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0 pointsdep_b9y ago0 comments

XAML and MVVM are awesome, but I wouldn't touch Forms with a ten foot pole. I really miss having something like the bindings like they work in WPF in Xcode

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xeromal9y ago

I occasionally go on rants when remembering the WPF days and realizing I now spending 30% of my time fixing dumb stuff like NPM breaking, gulp going crazy, or realizing I'm using 6 month outdated tools because the kids found a better one. I felt like I really had a chance to learn WPF.

V-29y ago

In my opinion WPF was MVVM done badly, and never fixed. Having to implement complex converters just to map a couple of radiobuttons to an enum was ridiculous. The amount of boilerplate made it look like a joke. As someone said, WPF makes the difficult simple, and the simple - next to impossible.

JamesBarney9y ago

I think you statement is true when people tried to follow MVVM with a religious zeal. In my experience WPF/MVVM worked far better for people who took a more pragmatic approach to the code behind.

I always found that WPF/MVVM made the 90% use case really easy, and the 10% use case ridiculously hard. So I usually used MVVM for the 90% case, and the code behind for 10% case. People I know who shared this philosophy with me had a lot more luck with WPF then the zealots.

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