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  • R raddevus

    Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

    Everywhere? Only if you have Windows 10!!!

    I know. Everywhere is becoming much smaller as the Windows UNIVERSE dwindles. :D

    My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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    dandy72
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    If you drink the Microsoft Kool-Aid, "everywhere" also includes the Xbox (which might not make much sense depending on the app), IoT (same applies), Windows Phone (which very few people have) and HoloLens (which nobody has). I might've been excited about this 5 years ago. Today this seems too little, too late.

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      Has anyone actually attempted to create a UWA (Universal Windows App)? I am in the middle of developing one and there are lots of lessons learned. It's not WinForm Development (of course) and it's not WPF. It's almost WPF but it isn't. Lots of new things you have to learn for simple things like copying to clipboard so that it works on all devices. A couple of the most interesting things I've learned is that it is very difficult to find anything on the web specifically about UWP. There's the official Microsoft stuff and then not much else. Microsoft has large github with samples: Windows-universal-samples/Samples at master · Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples · GitHub[^] But, I've also only found two books that even specifically cover the topic from a C# viewpoint (not including HTML5). Universal Windows Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed Amazon.com: Books[^] And most of the stuff in those books I find comes at it from a XAML standpoint instead of a programming / automation C# standpoint. Anyone else trying to dev real UWA out there? Just curious. This would be a good CP poll.

      My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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      Mike Hankey
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      Why bother in 6 month's it will be abandoned or obsolete or both.

      New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta
      I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!

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        Why bother in 6 month's it will be abandoned or obsolete or both.

        New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta
        I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!

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        dandy72
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        Mike Hankey wrote:

        Why bother in 6 month's it will be abandoned or obsolete or both.

        ...to be replaced by what, exactly? I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just wondering what Microsoft can turn to once it becomes clear it's not taking off. (Part of me says bring back Winforms) :-)

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          If you drink the Microsoft Kool-Aid, "everywhere" also includes the Xbox (which might not make much sense depending on the app), IoT (same applies), Windows Phone (which very few people have) and HoloLens (which nobody has). I might've been excited about this 5 years ago. Today this seems too little, too late.

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          raddevus
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          dandy72 wrote:

          I might've been excited about this 5 years ago. Today this seems too little, too late.

          That's a good summary of how 98% of the devs feel, I think. And. you're right about xbox and all that too. I was kind of happy to know that, because my app could even have interest on that platform.

          My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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          • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

            Why bother in 6 month's it will be abandoned or obsolete or both.

            New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta
            I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!

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            raddevus
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            Mike Hankey wrote:

            Why bother in 6 month's it will be abandoned or obsolete or both.

            I know. I think you are right. If you go to twitter you'll see no one is talking about UWA UWP and you can't find many StackOverflow items. People (devs) just aren't really talking about it or doing Universal App dev. This was Microsoft's last flail, I think. Will be down for the count soon. Of course, they'll still rake in $billions$. :sigh:

            My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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            • R raddevus

              Has anyone actually attempted to create a UWA (Universal Windows App)? I am in the middle of developing one and there are lots of lessons learned. It's not WinForm Development (of course) and it's not WPF. It's almost WPF but it isn't. Lots of new things you have to learn for simple things like copying to clipboard so that it works on all devices. A couple of the most interesting things I've learned is that it is very difficult to find anything on the web specifically about UWP. There's the official Microsoft stuff and then not much else. Microsoft has large github with samples: Windows-universal-samples/Samples at master · Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples · GitHub[^] But, I've also only found two books that even specifically cover the topic from a C# viewpoint (not including HTML5). Universal Windows Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed Amazon.com: Books[^] And most of the stuff in those books I find comes at it from a XAML standpoint instead of a programming / automation C# standpoint. Anyone else trying to dev real UWA out there? Just curious. This would be a good CP poll.

              My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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              jeffery c
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              I am a uwp dev. If you've done windows 8.1 apps or wpf it might be easier. Definitely if you've done windows 8.1 apps. I prefer desktop apps as the full dot net framework has more support. Performing rest http requests are very similar on uwp but you need to have that stream referenced correctly or you could have memory leaks? Maybe the Microsoft guys on their support forum are confusing me a little.

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                I am a uwp dev. If you've done windows 8.1 apps or wpf it might be easier. Definitely if you've done windows 8.1 apps. I prefer desktop apps as the full dot net framework has more support. Performing rest http requests are very similar on uwp but you need to have that stream referenced correctly or you could have memory leaks? Maybe the Microsoft guys on their support forum are confusing me a little.

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                raddevus
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                Good info and interesting to find someone out there actually doing UWP. You may be the lone pioneer out at the edge of the wilderness though. :D Thanks for chiming in.

                My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                  Mike Hankey wrote:

                  Why bother in 6 month's it will be abandoned or obsolete or both.

                  ...to be replaced by what, exactly? I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just wondering what Microsoft can turn to once it becomes clear it's not taking off. (Part of me says bring back Winforms) :-)

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                  David Carta
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                  Xamarin. They already have a full stack in VS. Deploys to Android and iOS (mostly). Why not make it so it can deploy universally.

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                  • R raddevus

                    Universal Windows Platform It's write once, run everywhere dream! See more here:Guide to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps[^]

                    My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                    ClockMeister
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                    Yeah, write once run anywhere except where "anywhere" ain't Windows 10. Winforms is much closer to WORA than that!

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                    • R raddevus

                      Good info and interesting to find someone out there actually doing UWP. You may be the lone pioneer out at the edge of the wilderness though. :D Thanks for chiming in.

                      My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                      jeffery c
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                      It's not too bad. They need it to support XML serialization though so projects can be ported instead of the change data contract type stuff. I was trying to port the eBay source code over to uwp but the XML serialization stuff drives me crazy. If you need help I will try and give it. File system and all that is pretty much the same as windows 8.1 with a few changes that's why a simple app or one with rest API code might be possible but its a little hard because serialization is messed up if you need XML.

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                      • C ClockMeister

                        Yeah, write once run anywhere except where "anywhere" ain't Windows 10. Winforms is much closer to WORA than that!

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                        raddevus
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                        ClockMeister wrote:

                        Winforms is much closer to WORA than that!

                        It does seem to be the case. And it's unfortunate because there are a lot of crusty old controls in the WinForms realm. Many of them are dated back to Win95, few of them ever really got updated.

                        My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                        • D David Carta

                          Xamarin. They already have a full stack in VS. Deploys to Android and iOS (mostly). Why not make it so it can deploy universally.

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                          dandy72
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                          Comparing UWP and Xamarin...I suspect that Xamarin only represents a small subset of what can be done with UWP (notwithstanding being cross-platform). Mind you, it'd be great if Xamarin became a superset/cross-platform version of UWP. But I don't see that happening.

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                          • R raddevus

                            Has anyone actually attempted to create a UWA (Universal Windows App)? I am in the middle of developing one and there are lots of lessons learned. It's not WinForm Development (of course) and it's not WPF. It's almost WPF but it isn't. Lots of new things you have to learn for simple things like copying to clipboard so that it works on all devices. A couple of the most interesting things I've learned is that it is very difficult to find anything on the web specifically about UWP. There's the official Microsoft stuff and then not much else. Microsoft has large github with samples: Windows-universal-samples/Samples at master · Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples · GitHub[^] But, I've also only found two books that even specifically cover the topic from a C# viewpoint (not including HTML5). Universal Windows Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed Amazon.com: Books[^] And most of the stuff in those books I find comes at it from a XAML standpoint instead of a programming / automation C# standpoint. Anyone else trying to dev real UWA out there? Just curious. This would be a good CP poll.

                            My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                            Bruce Greene
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                            raddevus wrote:

                            This would be a good CP poll.

                            Yes! As a desktop WPF/C# developer (for industrial automation) with absolutely zero interest in apps that could run on the XBox, I would like to see how much actual UWA interest is out there. Am I developing "legacy" applications or am I still one of the cool kids?

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                              raddevus wrote:

                              This would be a good CP poll.

