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Developers adopting latest and greatest will have to tangle with XAML
Tim Anderson Mon 15 Mar 2021 // 17:45 UTC Share
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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.
Microsoft s .NET 6 is the first long-term release of its revamped development platform for running C#, F#, and to some extent Visual Basic applications on Windows, cross-platform, and on the web. It is a unifying release, integrating what used to be Xamarin Forms under the snappy new name MAUI (Multi-Platform App UI).
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
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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 .NET Core (now just known as .NET) it created a problem: no easy upgrade path for existing .NET Framework applications.
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