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Windows App SDK: Project reunion

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Windows App SDK: Project reunion

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- [Instructor] Until recently, Microsoft frameworks and SDKs were closely coupled to Windows, but that is changing. Microsoft is on a multi-year journey to decouple as many libraries and SDKs as they can from their flagship operating system. There have been two initiatives to make this happen. The .NET decoupling happened with the release of .NET6 in 2021, which unified the SDK, base libraries, and runtimes across various platforms, making it cross-platform and independent of the Windows operating system. The more recent decoupling happened with the new Windows App SDK released in 2024. It provides a set of Windows APIs that are independent from the Windows SDKs. Both of these are important milestones, but I'm focusing on the SDK in this video. The reason I've included it in this chapter is because it offers some interesting enhancements for desktop developers. To be clear, the Windows App SDK is not a direct replacement for the Windows operating system SDKs, but rather an extension…

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