pence anyway.
Simon (darkside) Jackson
ID&Xbox MVP & Best selling author
[Mastering Unity 2D Game Development] (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/mastering-unity-2d-game-development)
[Unity 3D UI Essentials] (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/unity-3d-gui-essentials)
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But, 'big-endian' has been accepted: [^].
Kim is allegedly near the breaking point as she stays by the side of her (now hospitalized) husband, Kanye, struggling to deal with his apparent psychotic break-down which caused the cancellation of his 'Yeesus' tour.
Yeesus and Kim entourage members have been quoted as saying that the OED choice hit Kim as hard as a missed Botox treatmnt.
Our compassion for Kim's current difficulties prohibits mentioning that she could be said to have been 'Swift-boated' by this publicity-failure, but, we are not going to hide our perception that there was overweaning hubris at play here: did Kim really think her fleshly amplitude had earned a place in the semiotic digimeme-space occupied by 'callipygian,' or, 'steatopygic' ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 30-Nov-16 21:31pm.
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What are you talking about?
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The biggest ass in the blogosphere.
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I googled it, a very fitting description it seems.
Now, where's my bleach?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: What are you talking about?
Hi, Jörgen, I speak of the necessity ... when one's cultural reality becomes tabloid ... to use only metaphors that connect stray factoids to media personae.
If I were from Sweden, rather than COM (Corporate Occupied MallBurgerLand), perhaps I would be able to double-speak in a different flavor.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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With help of Google, let me try asking the question again:
Quote: Khuṇ kảlạng phūd reụ̄̀xng xarị? 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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BillWoodruff wrote: did Kim really think her fleshly amplitude had earned a place in the semiotic digimeme-space occupied by 'callipygian,' or, 'steatopygic' ?
You mean the woman whose husband thinks that the Bible needs to be re-written to include him? Yeah, she really thought that.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Just had a forced install of this POS at work. Is it me or did they make their icons using mspaint ? They look awful, all grey with no shading. For the company having so many design SW in the portfolio, this must be some sort of joke. Plus the rendering seems a bit cluttered, since on my machine it looks even worse than on below screenshot, like the display of a jpeg that has been 10 times printed out and rescanned as a jpeg.
For those wondering, I am referring to this:
Screenshot[^]
//Link fixed by Marco Bertschi
modified 30-Nov-16 16:23pm.
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I tried reading to acrobats, but, while the money was great, they kept flipping out on me, so I took up programming.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Ignorance is bliss.
... and silence is golden ...
[edit]
What was your question exactly?
[end edit]
modified 30-Nov-16 14:09pm.
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Why is your screenshot link redirecting to a very dodgy looking download site to download Acrobat Reader? 
Maybe that's why your icons are crap. If you've downloaded it from an unofficial source, you've probably infected your PC with all sorts of nasty malware.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Why is your screenshot link redirecting to a very dodgy looking download site to download Acrobat Reader?
The image he is supposedly referring to is placed in a tab on the page. Nevertheless fixed the link for him before someone decides to apply the hammer.
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Mmmhhh... Sorry for that, but it could be that I am not the culprit here ( automatical Clickety script?)
My Adobe is official, it was installed by our IT department, not by me.
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I fixed the link for you. It somehow did not point to the image, but to some dubious download page containing the image in a different tab.
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I thought I was the only one to think that...
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Rage wrote: Is it me or did they make their icons using mspaint ?
ms paint?
Luxury!
They drew them with leftover stubs of crayons, and photographed them with a phone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Luxury!
We used to dream of having left-over stubs of crayons.
We drew our icons with mud and twigs. And when we were finished, we used to have to hold them up for an hour while Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre took a picture[^] of them.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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