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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 Rich on Thursday December 06 2018, @10:29AM (1 child)
Heh, I didn't see this.
But with the code out, someone is going to do it. The cat is out of the bag and I wonder how MS will deal with it when it arrives. I always thought the desktop UI was kind of the crown jewels to lock developers to Windows in the end, so the open-sourcing of WPF struck me with surprise. The initial versions of Mono were so throughly developed that I felt they could hardly have been done by a few hippies around Icaza (read: MS helped out massively), but they were sorely lacking key components, namely a debugger, and desktop UI, which would have been no-brainers to do for a team with that throughput - if general development enabling would have been the goal.
I'm not going to be the someone, though. At the moment, I'm pulling Carbon-dependencies out of a MacApp 3.1 lookalike to make it cross-platform, but that's another story, going on since 25 years, with a million lines of validated application code behind it, which is why I would do such a seemingly futile exercise in the first place.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:25PM
Microsoft's
strategytragedy of locking people into the Windows GUI or APIs no longer works because developers have found many other green(er) pastures.To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.