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Pete O'Hanlon7-Feb-24 21:27
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honey the codewitch7-Feb-24 22:34
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charlieg8-Feb-24 9:47
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dandy7213-Feb-24 9:39
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charlieg wrote:
then MS tossed us under the bus. They've never recovered. I would challenge any MS senior person to put together a 1 page strategy to explain what MS intends to do in the UI space.
This is why the rise of the html interface exists.


So much this. I feel the same way. MS lost interest in WinForms, but it's still, to this day, the quickest way to get things done, IMO. And they've never offered a decent, just-as-simple, alternative ever since. If not WinForms, what UI library is one supposed to rely on in 2024? I still don't feel confident any of their current offerings won't get abandoned and replaced with something completely different yet again, a year from now. As a desktop developer, I very much feel ignored by MS.

I get what you're saying about the rise of the HTML interface, but if you need to interact with Win32 or "the system" as a whole in any way, shape or form (which I do rather extensively), there's nothing in there to help you out...in fact, you're intentionally getting blocked every step of the way, 'cuz hey, browser means device independence...
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Richard Deeming7-Feb-24 22:18
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Ralf Meier9-Feb-24 6:08
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