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Preview 11 of Microsoft’s .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), a cross-platform development framework for creating native mobile and desktop applications, has arrived, bringing introductory support for Windows 11 UI styling and support for multi-window applications. An evolution of Xamarin.Forms, .NET MAUI allows .NET developers to build native apps for iOS, Android, MacOS, and Windows with […]

Microsoft has published a second release candidate for its upcoming .NET 6 software development platform. The “go live” release candidate, .NET 6 RC2, was published October 12. RC2 has been tested on, and is supported on, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 5. The new release candidate can be downloaded from dotnet.microsoft.com. A bulletin on RC2 cites […]

Microsoft said its compiler and standard library are feature-complete for C++ 20 in Visual Studio 2019 16.10, while a 16.11 preview centres on Hot Reload and .NET MAUI.

Microsoft said its compiler and standard library are feature-complete for C++ 20 in Visual Studio 2019 16.10, while a 16.11 preview centers on Hot Reload and .NET MAUI.

Faster Entity Framework, complete C++ 20 support in Visual Studio, but complications remain Tim Anderson Thu 27 May 2021 // 10:02 UTC Share Copy Build Microsoft has previewed Hot Reload for .NET development, enabling on-the-fly changes to source code that are applied to a running application. The company also set the date for the first production release of .NET 6: November 9. Long-time Microsoft-platform developers will recall Edit and continue (EnC) as a feature of Vis...

Pandemic making permanent changes to developer remote working Tim Anderson Mon 26 Apr 2021 // 12:23 UTC Share Copy The world has more developers than ever, a new SlashData survey has reported - with 1.4 million more JavaScript developers than six months ago - and developer work patterns have been permanently altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. SlashDatas six-monthly State of the Developer Nation report is based on a survey of over 19,000 developers combined with the resear...

Apr 19, 2021 12:00 EDT with 23 comments Today, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2022 along with its first public preview coming this summer. The next major release of Microsofts flagship development toolkit will be "faster, more approachable, and more lightweight", according to Amanda Silver, who made the announcement on Microsofts DevBlogs. One of the big news with Visual Studio 2022 is going to be the transition to a 64-bit app. Indeed, Microsoft has been making a push towards ...

BlazorWebView arrives on desktop applications. Too convoluted? Tim Anderson Tue 13 Apr 2021 // 08:30 UTC Share Copy Microsoft has shipped preview 3 of its forthcoming .NET 6 framework with a bunch of updates including the addition of Windows desktop to its Multi-platform App UI (MAUI). As the first long-term support version of the supposedly unified framework, .NET 6.0 is expected to be completed in November. Like .NET 5.0, it is no longer designated .NET Core, though it...

Developers adopting latest and greatest will have to tangle with XAML Tim Anderson Mon 15 Mar 2021 // 17:45 UTC Share Copy Microsoft has released its second preview of .NET 6, but confirmed there will be no visual designer for WinUI 3.0 when it comes out in November this year. WinUI 3.0 is intended to be the primary official framework for Windows desktop applications. Microsofts .NET 6 is the first long-term release of its revamped development platform for running C#, F#...

| Introducing Microsoft .NET 6 Microsoft is unveiling its road map for the next major release of .NET, along with a first preview download. Thinkstock With the release last year of .NET 5, Microsoft switched its platform development away from the 20-year-old .NET Framework to the newer, cross-platform, open source .NET Core. The .NET Framework has moved into maintenance mode, while the new .NET completes its separation from Windows release cycles with a new cadence of ann...