Tag: .net
Interview: Avalonia XPF introduced for WPF on Mac, Linux and eventually mobile
The team behind Avalonia UI, an open source project for cross-platform GUI applications based on Windows Presentation Foundation […]
Microsoft updates its .NET language strategy, keeps Visual Basic alive but near-frozen
Microsoft has updated its .NET language strategy for the first time since 2017, the most notable change being […]
New Visual Studio preview has intent-based suggestions, spell check and Markdown editor but devs push for new designer
Microsoft has released preview 3 of Visual Studio 17.5, with new features including a spell checker for comments, […]
Improved Durable Functions coming to Microsoft’s Azure Functions service – but what about cold start?
Microsoft’s Anirudh Garg, who leads the engineering team for Azure Functions, has posted abut planned improvements to the […]
What if C# were like Go? Open source bflat has ‘Go-inspired tooling’, now targets bare metal
Updated Developer Michal Strehovský has released bflat 7.0.1, with support for C# applications that run on bare metal […]
Microsoft plans pre-compiled queries for Entity Framework, and may replace old and crufty .NET SQL Server provider
Microsoft has published its plans for Entity Framework (EF) Core 8, its .NET ORM (Object-relational mapping) library, including […]
Microsoft worries Windows desktop developers by calling WPF a ‘community run project’
A Microsoft .NET Community Standup has left Windows desktop developers wondering what kind of future, if any, the […]
Microsoft: Platform Invoke in .NET 7.0 sweeps away ‘old weird behaviors’ in fundamental shift
Microsoft has introduced a new way to interop with native code in the just-released .NET 7, a fundamental […]
Microsoft releases .NET 7 spanning Windows to WebAssembly, but can it keep up with the modern web platform?
Microsoft has released .NET 7, along with a flurry of updates to related frameworks and tools, including C# […]
Microsoft emits .NET 7 early release licensed for production, new Visual Studio preview
Microsoft has released .NET 7 Release Candidate (RC) 1, and according to the team: “This is the first […]