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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 WinForms Visual Basic Apps!
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.
The .NET Upgrade Assistant is now available as an experimental extension in Visual Studio to easily enable to update your apps and projects to the latest version of .NET.
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.
A rich user control ecosystem has always been one of the most important WinForms success guarantors. While the runtime support for Custom Controls remains unchanged, there are breaking changes with the design time support for the new Windows Forms (WinForms) .NET Designer.
