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Upgrade from .NET Framework to .NET 5 can be hard. New official tool may help... slightly This tool is not supported in any way. Nobody will be on the hook for fixing any issues with it Tim Anderson Thu 4 Mar 2021 // 09:30 UTC Share Copy Ignite Microsoft has previewed a new upgrade assistant to help developers port .NET Framework applications to .NET 5.0, but it is a long way from a complete solution. When Microsoft forked the .NET Framework to become the open source .NE...

| 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...

Multi-platform App UI support for Android and iOS are among the list of enhancements in the unified development platform.

Microsoft has released .NET 6 Preview 1. It comes with a bunch of features including support for Apple Silicon, Blazor, Mult-platform App UI toolkit, a better CLI, and performance enhancements.

Unified? Kind of, but now there are two .NET runtimes in the official SDK Tim Anderson Thu 18 Feb 2021 // 13:50 UTC Share Copy Microsoft has shipped the first preview of .NET 6.0, the first long-term support release of its newly unified application platform, promising native Apple Silicon support, desktop applications on ARM64, and a ton of updates to key frameworks like ASP.NET Core. Program manager Richard Lander described .NET 6 as "the final parts of the .NET unifica...

Todays Best Practices for Migrating Windows apps to Windows on Arm 28 Jan 2021CPOL12 min read In this article, well demonstrate the performance hit a sample application takes under emulation, and demonstrate how to port an existing codebase to Windows on Arm. We will show how to set up your development environment to target the ARM64 processor using .NET framework 4.8. This article is in the Product Showcase section for our sponsors at CodeProject. These ...

Also: Survey shows IDEs dominance among .NET Core developers, despite cross-platform options Tim Anderson Thu 21 Jan 2021 // 14:13 UTC Share Copy Preview 3 of Visual Studio 2019 16.9, the next big release of Microsofts Windows IDE, features debugging for Chromium-based WebView, audio cues in tests, and updated C++ support. The Visual Studio release cycle is based around minor version updates every three or four months with previews in between. Version 16.9 will be a "ser...

Its been almost a decade since Microsoft promised developers the ability to run legacy and modern UWP apps on Windows, starting with Windows 8 in Microsofts first shot against Apples iPad and the then new world of touch-enabled tablets and its subsequent Windows 10 convertible laptops.   SEE: (TechRepublic) Project Reunion builds on Microsoft changing the name of the Win32 API to the Windows API, and then rolling that API into the UWP API, so developers can add modern features to desktop app...