Olia Gavrysh

Help us improve WPF and UWP XAML designer

May 28th, 2020

We would like to make your experience developing WPF and UWP applications in Visual Studio better! Currently we are investigating ways of improving the XAML Designer and making you more productive while developing UI for your apps. You can already check out our preview version of the new feature called Suggested Actions that enables easy ac

Windows Forms Designer for .NET Core Released

May 19th, 2020

Today we're happy to announce that the Windows Forms designer for .NET Core projects is now available as a preview in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6! We also have a newer version of the designer available in Visual Studio 16.7 Preview 1! Don't forget to enable the designer in Tools > Options > Environment > Preview Fea

Updates on .NET Core Windows Forms designer

March 17th, 2020

We released a preview version of Visual Studio 16.6 - Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 1 and with it a new version of .NET Core Windows Forms designer. This release contains Coming next In the future releases we will be working on User Controls and third-party controls support, integration with popular controls ve

Updates to .NET Core Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio 16.5 Preview 1

December 5th, 2019

We are happy to announce the new preview version of the .NET Core Windows Forms designer, which is available with the Visual Studio 16.5 Preview 1. The big news is that the designer is now part of Visual Studio! This means that installing the .NET Core Windows Forms designer from a separate VSIX is no longer needed! To use the designer:

.NET Core 3 for Windows Desktop

November 5th, 2019

Intro In September, we released .NET Core support for building Windows desktop applications, including WPF and Windows Forms. Since then, we have been delighted to see so many developers share their stories of migrating desktop applications (and controls libraries) to .NET Core. We constantly hear stories of .NET Windows desktop developers po

Introducing .NET Core Windows Forms Designer Preview 1

September 30th, 2019

Introducing .NET Core Windows Forms Designer Preview 1 We just released a GA version of .NET Core 3.0 that includes support for Windows Forms and WPF. And along with that release we're happy to announce the first preview version of the Windows Forms Designer for .NET Core projects! For developers the .NET Core Windows Forms Designer (when

Calling all .NET desktop and mobile developers!

August 7th, 2019

We would love to hear about your experience with building client applications in .NET. Your feedback will greatly help us to improve the .NET tooling and ensure our roadmap focuses on your needs. Participate in shaping the future of the .NET client development by taking this short survey (5 minutes to complete). We are also searching for d

Porting desktop apps to .NET Core

May 28th, 2019

Since I've been working with the community on porting desktop applications from .NET Framework to .NET Core, I've noticed that there are two camps of folks: some want a very simple and short list of instructions to get their apps ported to .NET Core while others prefer a more principled approach with more background information. Instead of wri

How to port desktop applications to .NET Core 3.0

February 26th, 2019

In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I'll describe what needs to be done different for WPF as we go. I will also show how you can keep using the WinForms designer in Visual Studio even though it

Help us help you! What desktop apps are you bringing to .NET Core 3.0?

January 17th, 2019

Windows Desktop applications are coming to .NET Core. The recently released .NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 version includes WinForms and WPF support. To make .NET Core 3.0 viable for as many of you as possible, we have created a survey to understand the types of desktop applications you want to build with .NET Core. Based on the information you