Microsoft Launches winapp to Simplify Windows App Development

Microsoft’s new winapp CLI simplifies Windows app development with one-command setup, faster testing, and easier packaging.

winapp: Microsoft's CLI tool for cross-platform Windows development

With the CLI tool winapp, Microsoft wants to simplify Windows development for cross-platform developers. It handles SDK ...
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Microsoft Will Open Source the Windows App SDK — Just Don't Ask About When as "this isn’t a flip-the-switch moment, it’s a deliberate process"

Microsoft has published an article on Github detailing its plans to open source the Windows App SDK. Beth Pan, a software engineer on the Windows App SDK team at Microsoft, announced the plans in a ...

Microsoft Announces a Command Line Utility for Windows App Developers

Microsoft today announced the release of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp) in public preview. This open source command ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Choosing the Right UI Framework for Native Windows Applications

What tech should a .NET coder use for a new Windows desktop app when presented with a dizzying array of options that include .NET MAUI, WinUI, WinForms, WPF, UWP, Blazor and so on? We've investigated ...
PC World

Has Windows 8.1 revived Windows app development?

In late March, the first builds of Windows 8.1 leaked to the Web. At about the same time, the number of Windows 8 apps reversed several months of slowing growth and charted four straight months of app ...
Ars Technica

Framework for Windows? App development

Windows would likely be better- you can still run software much older than 2004, but good luck finding people willing to work on stuff 20 years old. I actually think fully compiled binaries will stand ...