                              Yes! As a desktop WPF/C# developer (for industrial automation) with absolutely zero interest in apps that could run on the XBox, I would like to see how much actual UWA interest is out there. Am I developing "legacy" applications or am I still one of the cool kids?

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                              jeffery c
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                              This will be the upcoming model for windows phone. So, the point is as said above in another way, it will be impossible to make a phone app with the full dot net framework now that windows 10 almost permanently uses this model for the store (they were talking about normal apps which still exist but are either considered legacy or "specialized" apps). Now, I do not know what the uwp extensions do but I'm sure they add functionality not given. I'll rise a ticket in visual studio or other support for bringing back serialization for uwp.

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                              • R raddevus

                                Has anyone actually attempted to create a UWA (Universal Windows App)? I am in the middle of developing one and there are lots of lessons learned. It's not WinForm Development (of course) and it's not WPF. It's almost WPF but it isn't. Lots of new things you have to learn for simple things like copying to clipboard so that it works on all devices. A couple of the most interesting things I've learned is that it is very difficult to find anything on the web specifically about UWP. There's the official Microsoft stuff and then not much else. Microsoft has large github with samples: Windows-universal-samples/Samples at master · Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples · GitHub[^] But, I've also only found two books that even specifically cover the topic from a C# viewpoint (not including HTML5). Universal Windows Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed Amazon.com: Books[^] And most of the stuff in those books I find comes at it from a XAML standpoint instead of a programming / automation C# standpoint. Anyone else trying to dev real UWA out there? Just curious. This would be a good CP poll.

                                My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                                stephen hazel
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                                After reading all the folks replying, I feel comforted to know that my initial guess about UWP was at least not terribly wrong... Stick with win32. Until it dies. Hopefully by the time that happens, Android will have device drivers, run on beefy tablets, and, well, not suck for C++ development.

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                                  raddevus wrote:

                                  This would be a good CP poll.

                                  Yes! As a desktop WPF/C# developer (for industrial automation) with absolutely zero interest in apps that could run on the XBox, I would like to see how much actual UWA interest is out there. Am I developing "legacy" applications or am I still one of the cool kids?

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                                  raddevus
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                                  Bruce Greene wrote:

                                  Am I developing "legacy" applications

                                  Now that we are seeing what Win10 is doing...I guess any win10 development is "legacy development". :D

                                  My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                                  • S stephen hazel

                                    After reading all the folks replying, I feel comforted to know that my initial guess about UWP was at least not terribly wrong... Stick with win32. Until it dies. Hopefully by the time that happens, Android will have device drivers, run on beefy tablets, and, well, not suck for C++ development.

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                                    raddevus
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                                    Or WinPhone will ascend!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

                                    My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                                    • R raddevus

                                      Has anyone actually attempted to create a UWA (Universal Windows App)? I am in the middle of developing one and there are lots of lessons learned. It's not WinForm Development (of course) and it's not WPF. It's almost WPF but it isn't. Lots of new things you have to learn for simple things like copying to clipboard so that it works on all devices. A couple of the most interesting things I've learned is that it is very difficult to find anything on the web specifically about UWP. There's the official Microsoft stuff and then not much else. Microsoft has large github with samples: Windows-universal-samples/Samples at master · Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples · GitHub[^] But, I've also only found two books that even specifically cover the topic from a C# viewpoint (not including HTML5). Universal Windows Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed Amazon.com: Books[^] And most of the stuff in those books I find comes at it from a XAML standpoint instead of a programming / automation C# standpoint. Anyone else trying to dev real UWA out there? Just curious. This would be a good CP poll.

                                      My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                                      My answer is sort of yes and sort of no. The application I am creating is intended to be a "real" or professional level quality UWA app, but it is primarily for my own purposes. I will probably put the bulk of it on github when the time is right. I have messed with/customized a number of the starter apps, and been satisfied with my results so far, but I am finding the transition from sample app to fully fulfilling the requirements for a store-worthy app to be REALLY poorly documented. I remember going to a user group at the local Microsoft office early in the Windows 8 era, and hearing pleadings from several people about "it is not that hard", and "you should really do this" but, now, as with then, I reach a particular point, get a number of "bzzzzt, that isn't right" messages, and move on with life because quality explanations for why don't even exist in google searches. "You should ask"? I move on with my life if I have to wait that long for an answer...

