Can I please ask what is meant here by 'web (desktop)'? Access to any listed OS via whatever browser is instal
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Does anyone know what the heck is going on with Edge (for W10, Version 101.0.1210.39 (Official build) (64-bit)
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the company teases that it will “unveil some exciting news … you don’t want to miss this session!...a co
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I think most MS devs are thinking along the same lines i.e. the preference is C# over Dart but we're missing t
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MS should never have gone down the browser route and should instead have focused on Windows to provide as need
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which would also time with Build?
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"What I’m curious about is why this release happened with so little fanfare."...perhaps something to do with
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shame despite all these amazing efforts there's zero progress to counter Flutter... aka a web + Windows UI kit
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Paul, can you please fix those big white space gaps between paras so we can sensibly comment (Edge W10)? Many
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Of course WinUI is a stack for Windows. FluentUI is a collection of UI stacks, one of which is WinUI for Windo
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No I don't mean MAUI, because the web stack (aka Blazor) doesn't use WinUI but rather HTML and CSS. To further
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I'm sure VS 22 and .NET 6 are full of awesome goodness but I just wish MS would focus on a common control stac
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does it float?!
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But Windows 11... It feels like home. And by the way, did I tell you I'm a dev suffering from hoarding disorde
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I wish I could see the point of all the focus on Mac and Linux when currently there isn't a common control set
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I thought Windows 11 was meant to be the de facto OS for the hybrid scenario of home and business, yet in this
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I'd say overly ambitious, and unnecessary. The original .NET mantra of Windows + web was abandoned quite some
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Interesting there was no specific reference to Blazor or WinForms though it's assumed all is comprehensive und
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don't forget Blazor Day also on the 17th - tried to post the link but it seems my posting isn't visible
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don't forget Blazor Day Home - Blazor Day 2021 - Thursday 17 June 2021 - Online (World)
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I remain of the opinion the reference to "...we will create more opportunity for every Windows developer today
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Lo the Windows speculator. He riseth in the morning and upsetteth the whole household. Mighty are his preparat
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...and dual screen in the sense it'll be an AR overlay atop Windows.
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it's not an '11', it's a dual screen, right?
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I asked Scott Hunter what might be happening in the common control space to which he kindly directed me to the
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thinking again about the Windows hype... if Nadella really was 'hosting' Windows, that suggests a home or offi
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It has to be about ditching the traditional OS and streaming cloud served apps to a light-weighted UI renderin
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Very astute comment from Mary Jo concerning Flutter for UWP, and only at the alpha stage too.I've kept hoping
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Very
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They've lost any agility they had by not parking up a bunch of stuff with .NET 5
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I have to say, Google's announcement that a new Flutter (alpha I think) will run on UWP does not exactly bode
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In reply to decommissaris:and a barred 'I' unlike the one posted here!
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It's difficult to assess without seeing all the weights, condensed, italicised and extended families toge
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In reply to nbplopes:MS need to park up WinForms & WPF with .NET 5 and create VS with a cross-platform UI
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in reply to fishnet37222 Just to be clear I'm referring to the apps one could create.
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a cross platform UI like Flutter would reduce the complexity admirably...
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I wonder how much OnePlus would set MS back?! Only kidding!
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Afraid I still don't get the Duo-screen value proposition. Whilst it's very nice for a dev to be abl
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It's surely telling that Edge, which is an implementation of Chrome, still faces compatibility issues wit
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I love CorelDraw, shame it struggled to gain traction in the print world (or at least in the UK). I still beli
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In reply to illuminated: I think what you say is very true. I've been saying for a long time XAML should
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In reply to paul-thurrott: I wouldn't agree MS have embraced every UI stack.
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In reply to paul-thurrott: Point noted, MS is sounding a bit more like IBM or AWS these days. I would argue MS
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In reply to lvthunder: MS were close to a ubiquitous platform with .NET back in 2001 - common data layer, comm
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On dismissing a unified Blazor-MAUI platform, I wonder if Richard Lander will be eating his words, though it&#
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In reply to saint4eva: re the upcoming .NET Maui MVU: being able to write the UI in C# is great, I just don�
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In reply to SYNERDATA: On the one hand websites, 'the web', are of course a series of interconnected
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I'd be interested to know why there would zero reason for MS to want to do that: better support for CSS f
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Presumably Mozilla has realised that browserless PWA's might obviate the need to have a browser in the fi
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MS are really pushing out the graphics boat this time...
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In reply to paul-thurrott: sorry for not making clear (hey, it's a hallmark!) - I'm sure Scott H pro
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off topic: what's happening/has happened - to the Maui release for devs, which I thought was promised yea
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Up until recently I've always used Edge and Chrome for my primary web development work, but recently I�
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Regarding today's closing comments about where things are going with W10 and WinUI, with web (which would
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In reply to tsemo2020:thanks tsemo2020 - makes sense. Clearly one would be best to develop through the MAUI ab
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Paul - I'm very confused about WinUI 3 with a 2021 release schedule vs MAUI with a similar timeframe. Per
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In reply to TheJoeFin: I have 2 issues with MS: 1) "Blazor WebAssembly runs on a .NET IL interpreter without a
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In reply to TheJoeFin: I would say MS devs latterly think the world revolves around everyone who's not wr
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In reply to TheJoeFin: please stop and think about what you're writing for just a moment. Blazor on WebAs
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In reply to TheJoeFin: the bottom line is MS lost site of what .NET was supposed to be all about, which was un
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In reply to TheJoeFin: I would say blue77star has a really good point. After the Silverlight debacle, anyone i
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In reply to rmac: just tried it out and the visual rendering is not brilliant. Clearly the screenshot is of a
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In reply to paul-thurrott: well let's hope the extension becomes available in VS then otherwise instead o
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ooohh, lovely. All we need now is some direction that VS Code is to subsume VS (otherwise, why would one adver
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In reply to paul-thurrott: you don't foresee Google shafting us all with a PlayStore dependency i.e. apps
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..one good reason not to go down the Flutter & Dart root.
