With the release of Team Foundation Server 2018, Microsoft announced they would no longer support the ‘old’ XAML based builds. Last week with the introduction of Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 RC2(pfew), they confirmed that XAML Builds will be re-enabled for legacy purposes. A lot of customers were blocked from upgrading as XAML builds were no longer supported. With Update 2, XAML builds are re-enabled but deprecated, meaning there will be no further investment in this area.
That is great news because a lot of my customers were postponing an update because they didn’t had time to migrate away from the XAML builds (yet).