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                                      • R raddevus

                                        Has anyone actually attempted to create a UWA (Universal Windows App)? I am in the middle of developing one and there are lots of lessons learned. It's not WinForm Development (of course) and it's not WPF. It's almost WPF but it isn't. Lots of new things you have to learn for simple things like copying to clipboard so that it works on all devices. A couple of the most interesting things I've learned is that it is very difficult to find anything on the web specifically about UWP. There's the official Microsoft stuff and then not much else. Microsoft has large github with samples: Windows-universal-samples/Samples at master · Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples · GitHub[^] But, I've also only found two books that even specifically cover the topic from a C# viewpoint (not including HTML5). Universal Windows Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed Amazon.com: Books[^] And most of the stuff in those books I find comes at it from a XAML standpoint instead of a programming / automation C# standpoint. Anyone else trying to dev real UWA out there? Just curious. This would be a good CP poll.

                                        My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                                        Yortw
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                                        The company I work for is doing UWP for some of our warehousing and retail based mobile devices. Currently shipping two 'apps' (from the store's/binary perspective, they have multiple funtions each). So you're not alone in doing UWP dev, just in a very small minority (I think) :) I agree the lack of UWP specific resources is annoying, but much of the older WinRT stuff still applies. Still annoying when you're trying to find the right way to do something *now* and you find WPF/Silverlight/Windows Phone/WinRT stuff that doesn't apply or is old. Since I mostly skipped WPF and my previous (limited) XAML experience has been WPSL/WinRT, I don't find too many differences in the UWP except for the changes in controls etc. The UWP API itself is obviously different to what we've had before, but that's sort of to be expected. The stuff that really grinds my gears is things like the crappy error handling. Years of being taught not to throw or catch System.Exception and now the framework throws it all the time so you have to catch it, then try and figure out what the HResult from the dark ages means. There's a few helper functions for that (one specifically in the Windows.Web namespace somewhere), but they're all disparate functions and you end up with quite a lot of logic and much Googling to produce good error handling. Thank goodness they gave us exception filters in C#. I blame jscript for all of this. I once heard (at Build?) supporting jscript and having language projections is the reason we don't have inheritance in 'Runtime Components'. I suspect it's also the reason for using COM and the poor error handling. So once again, jscript is the reason we can't have nice things.

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                                          The company I work for is doing UWP for some of our warehousing and retail based mobile devices. Currently shipping two 'apps' (from the store's/binary perspective, they have multiple funtions each). So you're not alone in doing UWP dev, just in a very small minority (I think) :) I agree the lack of UWP specific resources is annoying, but much of the older WinRT stuff still applies. Still annoying when you're trying to find the right way to do something *now* and you find WPF/Silverlight/Windows Phone/WinRT stuff that doesn't apply or is old. Since I mostly skipped WPF and my previous (limited) XAML experience has been WPSL/WinRT, I don't find too many differences in the UWP except for the changes in controls etc. The UWP API itself is obviously different to what we've had before, but that's sort of to be expected. The stuff that really grinds my gears is things like the crappy error handling. Years of being taught not to throw or catch System.Exception and now the framework throws it all the time so you have to catch it, then try and figure out what the HResult from the dark ages means. There's a few helper functions for that (one specifically in the Windows.Web namespace somewhere), but they're all disparate functions and you end up with quite a lot of logic and much Googling to produce good error handling. Thank goodness they gave us exception filters in C#. I blame jscript for all of this. I once heard (at Build?) supporting jscript and having language projections is the reason we don't have inheritance in 'Runtime Components'. I suspect it's also the reason for using COM and the poor error handling. So once again, jscript is the reason we can't have nice things.

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                                          raddevus
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                                          Yortw wrote:

                                          So once again, jscript is the reason we can't have nice things.

                                          That's funny...and true. Great info on your dev experience. Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

                                          My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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