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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

Original Submission

1. "Rich" - http://soylentnews.org/~rich
2. "Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI at Microsoft Connect(); 2018" - https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/04/announcing-open-source-of-wpf-windows-forms-and-winui-at-microsoft-connect-2018/
3. "Windows Presentation Foundation" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation
4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=30472

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