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by malkia 4261 days ago
All I can say is - Sticking to Qt5 for now.
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maxxxxx 4261 days ago
If I had to start a new desktop app now I would also go for Qt. I am tired of MS rolling out new frameworks and abandoning them a few years later.
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Scuds 4261 days ago
In Visual Studio 14 CTP4 you can still File -> New VB / C# Project -> Windows Forms in same as you could ten years ago, but with the next generation CLR in the new IDE.

It's still _supported_ and there are a ton of vendors still shipping components. Abandoned/EOL/Discontinued is something like FoxPro or Apple's Rosetta emulator. It's not even deprecated.

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maxxxxx 4261 days ago
Sure you can. But you are locked into a framework that reached its peak a few years ago. It's like writing HTML that's compatible with IE6. You can do this and it works but you are stuck in the past.
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