Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

As far as I am concerned you can toss WPF in the bin. Our customer has terminal server, supporting one of apps which is in WPF using remote desktop can cause a blue screen of death - we can no longer support the custoerm remotely when the app is running. The app will be rewritten back to

Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

As long as Windows is alive so is WPF and WinForms and while they are "dead" in terms of roadmap advancements they are and will be supported for 20yrs (or give or take a few years). Microsoft has certain rules about killing tech like these and given there are military and govt contracts in play

Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

I hope electron is not the direction we go On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: > Nope. They are dead. (As far as I'm concerned) unless you really really > really really need to go down that crazy path. > > If you really really want a desktop app

Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

I thought VS Code was built on top of Electron (which is just a shell)? "Visual Studio Code (I call it VSCode, myself) is a new free developer tool. It's a code editor, but a very smart one. It's cross-platform, built with TypeScript and Electron, and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux." via:

Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

Nope. They are dead. (As far as I'm concerned) unless you really really really really need to go down that crazy path. If you really really want a desktop app I'd look into http://electron.atom.io/ to run a cross-platform "desktop" app build with web technologies on top of Chrome. Atom editor is

Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

Universal apps ad xaml are still getting quite a push from MS On Friday, 25 September 2015, Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: > Nope. They are dead. (As far as I'm concerned) unless you really really > really really need to go down that crazy path. > > If you really really want

[OT] WPF or Winforms?

Anyone here still using winforms? Any reason to start new projects in winforms over WPF? How far has WPF come in the last several years?

Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

I delayed going to WPF for years as I was so familiar with WinForms and it had a designer (which occasionally gets corrupted). If you want a reasonably standard UI then both WinForms and WPF produce similar results, but if you want a user "experience" then WPF has all the transformations and eye