Support generating WPF apps

[grahamehorner]

Please consider supporting WPF templates and/or that generate both WPF/UWP UIs for projects

[mrlacey]

What specific pages, features, frameworks, etc would you like to see with WPF support?
The more specific details you can provide the more it helps with planning and prioritization.

[crutkas]

@grahamehorner what is your scenario here. Supporting WPF would be a large engineering effort to keep parity. why WPF over UWP?

[grahamehorner]

IMO to make this tool really useful for my use case; I would need to create both WPF/UWP user interfaces with shared logic in a satellite assembly; as a large number of businesses have systems which run older operating systems that don't support UWP or have older applications that prevent the move to new operating systems.

You just need to look at the cyber attack and it's impact/number of systems effected to understand there is still a large user base running systems that can't run local UWP apps Windows 8/8.1

[mrlacey]

That there are lots of older systems in use isn't of itself proof that people are continuing to build for them.

If WPF is needed what is required in terms of basic structure and pages? Are, for example, the WPF apps you're building using nav panels and pivots?

[crutkas]

@grahamehorner UWP is Windows 10 only. Based on what you're discussion, wouldn't the desktop bridge be a better option for you? We take a lot of dependencies on Win10 only features. What we made should work with WPF but for us to make a WPF template branch would require a lot of effort.

If you want to share a more detailed information on your customer base, please email me [email protected]. Would love to understand your data about your user population and their constraints. That will help us make more informed feature decisions.

If you're interested in contributing back and doing a PR with WPF, happy to see how this best fits in.

[mrlacey]

Moving to Open Community Questions to see if there's (still?) demand for this

[mrlacey]

What project/navigation types would apply here?

• classic/main menu?
• ribbon menu?
• blank / roll your own (like with current UWP support)

any others?

[mrlacey]

Notes from recent discussion about this:

• We need lots of planning here
• Need clearly defined goals for doing this
• Need to sync with plans from VS, XAML, & Mike H's team
• Projects would default to targetting Win10 & include WinMD reference and have VS packaging project enabled.

[crutkas]

this should be executed w/ .NET Core 3

[rido-min]

@crutkas @sibille any ETA to support WPF on .NET Core 3 ?

[mrlacey]

@rido-min I wouldn't expect anything until .Net Core 3 is officially released. (Remeber it has only just gone into preview.) -- Their roadmap

[Postlagerkarte]

Since WPF is getting some love recently and Build 2019 has a session called "Windows Template Studio - WPF Edition" - do you have any news on the plans/eta for us?

[crutkas]

I am one of the speakers for this 😁

[mrlacey]

Another common WPF pattern I've seen is where every "page" opens in a new window. Is this something that should be supported?

[calloncampbell]

Since WPF is getting some love recently and Build 2019 has a session called "Windows Template Studio - WPF Edition" - do you have any news on the plans/eta for us?

Will this session be available online (YouTube or Channel 9) post Build 2019 conference?

[crutkas]

Will this session be available online (YouTube or Channel 9) post Build 2019 conference?

It was a sneak peek were we were valid a couple open questions. Navigation patterns, look&feel, critical functionality, and the frameworks needed

[sibille]

We created issue dotnet/wpf#1378 and would love to hear your feedback their on what to start with for new project templates for WPF with .NET Core 3.0 in WTS.

[sibille]

We finished work on our first WPF mockup and would love to get your feedback on issue
#3318

[sibille]

WPF templates are now available in our pre-release version: 0.24.20185.1