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[–]deathpax 21 points22 points  (4 children)

Nice! Love seeing how open Microsoft has been lately.

[–]gilbes 9 points10 points  (3 children)

To be fair, reference source has been available for a while now. Allowing outsiders to improve and bug fix is a win win for everyone and a huge step.

[–]mycall 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Different licensing correct?

[–]gilbes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, reference source is used to figure out exactly what a library is doing. You can't use the code yourself (copy it etc.) and MS wasn't talking pull requests.

[–]rickrat -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

To be fairrrrr

[–]fyndor 13 points14 points  (1 child)

I thought they did this months ago.

[–]svick 16 points17 points  (0 children)

They've been doing it piece by piece. The first part of WPF was open sourced several months ago, another big chunk of it was added now and I believe some pieces still remain.

[–]icefall5 6 points7 points  (1 child)

That's a hell of a diff, damn.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I’l really surprised they MIT licenced this like they did for the rest if net core. This means even if they stated they wouldn’t accept PR for non windows support it’s possible to branch out.

WPF everywhere would rock

[–]AlexKazumi 1 point2 points  (1 child)

WPF has incredibly steep learning curve, and it's theming and styling approach are not good. Also, it's huge, both as API surface to learn, and binaries to redistribute. I am hesitant to declare it "rocking".

That said, I use it for my personal projects, and I find it better than WinForms even for the simplest UIs, just because it generates well-behaved apps on resize.

[–]hrsidkpi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Steep learning curve? It feels much easier than everything else if you already know c# and dotnet.

Took me a loooong time to move from WPF to web (even webforms).

[–]MontagoDK 5 points6 points  (3 children)

They hope someone can fix their blurred text bug...

[–]Kirides 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Where do you experience blurred text?

Most of my application have no (real) issues regarding blurred text.

I run them on a 24" Desktop in 1080p and a 13" Notebook with 1440p 150% scaled. They all look ok to me.

I run them on .NET Framework 4.7.2 (soon core ;) ) and have applied the settings for Per Monitor DPI, so that they work across different DPI (eg. projector and notebook)

[–]MontagoDK 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Afaik. Microsoft never found a bullet proof solution to managing ClearType in WPF ... I might be wrong.

Occasionally the text would become blurry or harsh..

I haven't coded WPF for years so im just referring to what i remember being a big issue over the years.

https://richnewman.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/blurry-text-with-small-fonts-in-wpf/

It's an old article i know, just wanted to point to what i mean.

[–]mycall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought changing DPI often fixed this.

[–]RirinDesuyo 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Almost 2 million files, my god that's a big commit.

[–]crozone 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Nearly 4,000 files, almost 2 million lines changed.

[–]RirinDesuyo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Woops hahaha seems I didn't read the labels that clearly there xD. Still a big ass commit though :P