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by acqq 2218 days ago
As an example, how the "Win32" apps are to use these "new" UI features:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/modern...

Desktop C++ users should use: "UWP XAML hosting API provided by the Windows 10 SDK (version 1903 and later)."
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contextfree 2218 days ago
That's on current WinUI/UWP XAML, the new version in preview (WinUI 3) pulls out components deeper into the stack so it can run a couple more Windows versions back (to 1803 I think)
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efdee 2218 days ago
Having actually tried to use XAML Islands to get some UWP UI controls into a WPF application, I can say that the experience was absolutely horrible and I ended up giving up and not using the UWP control after all. Truly, truly horrible.

This was about a month ago.

I hope they do better this time.

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acqq 2218 days ago
> Truly, truly horrible. This was about a month ago.

Fascinatingly, it seems that Microsoft for their own purposes prefers to use Electron-based applications.

I'm curious if they will manage to reduce that strange state to something more reasonable.

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