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pretty much every windows GUI framework is trash or a pain in the ass to deal with except for Avalonia (my beloved), but it's more cross platform.
I'm not sure if this is 100% real but it very well could be. although imo makes me think of skill issue (not because the system makes sense, but these problems don't really seem like problems to me, just minor set backs)
This is why everything is a goddamn web app now.
well, no. everything is a god damn web app because everything runs browsers.
so why write native (device) applications if the device can run a browser ? just write code for the browser, which also runs on desktop. now you have a cross platform app without needing 5 different teams
I haven't done much with UI in general, but the one time I thought of making some UI stuff in windows I gave up.
Even modifying an existing .net program someone else made for a feature I wanted was a nightmare.
Yep, I was shocked to see that there is no defacto 1st party framework and during my time searching online I found lots of "use x, use y, no y is dead and none uses it, no x is terrible" which is how I found Avalonia.
I still don't think there's a solid Windows gui framework, but I haven't looked in years.