![]() UADO currently runs on iOS, Android, WebAssembly, Windows Store and now on Windows 7 as well. Also, to try Uno’s support for WinUI on Windows 7, we ported our UADO (Universal Azure Dev Ops) app to Windows 7 and to our delight it works just great. One of our customers, HubSE, has been using Uno to modernize their LOB applications and they saved 10x the time in the process. We’ve had great experiences working with customers modernizing their rich internet/web applications with hundreds of screens with charts and grids, etc. We think WebAssembly is ready for prime time. Uno Platform in Enterprise Scenarios and on Windows 7 Given the poll stats above, there are at least 1,000,000 reasons why we think it is important to provide support for Windows 7 and help put WinUI Everywhere. NET developer community size is around 3-4 million developers. A similar survey on CodeProject unveiled that over 33% of the developers polled there plan to target Windows 7 past its end of support date. ![]() In addition, in our quick Twitter survey we discovered that 22% of the developers we polled have a need to target Windows 7 as their deployment OS beyond the end of support date, some 12% even targeting for at least 3 more. While Windows 10 is clearly gaining market share (and we love it), Windows 7 still has 3x more market share than MacOS. January 2020 is around the corner and it still holds around 30% of the market share according to NetMarketShare or Global Stats statcounter. In a way, it has a similar reputation to Windows XP. Windows 7 is going to go down in history as one of the most used operating systems. Windows 7 extended end of life is Januso why support it? With Uno-built apps you are porting your complete UWP/WinUI application to Window s 7 by using WebAssembly. It allows for mixing different UIs from UWP/WinUI, Windows Forms and WPF, allowing developers to gradually modernize older desktop apps with new functionality found in UWP/WinUI. XAML Islands enable creation of applications with ‘hybrid UI’. Run your app on Chromium through Electron.Your Windows 7 will need Chrome installed on it. With this tie-in, when using Uno Platform to get your UWP/WinUI 3.0 and later apps on Windows 7 you now have two options for running your app: If you have been paying close attention to Uno GitHub repo you might have noticed some UWP code appear in it. Right after //build 2019 we started working together with Microsoft to bring full WinUI XAML support in Uno while Microsoft open sourced it. As of today, with Uno Platform WinUI can also run on Windows 7 broadening its reach beyond UWP apps to traditional Win32 applications by utilizing WebAssembly. WinUI 3.0 will ship independently of Windows, allowing its features and capabilities to be used on in-market versions of Windows 10. With Uno Platform developers can bring their WinUI-powered code everywhere WebAssembly runs, even Windows 7.” How it works under the hood ![]() Mike Harsh, Group Program Manager at Microsoft added, “We are pleased to see open source projects like Uno Platform contributing to the Windows developer ecosystem by extending the reach of WinUI to other platforms. “We are very proud to work closely with Microsoft to ensure Uno Platform can provide a first-class experience to bring WinUI everywhere, including iOS, Android, Web and even Windows 7!” ![]() “We are delighted to see WinUI 3.0 reach Alpha stage” said Francois Tanguay, CEO of Uno Platform. Uno Platform is Open Source (Apache 2.0) and available on GitHub. ![]() The Uno Platform does this by providing full API definitions of the Universal Windows Platform and implementations of parts of the API – such as Windows.UI.XAML. To avoid having to learn the UI-layout techniques and approaches for each platform, the Uno Platform mimics the Windows XAML approach of defining UI and layouts. The Uno Platform enables C# and XAML based code to run on iOS, Android, and WebAssembly. This is just one of the scenarios Uno Platform can play in making WinUI run everywhere. Just as it is important to plan for the future of your Windows development, it is also important to make sure your future UI stack investments are going to be able to run on previous versions of Windows. WinUI is the future of developing beautiful Fluent experiences on Windows 10, Windows 10X and future Windows versions to come. ![]()
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