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.
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.
Read about the new features that are in Windows Forms in .NET 7 including new accessibility features, High DPI, UI Automation, and more.
September 2022 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework
June 2022 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework
We are releasing the May 2022 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. WPF 1 Winforms .NET Runtime Workflow 1 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative Upda...
