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Microsoft Open-Sources WPF, WinForms and WinUI

posted by takyon on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the underworld-refrigeration dept.

Rich writes:

In a surprise move at the Build 2018 conference, Microsoft have announced that three key components of the Windows user interface are now open-sourced. Kevin Gallo, MS VP for the Windows Developer Platform sums it up in a blog entry.

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI at Microsoft Connect(); 2018

The newly opened-up components are critical for writing desktop applications and have so far been Windows-only. Based on C# and the .NET framework, especially WPF is generally considered to be reasonably good. Interest from beyond the Windows ecosystem might appear: when will we see ports to the Linux and Mac platforms, and what would it mean to their platform-specific toolkits GTK and Cocoa?

WPF = Windows Presentation Foundation

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:50PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:50PM (#770297)

    Don't tell me shit I already know. What part of "Motif is good enough" don't you understand?

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:57AM (1 child)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:57AM (#770450) Journal

    Motif? You PINO!* Real programmers use Xlib!

    * Programmer In Name Only.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:58PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:58PM (#770819) Journal

      Can we compromise on Athena widgets?

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.