At last year's Build, Microsoft announced Project Reunion, its latest attempt to bring the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and Win32 apps together by decoupling APIs from the operating system itself ...

A developer asked Microsoft's WinUI 3 dev team about delayed open source plans for the nearly two-year-old project that serves as the company's next-gen UI library for creating Windows apps. The ...

The development tool for rapid prototyping of XAML code is now available as open source. It is on its way to version 2.0 with ...

Microsoft just released the WinUI 3 Project Reunion 0.5 preview. It is the first release of Win UI 3 that ships inside the Project Reunion package. The preview also adds support for in-app acrylic and ...

The .NET ecosystem can seem confusing as Microsoft transitions from the old Windows-only .NET Framework to an open-source, cross-platform approach filled with moving parts for a variety of targets.

Microsoft has launched a new website for the Windows UI Library (WinUI) (spotted by Rafael Rivera on Twitter) that provides more information on the various advantages of the modern libraries for the ...

It’s hard to choose a Windows UI framework. After all, there are so many of them. Do you build an application using the familiar WinForms, the more modern Windows Presentation Framework, or Windows 10 ...

Microsoft has launched a flashy new website dedicated to WinUI, its developer toolset for building Fluent Design user interfaces for Windows 10 and Windows 10X devices. The company took the wraps off ...

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Microsoft is preparing to make Windows 11's user interface framework, Windows UI Library (WinUI), more open to community involvement. Although many developers have asked for it to be fully open source ...