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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: 2) by aim on Thursday December 06 2018, @06:29AM (1 child)

    by aim (6322) on Thursday December 06 2018, @06:29AM (#770517)

    The final release of XFree86 was in 2008. No I haven't replaced my main computer in ten years. We have this recession for the past decade and I can't afford a new computer. Money is tight for most and non-existent for computer nerds ever since the jock bros and the purple hairs took over the entire tech industry. Nerds die in the gutter.

    Frankly, I wonder where you're sited - around here (center of western Europe), there's got to be something seriously wrong with you not to find work in IT. There's a dire need for IT professionals (any level) pretty much anywhere you care to look, and by far not enough people to cover it.

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  • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:20AM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:20AM (#770532)

    Here in the UK, being over 50 counts as having "something seriously wrong with you"

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