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• Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
  23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2024
• The power of interoperability: Why objects are inevitable (2013) [pdf]
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 May 2024

  > why Microsft has ceased anything beyond legacy support for it

  That is not true at all. DirextX is COM, UWP was COM based, WinRT is still COM, WinUI and the Windows App SDK is again based on COM. C++, C#, Python and Rust are all supported programming languages for the Windows App SDK thanks to - you guessed it: COM. The C++, C# and Rust language projections for it are still being constantly updated: https://github.com/microsoft/xlang

  When they started Project Reunion (code name for Windows APP SDK) back in 2021, just before Windows 11's release, they decided to double-down on COM. Like hard.

  https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/blob/main/docs/fa...

  > Practically speaking, any language & runtime that can handle COM objects can support Windows App SDK

• WinUI3 + WebView2
  1 project | /r/dotnet | 30 Oct 2023

  The issue is described here: WebView2 does not support passing in a CoreWebView2Environment · Issue #1170 · microsoft/WindowsAppSDK (github.com)

• Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 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?)

• How can i change the pointer of my cursor in winui3?
  1 project | /r/dotnet | 29 Jun 2023
• Leaked Microsoft poll shows fewer employees have confidence in leadership
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2023
• 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
  2 projects | /r/Windows10 | 6 May 2023

  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.

• Has MAUI improved last couple of months?
  4 projects | /r/dotnetMAUI | 19 Mar 2023

  As far as I know, there are still some issues with OIDC integration. See this, for example.

• WPF Begins its Long Goodbye
  9 projects | /r/dotnet | 5 Mar 2023
• File Explorer will soon be a Windows App SDK app
  2 projects | /r/Windows11 | 15 Feb 2023

  this I'm interested in. WinAppSDK is open source.

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