In the .NET community standup YouTube stream it was just confirmed that WPF maintenance has been outsourced to IDC [Microsoft India Development Center] where projects historically has gone to die. So no one left in Redmond really working on it. 

Welcome to the emerging new world of Microsoft-centric software development. Want to code a desktop app? Take your tooling pick from WPF, WinForms, UWP, .NET MAUI, Win UI, Blazor, Project Reunion ... and who knows what's next.  

• Xamarin fastlane: "There was an error while syncing the developer information: 'Limit of requests to iTunes Connect is reached.'"
• MSIX Package Project with WPF App - Create App Packages no longer works.  

We just released a GA version of .NET Core 3.0 that includes support for Windows Forms and WPF. And along with that release we’re happy to announce the first preview version of the Windows Forms Designer for .NET Core projects! 

All future investment in .NET will be in .NET Core. This includes:  Runtime,   JIT , AOT,   GC,  BCL (Base Class Library),  C#, VB .NET , F#, ASP.NET,  Entity Framework ,  ML.NET,  WinForms, WPF  and Xamarin.  

Avalonia is a WPF-inspired cross-platform XAML-based UI framework providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of OSs: Windows (.NET Framework, .NET Core), Linux (GTK), MacOS, Android and iOS. 

1. Debugging WPF Applications
2. Stepping Through Code
3. Working with Debug Windows
4. Debugger Visualizers and Trace Listeners
5. XAML Debugging
6. Analyzing the UI Performances
7. Analyzing the Application Performances 

The .NET Framework 4.7 includes improvements in several areas:

1. High DPI support for Windows Forms applications on Windows 10
   
2. Touch support for WPF applications on Windows 10
   
3. Enhanced cryptography support
   
4. Performance and reliability improvements