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 candy.
Once you learn to write XAML by hand without a designer (it's just a preview window) and you create an MVVM pattern to use binding, then it's the choice for large desktop apps. Binding is fabulous. XAML continues to live and grow in Universal apps. *Greg K* On 25 September 2015 at 15:16, DotNet Dude <[email protected]> wrote: > Universal apps ad xaml are still getting quite a push from MS > > On Friday, 25 September 2015, Corneliu I. Tusnea <[email protected]> > 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 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 build like that. Visual Studio Code is build in a similar >> fashion but not on top of electron but pretty much identical process. >> >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Tom Rutter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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? >>> >> >>