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I thought UWP was dead, that Maui and Blazor was the future? And why would you need UWP if you had Flutter?
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I'd be happier sticking 2 phones together.
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MS need to sign up with Adobe and create an XD-Blazor plugin.
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Until tonight I had no idea back in May Adobe XD built in support for Flutter. I've been trying to shout
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There are 3 things wrong with this: icons are too small as to be intelligible or interesting; icon colours are
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In reply to paul-thurrott:For sure that was poor wording on my part. My point /my fear should have been/is th
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MS build a Linux subsystem into Windows 10. MS gets over 1 billion users on the Windows 10 OS. MS releases a p
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Well I can't say it's blowing me away.Here's one for MS. Instead of that screen over screen, ho
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Another step in the right direction, but just look at this MS artwork which has become endemic across the enti
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In reply to jimchamplin: ...that's your opinion!
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I think these icons are absolutely awful. If only MS had done something 'big' like leaving the flat
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"Microsoft is—finally—embracing PWA technologies in its main web applications. Hopefully, this is the star
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FT is absolutely up there amongst the top!Let's hope we can keep MS on the right (.NET) track for devs, P
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don't you just love Blackadder: youtube.com/watch?v=QeF1JO7Ki8E
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Surely one can go into Visual Studio today and write a Xamarin app that runs on Android, and (for release May
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quite an announcement on the UNO Platform blog.
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I think the next move would be for MS to replace the W10 start layout with Android. All those in favour?!
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In reply to bigbux:If you look at Roth's graph, then consider that Duo is an Android device, you have to
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In reply to FactoryOptimizr: if I may say, you're kind of teaching me to suck eggs regarding what UI Blaz
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In reply to darkgrayknight: do you really think Google or Samsung are going to find it difficult to port Andro
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In reply to FactoryOptimizr: I can only presume despite the lesson of Silverlight, MS thinks it's OK to p
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In reply to trevor_chdwck: agree 100%
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In reply to Havoc: perhaps I erroneously assumed another reader would have taken heed of the article headline.
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In reply to Havoc: presumably Android developers.
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The one positive is I'll be able to finally justify moving away from VS and C# to Kotlin, Dart & Flut
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In reply to judgejewelz: I'm curious to ask why an Android Surface as opposed to a Windows Surface would
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MS, a company who failed in the small device hardware market, decides to build another hardware device and swa
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The big news is Blazor client side will be released May '20.
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In reply to Rob_Wade:I never got myself a Wiindows Phone but I always thought the form factor (save for the ti
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The look of W10 and the Win UI SDK 2.2 is for me the best UI MS have ever done. I actually wish MS could just
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I think MS should focus on a 'wireless hinge' and coupling/tethering 2 or more disparate screens e.g
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I would suggest a 'Hinge Design for Dual-Screen' should comprise a wireless hinge and 2 disparate sc
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From what Paul is saying, Chredge is going nowhere with so few downloads. It's sad if Edge just isn'
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OFF TOPIC: did the Xamarin website front end just disappear? I can't seem to find the old site. And there
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Whether it came from my first purchases of VB or VS and ultimately an MSDN subscription when I could afford it
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Any idea what language/framework this was written in/against? is it web or UWP based?
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You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth.
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MS need to get on and ready Blazor for WebAssembly and stop pratting around with icons.
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Apart from the obvious platform restriction, my only real gripe with UWP was the persistent vertical menu. The
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sounds as though Windows is MS's 2nd sacrificial pawn following a Chrome based Edge.this ahead of abandon
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what about a common UI stack? I'll stick with .NET framework for now and keep off the Core kool-ade. Mean
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Blazor's a bit like Churchill's WW1 tanks. A brilliant idea without sufficient momentum at launch on
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1.5 years to embrace WebAssembly? Proves my earlier point which I deduced from the Hanselman site back along.
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It seems trivial to talk about icons yet I feel compelled to say I think that the 'canary' icon look
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From Cortana to Edge, through to UI frameworks such as XAML and WinForms which have gone opensource, it seems
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With the continued enhancements in Chrome and Edge, effectively pulling the same way and heading in a PWA dire
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I'm amazed at how little coverage Blazor and WebAssembly got when these combined technologies should brin
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I mentioned it on Mehedi's page on PWAs, but one further thing you'll see MS super excited about (Da
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One further thing Mehedi, you'll see MS are pretty excited about WebAssembly so devs can write in C# (or
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In reply to skane2600: I hear you re: pro-dec era. Markup is such an inefficient thing to type up but I suppos
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In reply to Evilsushi: totally agree if we can get rid of XAML
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In reply to Evilsushi: I do think one major obstacle is XAML. An app's UI could, I am sure, be created fr
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In reply to csf: OK, well icons then and timelines!
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This is the start of a powerful trend. A tile version of the same with some very limited functionality and the
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'Outlook calendar on the web'... when are we going to see a core UI stack that embraces XAML and HTM
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There are so many compelling aspects of this UI that I just love it, except for one thing. The start menu stil
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Android on one screen and W10 on the other?
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OMG don't tell me MS are going to bring out an Android phone?!
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Sorry but I really like the name Windows Store (for B&M and online). What has perhaps dragged the name dow
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As Microsoft seems to be following a 'cloud first' (only) strategy, I guess this is really 'Win
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In the space of just a few last lines, Paul's 'advice' section articulately nails a fundamental
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It will continue to be good to 'create stuff' on Windows, but to regain dominance, that 'stuff&