>Razor for XAML
I sometimes wonder if it would be easier to skip the XAML altogether and build the object model in code.
I sometimes wonder if it would be easier to skip the XAML altogether and build the object model in code.
What a completely flat-out wrong expectation about the state of LoB apps. But even worse: after they saw no-one was using Blend they killed it off and made Windows 10’s default WPF look so awful, as if to retroactively punish anyone for using WPF at all.
> who would seamlessly hand-off their visually-designed XAML to the implementation engs for data-binding and whatnot.
true, that was a wrong approach for LoB apps. But this is a fairly typical for workflow what happens with end user web apps nowadays. People use something like Figma + React instead of Bend + WPF.
Maybe MS assumed that WPF would be commonly used for end user software. Instead the web invaded the desktop in the form of electron.