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Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
.. and how many of the Microsoft applications actually use WinUI3? As far as I can tell they're doing their own thing (Office) or are Electron (Teams) or, at least in Windows 10, haven't actually been updated from WinForms.
The overhead of WinUI3 is pretty huge. The visual designer, a winning feature of Visual Studio for decades, is AWOL. Why? It's XAML, the same as the previous XAML designer! It's just .. broken?
The backward compatibility story is a disaster: you can get stuck in the UWP sandbox https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/issues/1780
What's the big Microsoft WinUI3 flagship app, then? Something people are actually using? Rather than just a few system dialogues. (How many Win11 settings pop up a Win32 dialogue box, still?)
- Leaked Microsoft poll shows fewer employees have confidence in leadership
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For the past year and a half I've been working on Wintoys, an app that let's you experience Windows in your way and keep it fresh everyday while having everything you need in one place
Development for WinAppSdk and WinUI 3 is also very slow and Microsoft seems to not want to push it and invest more developers into it for some reason. They try to improve the framework, is just it's a small team. For example it was a headacke to apply the Mica backgrop and required unmanaged code, they made it simpler and reduced it to a line of code but it took months. I have 2 out of 7 issues fixed on WinAppSdk repository and 0 out of 8 issues fixed in the WinUI 3 repository (some of the older than a year). This are just my issues, there are many other opened by other developers. So yeah, it wasn't fun at all. PoweshellSDK had an issue with the Import-Module command and it wasn't fixed for more than a year and probably won't be ever fixed, but I'm glad I found a workaround, even more clean and more safe, otherwise I couldn't have added the posibility to uninstall and change Store apps.
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Has MAUI improved last couple of months?
As far as I know, there are still some issues with OIDC integration. See this, for example.
- WPF Begins its Long Goodbye
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File Explorer will soon be a Windows App SDK app
this I'm interested in. WinAppSDK is open source.
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Why Modern Software Is Slow
I think the issue is actually the sandboxing and other stuff. WinRT StorageProvider API is known to be extremely slow and NTFS / Windows IO subsystem is itself already quite slow compared to UNIX. The issue IIRC is that StorageProvider is designed for sandboxing and the way they implemented that involves doing RPCs to other processes. So there's probably some heavy context switching involved, but it's architectural, and so the voice recorder was never fixed.
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WPF or WinForms
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft. I even work on WindowsAppSDK just not the WinUI parts. People far more graphically inclined and talented than I handle that 😀
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Is it a bad idea to start a UWP app in 2022?
https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK (327)
- MSFT is working on a UWP Task Manager - hidden on the current DEV build
WinDev
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Control Center on macOS is always re-rendering its SwiftUI causing 1% CPU load
> compressed memory
doesn't solve much and it's been available in all other OS for a long time.
many reported that compressed memory can negatively impact performances in certain scenarios
For example
https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/...
- Thanks for everything, WinRAR: Windows is finally getting native RAR support
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This delay happens when I open any folder with videos in it. Is it normal behavior or should I change any settings? (Using Windows 11 22h2 latest official build).
issue on github
- Switching back to Windows showed me why Linux is more viable than ever
- Alternatives to CCleaner?
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“The entire 11 MB ZIP file was being read from disk a single byte at a time”
A bug has been filed about this on the WinDev repo, might help resolve it faster if it gets some upvotes: https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/...
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Notepad running next to gedit using the initial WSL GUI app support
There are performance issues with POSIX-first software on Windows. There is an open issue for the Windows team about it on Github. You can read more about it here. That's why WSL is needed.
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App Assure team is helping me on this now, but an example is this API that has been broken for several years: https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/22
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What are some alternatives?
UWPDumper - DLL and Injector for dumping UWP applications at run-time to bypass encrypted file system protection.
ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
mactype - Better font rendering for Windows.
dotnet - This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Foundation.
TcNo-Acc-Switcher - A Super-fast account switcher for Steam, Battle.net, Epic Games, Origin, Riot, Ubisoft and many others! [Moved to: https://github.com/TCNOco/TcNo-Acc-Switcher]
Cronos-Rootkit - Cronos is Windows 10/11 x64 ring 0 rootkit. Cronos is able to hide processes, protect and elevate them with token manipulation.
openjdk - Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
Windows UI Library - Windows UI Library: the latest Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications
WindowsAppSDK-Samples - Feature samples for the Windows App SDK
fslang-suggestions - The place to make suggestions, discuss and vote on F# language and core library features
RisohEditor - Another free Win32 resource editor
cppwinrt - C++/WinRT