Comments | gamble: This is why I stopped programming for Windows.

gamble

This is why I stopped programming for Windows.

Sep 14, 2010 10:48

Former WPF/Silverlight Product Manager Says WPF/Silverlight Is DeadI was pissed when they deprecated WinForms in favour of WPF for no particularly good reason, and I'm glad I quit them rather than waste time learning WPF. Whatever they replace WPF with isn't going to stick around any longer. Windows programming with .NET is like being trapped on a ( Read more... )

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thewerewolf September 17 2010, 05:45:47 UTC

Suggestion 1: Don't believe everything you read.

Silverlight is the core of WP7 and is one of the fastest growing web technologies.

.Net Forms isn't dead.
WPF isn't dead.
Silverlight is based on WPF.

And while I'm a fan of WinForms, in .Net 4, they introduced a WPF container for Forms and a Forms container for WPF, which makes them essentially interchangable.

WinForms has stagnated becauae there's not much more they can do with it.

And remember, I *like* WinForms.