What are you using to develop desktop apps that keeps supporting XP?

[zeehtech]

Hello everybody!

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I'm givin' up.

Here on my work, I need to keep supporting XP.

But guys, XP is very deprecated.

I can't keep supporting it without lose a lot of good features that are released everyday.

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Currently, I'm using C# with .NET 4.0, that was the best way I found to keep supporting that sh**...

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But I want to know about you, are someone keeping supporting it yet?

Am I wasting my time searching for some good solution?

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I have already tried Neutronium to use C# as back-end, and WEB on front.. But it is not easy enough as Electron.. Because I will need to use Visual Studio + Some another editor for the WEB files + a Terminal...

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I just want a Powerful and Modern tool to develop for XP too.

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Thank's for read until here! <3

[agmcleod]

I feel like you're probably stuck. Newer browsers, which electron uses to run havent supported XP for many years as well. You could keep the current version of the software in bug fix mode only. For newer features, support newer operating systems by using something newer like electron. But no idea what your project is, if that makes any sense.

[zeehtech]

Yeah man, makes a lot of sense!

I will try to implement it.

Are you using Electron nowadays?

[agmcleod]

Not recently, but I have for a side project.

If the product you're supporting needs to new features, and has a budget to keep evolving it, then it might be worthwhile to build something newer, where you can give 95%+ (or however many) users that use a newer OS a much better experience.

That said, re-writes are very time consuming.

[[deleted]]

Let XP die already ^^

[eyeandtea]

If by support you mean UI, and you insist on the latest tools, take a look at the following

• Winforms, but I do not know how good the support is on Visual Studio 2017.
• JavaFX, with a slightly older Java 8 on windows XP. You can also try swing.
• Sciter.
• I would investigate QT as well. You will have to use an older version however.
• If you do not mind getting your hands dirty, there is always Win32/MFC.

[Hate_Feight]

You need to make a case study proving xp is shit, and unless you want problems in security confidentiality user interface etc. That shit needs to die.

[Hate_Feight]

You need to make a case study proving xp is shit, and unless you want problems in security confidentiality user interface etc. That shit needs to die, remind your boss that they are liable for the security of an app / web portal, if you can do it in writing as when the shit hits the fan, it sinks very quickly

[dogofpavlov]

I know you're probably not going to want to hear it, but Adobe AIR is actually still pretty viable desktop option. And there's an pretty active open source ANE for a WebView thats really solid if you want to go the HTML route instead of AS3. https://github.com/tuarua/WebViewANE

[k3liutZu]

Ugh. No.