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by maxxxxx 2821 days ago
Honestly, if I had to develop a new desktop app for Windows I would seriously think about Electron. It's frustrating that there is no premier desktop app framework for Windows anymore. UWP is too limited, WPF is pretty much deprecated. Win32 has a huge learning curve and finding devs would be very difficult. Pretty sad situation.

Maybe their secret plan is to push people into writing web apps with ASP.NET? Event that doesn't work because a lot of people will use Node instead.
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pjmlp 2820 days ago
I have been developing new WPF applications during the last couple of years.

Those customers were now thinking of eventually start moving into UWP after the Windows 10 migration was complete, so given this, they will continue using WPF.

Also Forms, WPF and EF 6 support are the major roadmap items for .NET Core 3.0

Node is no match against .NET or Java for those that care about performance.

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pknopf 2821 days ago
Why not Qt?
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maxxxxx 2821 days ago
True. A while ago I looked into Qt and one problem was that there weren't too many 3rd party components on the market. For WPF and Winforms you can buy extremely powerful components like data grids and tree views (I have been using Developer Express) but I didn't find any for qt.
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pknopf 2821 days ago
Checkout QML (as opposed to widgets).

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls-treeview.html

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls-tableview.html

Here are all the controls: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmltypes.html

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