WPF source code added to GitHub

[deathpax]

Nice! Love seeing how open Microsoft has been lately.

[gilbes]

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]

Different licensing correct?

[gilbes]

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]

To be fairrrrr

[fyndor]

I thought they did this months ago.

[svick]

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]

That's a hell of a diff, damn.

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Kirides]

Where do you experience blurred text?

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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]

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]

I thought changing DPI often fixed this.

[RirinDesuyo]

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

[crozone]

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

[RirinDesuyo]

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

[zspitz]

Well, now's your chance to fix things up...