Over the last couple of years there have been a couple of key developments in the .NET world. However, despite a lot of rhetoric from Microsoft about building a better developer ecosystem, the reality is that the current landscape for building apps using .NET is a mess and no amount of sugar coating is going to fix that. In this post I’m going to try to position a number of technologies in the hope that I can share where I think things are going.

UWP

If you’re thinking that I missed UWP out of the list of technologies in the title, you’d be 100% right. Microsoft hasn’t confirmed this (and in much the same way that Silverlight was never discontinued, I doubt anyone will say this) but UWP as it stands today is effectively end-of-life. I wouldn’t be expecting any major updates to UWP any time soon. I doubt it will get NetStandard 2.1 or .NET 5 support.

Let’s keep going and we’ll touch back on this point in order to discuss what the replacement is.

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