title: UWP limitations in desktop apps
body: <p>I know that the new UWP app model has some limitations when comparing to "traditional" Win32 apps.</p>
  
  <p>Let's take Visual Studio Code as an example of a desktop app.</p>
  
  <p><strong>What features of Visual Studio Code were missing or had to be different from user perspective, if it was an UWP app?</strong></p>
  
  <p>EDIT:
  I've done exams for microsoft certification "Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps Using C#" and Exam 70-355: Universal Windows Platform – App Data, Services, and Coding Patterns. So I know something about win rt api. </p>
  
  <p>Please don't bother with answers like "uwp app runs in sandbox". They are useless, because they say nothing about the limitations from users' perspective. I intentionally took real life example, so we can go concrete. </p>
  
  <p>The limitation could be, that your app cannot support 3rd party plugins like custom syntax highlighter or refactorin extension(it was limitation of windows store apps, not sure if its still valid).</p>
  
  <p>Another limitation could be, that your app is not able to take screenshot, because there is no api in uwp for it (not sure it its true, actually)</p>