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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).
So how s that UWP thing working out for you?
Richard Speed Fri 12 Mar 2021 // 14:19 UTC Share
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Axe-happy Redmond has set the clock ticking on paid apps from its moribund Microsoft Store for Business and Education.
The changes will be imposed from 14 April and the software giant has also demanded that an Azure Active Directory account be used for browsing – no more anonymous nosing.
A wander through the support sections for the store confirmed that while users who had already bought a paid app could continue to use it, no additional licences will be purchasable.
Free apps can still be acquired and the changes only apply to businessstore.microsoft.com or educationstore.microsoft.com. This change doesn t impact apps in the Microsoft Store on Windows 10, added Microsoft. Great news for the three people that bother to use it.
Microsoft just released WinUI 3 - Project Reunion 0.5 Preview. The preview is the first time that WinUI 3 ships inside of the Project Reunion package, which should help developers make modern apps for Windows 10.