WindowsAppSDK

Well, if you have been following up on blogs, community videos and github issues, most likely by the time .NET 6 comes out, the stack will look like Windows 7 development model never went away and the only improvement was replacing COM with the improvements brought by UWP. With the store sandboxing Win32 apps instead. https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/fo... https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion My biggest grip with .NET, since 2001 alphas for MSFT partners, was not being AOT like Delphi (NGEN was never meant for anything other than fast startups).

Actually MS isn't doing just fine as they would gladly that everyone migrates to Windows Store, which was also part of Windows 10X plans, store only installations including Win32. Now that Windows 10X seems to go nowhere [1], and Project Reunion is still trying to find out how to merge Windows 7 and 10 worlds [2], one more reason not to do just fine. [1] - https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10x/238014/windows-... [2] - https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion/issues

It seems like they want to consolidate all those APIs with Project Reunion https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion So I'm hoping this improved things in the future.

'At Build 2020 [1] today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion [2], its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 APIs and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs. Microsoft also promises Project Reunion can modernize existing apps with the latest functionality, whether they’re built using C++, .NET (including WPF, Windows Forms, and UWP), or React Native. Additionally, it can decouple the APIs from Windows via tools like NuGet, and it brings new WinUI 3 and WebView2 releases.'[3] Possibly related: Windows Package Manager Preview https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-m... https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli [1] https://mybuild.microsoft.com [2] https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion [3] https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/19/microsofts-project-reunio...

'At Build 2020 [1] today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion [2], its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 APIs and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs. Microsoft also promises Project Reunion can modernize existing apps with the latest functionality, whether they’re built using C++, .NET (including WPF, Windows Forms, and UWP), or React Native. Additionally, it can decouple the APIs from Windows via tools like NuGet, and it brings new WinUI 3 and WebView2 releases.'[3] Possibly related: Windows Package Manager Preview https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-m... https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli [1] https://mybuild.microsoft.com [2] https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion [3] https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/19/microsofts-project-reunio...

'At Build 2020 [1] today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion [2], its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 APIs and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs. Microsoft also promises Project Reunion can modernize existing apps with the latest functionality, whether they’re built using C++, .NET (including WPF, Windows Forms, and UWP), or React Native. Additionally, it can decouple the APIs from Windows via tools like NuGet, and it brings new WinUI 3 and WebView2 releases.' [1] https://mybuild.microsoft.com [2] https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion