Microsoft positions UWP for line of business applications

[Kent Sharkey]

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Microsoft is positioning UWP for traditional line of business (LOB) applications with an emphasis on rapid application development (RAD) using the Windows Template Studio.

Because positioning it as the general UI model definitely wasn't working

[FIorian Schneidereit]

I wonder why they didn't just modernize WPF. It's a mature and proven framework for LOB applications that unfortunately is stuck in 2010 from a technology perspective. Instead, they decided to reinvent the wheel. Literally, because UWP just uses the same old concepts and has the same old features like WPF or Silverlight, but often in a rather crippled implementation. For example, you cannot have read-only dependency properties or use property coercion, and it's missing essential controls. On the other hand, new concepts in UWP, like themed resources or x:Bind, and modern controls, are missing from WPF. It's a mess of two worlds.