Happy Thanksgiving! Thankful for bluesky where most of us are now mostly hanging out. Come join us and leave this dreadful place bsky.app/profile/dotmorten.b…

Blogged: Building your first Microsoft.UI.Reactor App xaml.dev/post/your-first-mic… #WinUI

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Project templates are now available for Microsoft.UI.Reactor. Run 'dotnet new install Microsoft.UI.Reactor.ProjectTemplates' to install, then 'dotnet new reactorapp' to build your first project. #winui

Windows App SDK 2.2 just landed: nuget.org/packages/Microsoft… OMD Diff: omds.xaml.dev/WinAppSDK_2.2.… Release notes: github.com/microsoft/Windows… I'm liking the new ApplicationData API for unpackaged apps. That will make life a lot simpler.

Microsoft is finally trying to kill Windows 11’s web app slop by encouraging developers to build native apps using WinUI 🥳 At Build 2026, Microsoft pushed developers to build native Windows apps using WinUI, and this matters more than it sounds. For years, Windows has felt slower and messier because too many experiences leaned on web wrappers, React Native, Electron, or WebView2-style layers. Even parts of the Windows 11 Start menu used React Native, including the Recommended section. Now Microsoft says WinUI is the production platform for Windows apps, and it has “no intention” of building another UI framework. It’s even dropping the WinUI 3 branding and calling it just WinUI to make the commitment clearer. The technical work is also real: lower memory usage, fewer bugs, system compositor work, DataGrid, Charting, better WPF/WinForms interop, and AI-assisted migration tools. This is exactly what Windows needs... not more web wrappers pretending to be native apps. A faster, consistent, native Windows platform again!

Watch: Microsoft pledges support for WinUI, denies plans to build a new framework. It'll make WinUI the best modern framework for Windows and continue to work on other frameworks as well.

This is an interesting project that could make building WinUI apps easier for AI development. I’m glad to see it’s NOT a new UI framework but instead just a new approach to an existing one.

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Want to learn more about Microsoft.UI.Reactor? "Building WinUI Apps with C# First Patterns and AI Assisted Workflows" build.microsoft.com/en-US/se… #WinUI #msbuild

Introducing @Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact developer PC engineered with NVIDIA RTX Spark silicon and built on the Windows developer platform, designed for local-first AI development. #MSBuild

All the Windows developer announcements today: blogs.windows.com/windowsdev…

Surface RTX Dev Box: microsoft.com/en-us/surface/…

Surface RTX Dev Box: youtube.com/watch?v=vzD4OvMI…

I got a serious case of FOMO right now. First #msbuild I'm not attending in person

github.com/microsoft/win-dev… Getting agents to understand WinUI is important, we recognize that they are trained so much better for other libraries out of the box. With this new set of skills we are optimizing for creating the best UX as efficiently as possible with a coding agent!

Great thread on Microsoft.UI.Reactor