Windows Presentation Framework News Today

The transition to .NET 6 has left some useful tools behind. The open source community is updating the ideas behind them for a new, cross-platform world.

Way back when, as Microsoft struggled to deliver a follow up to Windows XP, its Longhorn vision sat on top of what it called “the three pillars of Longhorn”: a database-powered object file system called WinFS, a new set of communication tools based on web services code-named Indigo, and a new presentation layer based on

Among the findings, WPF remains most-used desktop framework despite years of promotion for UWP Tim Anderson Thu 6 May 2021 // 12:45 UTC Share Copy The Microsoft-sponsored .NET Foundation has released a survey-based "State of .NET" report showing that efforts to broaden the appeal of the technology beyond its own platform have had limited success so far. The .NET Foundation was set up by Microsoft in 2014, around the time that the cross-platform and open-source .NET Core ...

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.

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...