Such a great content from a professional developer ❤ May I ask you sir. What is better for building new production desktop applications with? WPF or WinUI 3
Great question. There is no one perfect answer. At present, the largest investments from Microsoft are in WinUI 3, and they recommend that new development start here, however, WPF is not dead and investments are still being made there (you can see the roadmap on GitHub). Personally, I still love WPF. It is battle tested, stable, and there is a wealth of documentations, samples, and third-party libraries available due to its long lifespan. It does lack some of the newer features available in WinUI such as newer Windows controls (including Fluent Design), interactions, and some performance. Many can also be done in WPF with some effort as well. In the end, I think it depends on what you are doing. If you don't new higher performance, or any of the newer features WPF is a great choice, otherwise WinUI 3 is the way to go.
Such a great content from a professional developer ❤
May I ask you sir.
What is better for building new production desktop applications with? WPF or WinUI 3
Great question. There is no one perfect answer. At present, the largest investments from Microsoft are in WinUI 3, and they recommend that new development start here, however, WPF is not dead and investments are still being made there (you can see the roadmap on GitHub).
Personally, I still love WPF. It is battle tested, stable, and there is a wealth of documentations, samples, and third-party libraries available due to its long lifespan. It does lack some of the newer features available in WinUI such as newer Windows controls (including Fluent Design), interactions, and some performance. Many can also be done in WPF with some effort as well.
In the end, I think it depends on what you are doing. If you don't new higher performance, or any of the newer features WPF is a great choice, otherwise WinUI 3 is the way to go.