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Windows Community Toolkit 8.0.0 Simplifies Code Portability on Windows Platform
Microsoft released version 8.0.0 of the Windows Community Toolkit in September 2023. The updated version unifies the namespaces for both WinUI 3 and UWP code, simplifying the code portability for developers.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of April 19th, 2021
This past week was marked by the announcement of Visual Studio 2022, the first 64-bit version of the popular .NET IDE. InfoQ examined this and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of April 19th, 2021.
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Writing Native Windows Apps with React and WinUI 3
The latest releases of React Native Windows, a Microsoft framework for building native Windows 10 applications, upgrade to the latest React Native version (0.64) and experimentally support WinUI 3 (in preview). Microsoft also maintains react-native-macos for native MacOS applications.
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Microsoft Releases Project Reunion 0.5 Preview
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Project Reunion 0.5 Preview, a set of developer components and tools that unifies access to existing Win32 and UWP APIs under a single API layer, decoupled from the operating system. The new release also includes the first stable release of WinUI 3, the newest version of the native UI platform for Windows 10.
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With Project Reunion Microsoft is Attempting to Unify Win32 and UWP APIs
At Build 2020, Microsoft announced Project Reunion with the aim of unifying app development across multiple Windows 10 versions and devices. The first three components of Project Reunion available to developers in preview are WinUI 3, WebView2 and MSIX (MSIX-Core).
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Visual Studio 2017 15.9 Previews Expanded C++ Debugging
Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2017 15.9; this release highlights improvements to C++ debugging and additional features benefiting Universal Windows Application (UWP) developers.
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Modernizing Windows Desktop Applications with XAML Islands
You may be under the impression that Windows desktop development is pretty much dead, yet according to the telemetry data in Visual Studio, there are roughly 2.4 million developers actively working on desktop applications each month, up 50% from 20 months ago. With such a large community to support, Microsoft is looking at ways to help developers integrate those assets into Windows 10.
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New UWP and Win32 Application Distribution Models
.NET has had support for applications that can automatically update themselves since the introduction of ClickOnce technology in 2005. Under the ClickOnce model, WinForms and WPF applications would check a pre-configured location on startup for newer versions. Soon the same capability will be available for private distributed UWP applications.
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Windowing in Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Applications
Continuing our series on UWP for line of business applications, we turn our attention to another frequently cited issue: multiple window support. Microsoft intends to not only answer that request, but surpass it with multiple windowing modes including 3D.
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A Look at the Windows Community Toolkit for UWP
In order to address the needs of line of business developers, Microsoft is offering the Windows Community Toolkit for UWP. With two major releases in as many months, this library acts as a test ground for new UWP controls and features.
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Microsoft Positions UWP for Line of Business Applications
Microsoft is positioning UWP for traditional line of business (LOB) applications with an emphasis on rapid application development (RAD) using the Windows Template Studio. But that’s not all they’re doing to entice LOB developers onto the UWP platform.
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An Introduction to the Windows Template Studio for Desktop Development
Over the last couple of decades, the amount of boilerplate code necessary to develop Windows applications has increased dramatically, which takes away from .NET’s early roots as a RAD or Rapid Application Development framework. Microsoft’s attempt to counter-act this is the Windows Template Studio for UWP applications.
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Universal Windows Platform Apps Start to Retrace Win32 Functionality
Microsoft is loosening some of the restrictions on UWP apps to entice more developers to switch. Greater access to the local file system, multi-instancing, and console app support is coming to UWP.
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Realm Extends its .NET Stack Support with Realm .NET
After introducing support for .NET Core last summer to build mobile applications using C#, Realm announced Realm .NET, a set of new components that allow developers a better integration with their .NET stack.
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UWP Community Toolkit Prepares for Windows Fluent Design
Microsoft continues to prepare for the forthcoming Fall Creators Update for Windows 10, and they are upgrading developers tools and resources as part of these preparations. The UWP Community Toolkit (UCT) has been updated to take advantage of Microsoft's new Fluent Design Language that will eventually become the new user interface for Windows 10.