Not really related to universal apps, but there is an interesting short article in InfoQ that quotes DevExpress specifically about “their take" on the future of Silverlight.
This is the teaser - DevExpress on the Future of WinForms and Silverlight You can tell a lot about the future of a UI toolkit by how the third party control vendors are treating it. Since their revenue is based around correctly predicting what developers are going to be using in the near future, they spend a lot of time and effort researching the topic. In this report, we’ll be looking at DevExpress and their treatment of WinForms and Silverlight. (News <http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/12/DevExpress-WinForms-Silverlight> ) Suffice to say DevExpress is putting Silverlight development “on hold”. But they are positive about the future of XAML. (link <https://community.devexpress.com/blogs/ctodx/archive/2014/12/22/silverlight-s-future-at-devexpress.aspx> ) >From its early beginnings in WPF and Silverlight, XAML has grown into a >cross-platform user interface definition language. We now use it for WPF, >WinRT, Windows Phone, and soon-if-not-now Universal Apps. The legacy of >Silverlight the framework is essentially Windows Phone, but that of XAML is >across all platforms. Windows Forms? Read the two articles. Back to Microsoft’s universal apps. My original post and remarks about the comments below the Microsoft blog article was non-judgmental – in contrast to the comments (I find they’re usually alarmist, occasionally informative). As David Kean make clear, Microsoft wouldn’t leave those gaping omissions. _____ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria -----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 5:43 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10 Thanks David, your link to this article <http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx posted about a month ago (good reading) clarifies where things are headed. I hadn't been following the news closely, so I was unclear about the big picture of where all the frameworks, portables, RTs and Universals were heading, I couldn't see an end-game. I can't picture yet how this will affect the way I chose to build and deploy various project types, but perhaps the preview VS2015 will show me ... has anyone tried VS2015? Does it have new behaviour to prepare for all the .NET core refactoring? I'm planning to make a VM to try VS2015 this weekend. *Greg K* On 3 January 2015 at 12:03, David Kean < <mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com> david.k...@microsoft.com> wrote: > The next version of universal apps is going to be lovely. We’ll have a > single Windows and .NET surface area across all Windows 10 devices, and > we’ll be filling a bunch of the glaring gaps (including WCF, local database > – we’ll have EF running over SQLLite, file IO, crypto). As part of .NET > Core > < > <http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx> > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx> > effort, we’ve also ported a bunch of legacy areas to make porting from > existing .NET code easier. If you think things are missing that should be > included and you’ve not listed them below, feel free to send them onto me. > > > > *From:* <mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com > [mailto: > <mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On > Behalf Of *Stephen Price > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 23, 2014 8:06 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10 > > > > Universal apps are lovely. > > > > there you go. > > [image: > > <http://t.signaledue.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LGzzVdDZcj8qlRZHN5w6vp0g4p7Cf96836-01?si=6200614728499200&pi=18f8bcdd-be75-4e65-cda4-5bf7f562f3e2> > > http://t.signaledue.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LGzzVdDZcj8qlRZHN5w6vp0g4p7Cf96836-01?si=6200614728499200&pi=18f8bcdd-be75-4e65-cda4-5bf7f562f3e2] > > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Greg Keogh < <mailto:g...@mira.net> > g...@mira.net> wrote: > > It’s interesting to read the comments, and the Microsoft replies – > about what is currently missing from “universal” and why Silverlight is > more suitable, at present. > > > > Good grief! I didn't previously scroll down to see those comments. I don't > think this migration to WinRT should have been announced until all of the > glaring omissions were available. Alarms, reminders, copy-paste, local > database, WCF (they must be kidding, or can't talk to anything)... The > whole RT and winmd files thing leaves me bewildered by more divergence and > too many choices, everything is fragmenting without a clear goal in sight. > Has anyone got anything nice to say about "universal apps"?-- *Greg K* > > >
