UWP 多实例与多视图

Question

I am working on a tabbed editor with multiple windows. User can open new tabs to edit different files or open a new window to edit different sets of files, also drag and drop across windows is supported. I want to know which approach will be better, should I create multiple instances of the app or should I use multiple views to display different windows. What are the pros and cons of each approach??

Answer 1

The specific display mode needs to be determined according to the actual usage of your application.

The common design of UWP application is single instance and multiple views. Multi-instance is only for desktop and IOT devices, and there are some restrictions on the background task, the specific content can check this document .

In your editor application, you can do different treatments for different situations.

If the user only needs to edit a single file, then create multiple tabs under the current application view. If the user needs to edit or browse multiple files at the same time, you may consider adding a button in the editor so that the user can separate it into a new window.

About the application scenarios of multi-view, there are instructions in this document:

• Show multiple views for an app

Thanks.