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alternatex • yesterday at 4:54 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Hard to say what's native in Windows anymore. I imagine Win32 APIs and more recently Windows App SDK?

The most supported UI frameworks from MS for Windows are WPF and WinUI 3. UWP is dead and WinForms (even though closest to something native to Windows) is probably going to end up in the land of forgotten (sorry nostalgic Windows devs, you have to face it eventually).

A "mess" is an understatement when the people who themselves develop Windows desktop apps have trouble explaining the landscape.


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delta_p_delta_x • yesterday at 6:01 PM

> Win32 APIs

Everything boils back down to Win32, including WPF, WinForms, WinUI2, and WinUI3.

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pie_flavor • yesterday at 5:32 PM

The most supported UI framework from Microsoft for Windows is .NET MAUI, released in 2022.