Tag: .net
React Native and why Microsoft uses it for its own cross-platform development
Interview: Microsoft is among the biggest users of React Native for cross-platform development, despite having its own home-grown […]
.NET Smart Components experiment the “Visual Basic” of AI programming?
Microsoft has introduced experimental .NET Smart Components as an effort to make AI programming within reach for every […]
Microsoft struggles to address fallout from Windows Forms designer failure in 64-bit Visual Studio
An improved 32-bit out of process designer is Microsoft’s solution to broken support for legacy 32-bit Windows Forms […]
Visual Studio’s new extensibility model improves, yet frustrates devs with long preview and limited capability
Microsoft’s refreshed out-of-process extensibility model for Visual Studio – still in preview – now supports publication of extensions […]
Microsoft will focus on cloudy Aspire stack in .NET 9 and Visual Studio – for closer ties to Azure?
Microsoft will focus on the Aspire stack in .NET 9, now in preview and likely to be released […]
WebAssembly advanced in 2023 – but .NET cannot yet use Wasm garbage collection
WebAssembly added key features in 2023 and usage in the browser grew by 70 percent – but Microsoft […]
Ubuntu chiselled containers arrive for .NET – smaller, more secure, but beware ‘sharp edges’
Ubuntu has made its chiselled containers for .NET generally available, providing a claimed 20 percent performance improvement for […]
Visual Studio 17.8 released with .NET 8, but progress is slow with much-requested features
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 17.8 as part of its .NET 8 release wave, with hundreds of new […]
Focus on full-stack Blazor web framework as .NET 8 RC2 and new Visual Studio preview arrives
Microsoft’s .NET 8 Release Candidate 2 is out, and the last release candidate of what will be a […]
Moq testing framework under fire for phone-home SponsorLink monetization
A popular open source mocking framework for .NET is under fire from developers, following the inclusion of SponsorLink, […]