Best Platform for Apps

Kent Cassidy

HI,

I am new to C# development. I was looking into SSIS for SQL Server for my workplace using Visual Studio. I was not liking the SSIS option so I looked around in Visual Studio to see what other options there were. I started to develop a couple of tools using Windows Presentation For, WPF. Seems to be working okay. I've done a little research and a couple of articles seemed to indicate that WPF was on it's way out the door. I am looking to create stand alone apps that, for now, can run on a Windows PC with varying OS platforms. Does anyone have any recommendation on if I should move away from WPF? Other Options? Best Option?

Thank you, Kent

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Mithun Pattankar10y ago
If your company using Windows 7, then still you can learn lots of WPF stuffs. UWP is claimed to work for machines running Windows OS, its GUI is Xaml based so the knowledge you gained in WPF will surely help here.

At present I feel you can polish WPF skills if you stick to stand alone apps, WPF with MVVM, PRISM, UI design, Styles, Custom controls and list continues to work on.

Out of my experience, don't limit to stand alone apps go for web apps like ASP.NET MVC with loads of JavaScript frameworks.
Kent Cassidy10y ago
Thank you Mithun for the info. It looks like UWP is for Windows 10 but will run in emulation mode on 8.1 and 7. My company is currently running Windows 7. How is UPW different from WPF?
Mithun Pattankar10y ago
Kent,
WPF is not really out the door until near future because I have being working for different clients on WPF from last 3 - 4 years. WPF seems to be more on enterprise level as compared to web apps.

If you want to continue working on stand alone apps then its good if you focus on UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps. With UWP you can leverage your existing WPF(XAML) skills.

Also UWP works Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox etc. There are plenty of materials on internet esp on Microsoft Virtual Academy and Channel 9 MSDN sites.