.NET Blog

Update to the .NET language strategy

February 6, 2023 Feb 6, 2023 02/6/23

Kathleen Dollard

Interested in what is going on and the future of .NET languages, (C#, F#, and Visual Basic)? We have just published an updated version of the .NET Language Strategy on our documentation!

Play Audio and Video in .NET MAUI apps with the new MediaElement

January 31, 2023 Jan 31, 2023 01/31/23

Gerald Versluis

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit MediaElement v1.0 is now available! Check out how to get started with playing audio and (live) video in your .NET MAUI app.

Using Command Binding in Windows Forms apps to go Cross-Platform

January 25, 2023 Jan 25, 2023 01/25/23

Klaus Loeffelmann

The WinForms code-behind approach has always made app development in WinForms unrivaled fast. For complex line-of-business apps, however, it can become an architectural challenge. New Command- and Data Binding Features in .NET 7 make UI-Controllers and MVVM an alternative and allow them also be reused in UI stacks like .NET MAUI.

5 .NET MAUI Features for Building Great Desktop Apps

January 23, 2023 Jan 23, 2023 01/23/23

James Montemagno

When developing desktop apps with .NET MAUI there are great built in features that you can integrate into your apps to deliver a higher quality experience for the form factor. Today, we take a look at 5 unique features to consider in your apps.

.NET Framework January 2023 Cumulative Update Preview

January 19, 2023 Jan 19, 2023 01/19/23

Salini Agarwal

January 2023 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework.

Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.1! Better, faster MVVM source generators, .NET 7 support, and more!

January 18, 2023 Jan 18, 2023 01/18/23

Sergio Pedri

We’re happy to announce the official launch of the .NET Community Toolkit 8.1 release, bringing with it some new highly requested features, improvements, new analyzers and major performance optimizations to the MVVM Toolkit source generators!