Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF

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Posted on September 12, 2014

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Introduction

As a WPF developer for years I was recently concerned by the new direction chosen by Microsoft on its client platforms with the rise of the brand new WinRT framework.

I was concerned for good reasons: I’ve suffered from the collateral damages of the Silverlight failure, and as the proverb says “once bitten, twice shy”.
Since 2009 I have put a huge personal and professional investment in WPF, using it to develop LOB applications in the financial industry, and now I’m even providing training on this topic.
So as a professional developer and trainer the future of WPF is critical for me so I’ve studied this issue more thoroughly.

In this article I’ll share my findings with you, in a completely objective and transparent manner, and I hope you’ll provide your own facts, so that the community can have a better vision of the future of WPF.
In the last part of this article I provide some strategies for businesses and individual developers.

Some reasons to worry

First I’ll start by presenting the signs that are worrying me, and should worry you too if you are a WPF stakeholder.

WPF team’s blog is idle

As every Microsoft technical team the WPF development team owns a blog where the team’s members share their expertise on WPF with the community.
The last article of this blog is dated from may 2011 so more than 3 years ago, precisely when WinRT was starting to emerge as the next big thing.
An idle blog could mean a lot of things but