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		maxxxxx on June 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about ... Winforms did not replace Win32 and WPF did not replace Winforms. That's the problem.

DougWebb on June 13, 2011 [–]

The older libraries may still be around, but they're not the recommended choice anymore and they don't support everything you can do with the newer libraries. It'll be the same with HTML5 and Windows 8: you'll need to switch to develop apps for the new UI, but old apps will still work.

Stormbringer on June 14, 2011 | [–]

It's all about the tooling.

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