Microsoft deprecates Universal Windows Platform

[Jan]

End of the Universal Windows Platform

Microsoft has announced that the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is officially deprecated, six years after release, in favour of the new Windows App SDK for Windows app development.

Its announcement comes shortly after the release of Windows 11.

 

[Johnatan56]

Thought this was a given since no UWP support for WinUI 3 and that was officially announced back in July?

Oh dear, Universal Windows Platform: Microsoft says 'no plans to release WinUI 3 for UWP in a stable way'

Focus is on persuading desktop developers to refresh applications for Windows 11

www.theregister.com

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If you are happy with your current functionality in UWP, there is no need to migrate your project type. WinUI 2.x and the Windows SDK will continue to support UWP project types, including bug, reliability, and security fixes.

It is in the article, just a nicer link.

From thurrot:

I know this is a controversial topic for some. But to reiterate the obvious, Microsoft told the press years ago, literally, that it was killing UWP. And despite its mealymouthed public non-explanations about this topic, this new information represents an official and public confirmation that it has taken the first official step towards the future of Windows app development. Which is desktop apps built with Windows App SDK, and not UWP.

Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP

Microsoft continues to baby-step around the obvious, but it has officially deprecated the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

www.thurrott.com

Still so many features missing/weird in WinUI, they are going to have to maintain security updates for a long time if they don't start bringing feature/performance parity (UWP was and imho is still worse than Win32, basically use something else).
Does anyone know if WinUI 3 has Xbox support yet? I know it was in preview, don't know if it was released yet. I tried WinUI 3 beginning of the year for a test project and left because compile and render times were significantly worse (drawing a large table with a few thousand entries in fyne-io was ~2s and WinUI 3 was around 14 and froze the app, might have been doing something wrong though, but gave up as not going to optimize when alternative was already there and easy, and project had a lot of API calls so Golang was nicer (disclaimer, my day job is C#, 4.7, Core, 5, so would hazard it was not back-end issue but rather how I did GUI)).

 

[18days]

To "deprecate" is to express disapproval.

 

[i.got~issues]

To "deprecate" is to express disapproval.

This is true...

But also consider...

Deprecation​

In several fields, deprecation is the discouragement of use of some terminology, feature, design, or practice, typically because it has been superseded or is no longer considered efficient or safe, without completely removing it or prohibiting its use. Wikipedia