Scott Hunter [MSFT], Author at .NET Blog

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Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI

May 19th, 2020

You can build anything with .NET. It's one of the main reasons millions of developers choose .NET as the platform for their careers, and companies invest for their businesses. With .NET 5 we begin our journey of unifying the .NET platform, bringing .NET Core and Mono/Xamarin together in one base class library (BCL) and toolchain (SDK). As ...

Announcing .NET 5 Preview 4 and our journey to one .NET

May 19th, 2020

.NET 5 is the next version and future of .NET. We are continuing the journey of unifying the .NET platform, with a single framework that extends from cloud to desktop to mobile and beyond. Looking back, we took the best of .NET Framework and put that into .NET Core 3, including support for WPF and Windows Forms. As we continue the journey, we ...

Announcing .NET 5 Preview 1

March 16th, 2020

At the end of last year, we shipped .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1. These versions added the desktop app models Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF, ASP.NET Blazor for building single page applications and gRPC for cross-platform, contract-based messaging. We also added templates for building services, rich generation of client code for talking to gRPC, ...

Supporting the community with WF and WCF OSS projects

June 7th, 2019

At the Build conference in May 2019, we mentioned that, after we add WinForms, WPF and Entity Framework 6 to .NET Core 3.0, we do not plan to add any more of the technologies from .NET Framework to .NET Core. This means we will not be adding ASP.NET Web Forms, WCF, Windows Workflow, .NET Remoting and/or the various other smaller APIs to ....

.NET Core is the Future of .NET

May 6th, 2019

We introduced .NET Core 1.0 on November 2014. The goal with .NET Core was to take the learning from our experience building, shipping and servicing .NET Framework over the previous 12 years and build a better product. Some examples of these improvements are side-by-side installations (you can install a new version and not worry about ...

Update on .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.8

October 4th, 2018

In May, we announced .NET Core 3.0, the next major version of .NET Core that adds support for building desktop applications using WinForms, WPF, and Entity Framework 6. We also announced some exciting updates to .NET Framework which enable you to use the new modern controls from UWP in existing WinForms and WPF applications. Today, ...

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Director Program Management, .NET

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Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI

Announcing .NET 5 Preview 4 and our journey to one .NET

Announcing .NET 5 Preview 1

Supporting the community with WF and WCF OSS projects

.NET Core is the Future of .NET

Update on .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.8

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