Your WinForms code might have issues—maybe an Async call picked the wrong overload, or it’s leaking data into resource files. Time to call in a code-shrink! So, WinForms, Analyze This!
With .NET 9, we’re bringing a suite of new async APIs to WinForms, aimed at making UI updates, dialog interactions, and control management more efficient.
Announcing the release of .NET 9, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C#, .NET MAUI, .NET Aspire, and so much more.
Get up to date on all of the .NET sessions from Microsoft Build 2024 covering .NET 9, .NET Aspire, .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and so much more!
32-bit components can impose challenges for WinForms developers in a 64-bit Visual Studio environment, but there are options to solve this. Component modernization, migrating to .NET 6+ and a new option to use the out-of-process Designer for Framework are the key to a feasible way forward!
The new version of .NET Upgrade Assistant is available in Visual Studio Marketplace with feature updates and .NET MAUI improvements!
The new version of .NET Upgrade Assistant CLI tool is available with all the new features for upgrading your apps!
The new version of .NET Upgrade Assistant is available in Visual Studio Marketplace with lots of updates and new features!
Since .NET 6, we updated the WinForms runtime to support and improve the Visual Basic Application Framework. In Visual Studio 2022, we also modernized the related user experience. Time to take a closer look how all this works behind the scenes, lets you move from .NET Framework to .NET 6/7+ and provides a great opportunity to modernize your WinForm...
When you design a WinForms Form, it gets generated into a method called InitializeComponent. When you reopen that Form, it gets recreated by interpreting that code. In Visual Studio 2022 17.5, we've modernized the code generation process. And made some changes.
