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.
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.
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Getting the Update
The Cumulative Upda...
Today, we are releasing the February 2022 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework.
Security
The February Security and Quality Rollup Update does not contain any new security fixes. See January 2022 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates.
Quality and Reliability
This release contains the following quality and reliabilit...
Databinding in the Windows Forms OOP Designer focuses on Object Data Sources, and it has a different approach to set up data sources compared to the .NET Framework Designer. Read what you need to know about Databinding in WinForms for .NET apps.