WPF Update with Joseph Finney
What's happening with WPF? Carl and Richard talk to Joseph Finney about the news from Build about WPF - it's back, baby! But did it ever go away? Joe talks about how WPF was made open source in 2018 and how minimal development was done there - enough so that the community started building frameworks to support it, including WPFUI and ModernWPF. But at Build, Microsoft announced a new focus on WPF, including creating support for a Windows 11 theme - with a line of code, you can make your WPF app look like a Windows 11 app. Where does this leave WinApp SDK? What about migrations? There's lots to talk about!
Guests:
Joseph Finney
Joseph Finney is a Mobile Product Owner and MVP by day and builds productivity apps for Windows at night. When he is not programming he is birding, running, and enjoying tasty coffee and beer in Milwaukee.
Links:
- Blazor Hybrid on WinForms https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/e6553928-dbf1-4519-81e7-4a6d262bd40e
- Text-Grab https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
- Windows Presentation Foundation https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/desktop/wpf/overview/?view=netdesktop-8.0&WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-10953
- WPF on GitHub https://github.com/dotnet/wpf
- Windows App SDK https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps/windows-app-sdk?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-10953
- Windows Copilot Runtime https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/ai/overview?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-10953
- Figma https://www.figma.com/
- MVVM Toolkit https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/communitytoolkit/mvvm?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-10953
- WPFUI Collaboration for Win11 Theming https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/discussions/8533
- Glimpse https://github.com/Glimpse