What is the current Windows UI tech? Silverlight? UWP?

Question

I&rsquo;ve lost track of what Microsoft&rsquo;s officially endorsed way of building cross platform applications for Windows and Xbox is.There was silver light, UWP, others?What would I use if I wanted to build an Xbox/Windows app?

ss48 · Accepted Answer

I would guess the Xbox Game Development Kit. You could probably use Unreal Engine with this.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/gdk/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/gdk/_content/gc/get...
Microsoft lately seems to try to have .NET target every platform, but has a different framework for different combinations you want to target.

sargstuff · Answer

ASP.NET Core Blazor WebAssembly ?? : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/host-an...short-term release : https://devclass.com/2022/11/09/microsoft-releases-net-7-spa...

clusmore · Answer

MAUI: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/what-is-maui?v...

wmf · Answer

WinUI? https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-xaml/

webdevver · Answer

i wonder if its possible to run win32 apps on xbox?

What is the current Windows UI tech? Silverlight? UWP?

I’ve lost track of what Microsoft’s officially endorsed way of building cross platform applications for Windows and Xbox is.
There was silver light, UWP, others?
What would I use if I wanted to build an Xbox/Windows app?

ASP.NET Core Blazor WebAssembly ?? : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/host-an...
short-term release : https://devclass.com/2022/11/09/microsoft-releases-net-7-spa...

MAUI: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/what-is-maui?v...

WinUI? https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-xaml/

i wonder if its possible to run win32 apps on xbox?