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Fair enough, especially that it's a method of gaining experience in doing things a little differently.
I'm only curious because there doesn't seem to be a very active market for UWP apps -- hardly anyone's got a windows phone, and most people go for desktop apps on laptops and desktops.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm thinking "tablets" (first) and then desktops. This app will probably run on XBox and Hololense. I can scale it from some 3 x 4 to 54 inches (well Windows 10 does that). It maintains state.
I would have bought the Surface Go instead of the IPad back when; even now, I haven't touched anything Android or IOS (except my 8 year old IPad [as a pdf reader] ... which obsoleted after the 2nd year).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Well, as someone who has an itoy 3, two android tablets (because I broke one), and two windows tablets, I use:
itoy:
- Not at all, I dumped it on the missus, who uses it exclusively for looking at websites about men's bums.
Android:
- Way better. Good for comms stuff and reading.
- With a decent file manager, it almost becomes usable as a computer, but the user interface makes it difficult to do serious stuff with it.
windows:
- The real thing. I use them for anything I'd do with a desktop or laptop -- In Desktop Mode. UWP mode reduces their usefulness closer to that of Android (if you don't count using the UWP start page or godawful "apps" list abomination to open desktop apps).
But that's me.
If your app is aimed at less techy, more casual users, UWP is probably OK.
Find a discussion group, or whatever, that has your target consumers, and ask them what they like -- a fair number of people on CP will say the same as me.
If it were me asking users, I'd also ask things like "What do you like buttons to look like?" (Although I'd be tempted to phrase it "Do you enjoy hunting for buttons, and tapping everywhere to see if there are buttons, or do you stupidly prefer to be able to see what you're looking at, you old fogey who doesn't understand the way of the future?"
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No idea what "UWP for casual users" means.
At the bottom, is just a different "install package".
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Non-techy people, who only use computers for entertainment and writing letters to Granny.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Your granny uses a Surface Pro? S Mode? Or?
(Granny won't need a keyboard with my app ... and it can talk).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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My granny was an engineer, and probably smarter and more into new tech than many people around here.
I find stupid assumptions annoying.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kind of mandatory: Vast Power Of Certification | Dilbert by Scott Adams[^]
I'll go get cover (and the coat on my way out)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"What do you mean there are no Help files?" It's been Certified!
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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My sympathies. Where are you committed?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You have to give a contact for the app ... so time will tell.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Congrats! In your line of work, you're writing UWP apps?
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This is a product I'm fielding on my own; using what I gained building for others (non UWP).
I found it was easier than I thought to convert a WPF front-end to UWP. And the MS Store is easier to deal with than anything I could come up with (marketing an app).
The store will even try and figure out itself all the devices your app will run on.
And in some ways, UWP makes it a little harder to create an ugly UI.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Good for you - better that than certifiable... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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That might be what he actually meant.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Congrats
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
JaxCoder.com
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Thank you!
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Congratulations !
When you say: "And in some ways, UWP makes it a little harder to create an ugly UI," I want to ask what you use for basic controls ... checkboxes, or panels, or date-time picking. Are there robust 3rd. party controls, like a grid, or, or treeview, out there ?
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I've found that UWP has more "look and feel" properties that you can't arbitrarily mess with (like a minimum size / height).
All the "built-in" UWP controls work well. They are supplemented with 2 main Nugets that provide extra controls that would be in WPF but not UWP currently or are just different. And UWP has some nice controls that WPF doesn't (mostly "flash" IMO).
The Treeview was a Nuget; worked as advertised. Made my own out of a ListView because it was more customizable (but I have particular demands). DataGrid is also a Nuget. Works. (With row templating, "data grids" are not such a big deal anymore).
Virtualy every control (UWP, Windows and WPF) can be reduced to a few primitives: a button, text block or a list.
UWP lets you roll your own just like in Win Forms or WPF. (And no sign of MVVM).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
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Thanks for that thoughtful reply, Gerry !
I look forward to reading your future articles on UWP development 
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I'm better at answering questions than writing about what I don't know.
The worst sin is being boring.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: better at answering questions than writing about what I don't know.
Ahh, if you say so I find trying to write about what code does/should do is a valuable experience ... even better, imho, is trying to teach others.
I see you like Blaise Pascal: are you familiar with his statement: “Nature is a fearful sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.” (Pensées, 1669). The great Argentinian writer, Jorge Borges, discovered this had been mistranslated from the French as "infinite sphere."
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Genuinely wondering how well IntelliSense would work at a command prompt.
We're all familiar with how it works in VS, VS Code and other environments that have implemented the idea. I'm trying to picture the same thing at a command prompt (cmd.exe or a PowerShell session)...would it help, or just get in the way? Although in an ideal world this would be a user setting.
The history buffer (up/down) and tab completion are already big time savers...so why haven't we seen an all-out version of IntelliSense with full context sensitivity for the command prompt yet...?
Would this get any upvote on a MS feedback page (or Windows Insider), or is this a waste of time?
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Nothing wrong with the idea. You can do an incremental search and display in another window while a user is typing (like a "spell checker").
(I think the extra window makes it more impressive ... sort of AI like. But not like Clippy).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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