CHAPTER 14
Leveraging Existing Code
If you’re like us and you have been using Microsoft-based technologies to build user interfaces, you will likely be quite skeptical about the UWP and Windows 10 app development in general. It’s been a long hard road for us. .NET was introduced on February 2002 and with it came WinForms, a replacement for Visual Basic 6 and MFC. Three years later (2005), WinForms was essentially supplanted (at least in the minds of Microsoft) by the paradigm-shifting Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Two years later (2007), Silverlight was introduced as an alternative to the heavy WPF for line of business applications, and ...
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