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by bytefish 318 days ago
This. Also DevExpress and Progress Telerik do not invest into their WinUI Controls at all, and that’s a sign they don’t buy into WinUI neither.

WinForms and WPF are currently the only viable frameworks for Line of Business application. I have yet to see a WinUI3 application in the wild.
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MrZander 318 days ago
Very true. We just developed a brand new LOB desktop app and settled on sticking with WPF. WinUI has been dead for years imo.

On a side note, I still love WPF after working in it for 10 years. Maybe it's just familiarity, and it's a little verbose at times, but man it's a great framework when you know that you're doing.

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bytefish 318 days ago
We also settled on WPF for a new LOB Desktop application, this validates the decision. If you combine WPF with the CommunityToolkit MVVM, it’s a very nice framework to develop with.
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danzk 317 days ago
DevExpress supported WinUI for a little while but decided to abandon support.

One of the biggest problems with WinUI compared to WPF is that DependencyProroperty is implemented as native code, so for .NET developers, there is a huge performance penalty getting or setting any property on control.

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/1633#i...

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CrimsonCape 316 days ago
It's like saying "a UI toolkit for Rust" and then making all the Rust functions call into a java codebase haha.

I read through that github issue a few years ago and with a mix of surprise and disgust knew that I would not be learning WinUI.

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