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Bring the best of the Web to your .NET desktop applications with WebView2

Olia GavryshAugust 19, 2020Aug 19, 202008/19/20

Last year at Build, we introduced WebView2, a browser control that renders web content (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. It was originally limited in scope to C/C++ applications. Today, we are happy to announce the release of the WebView2 preview for .NET applications!

.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10, version 2004

Tara OverfieldJuly 31, 2020Jul 31, 202007/31/20

Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 on Windows 10, version 2004. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET - Use FIPS-compliant hashes in ASP.Net telemetry data. - Addresses an issue where "Unspecified" was not an ...

Continuous integration workflow template for .NET Core desktop apps with GitHub Actions

Edward SkrodMay 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20

Learn how to use a starter workflow in GitHub to help you quickly set up and showcase DevOps for your .NET Core desktop applications using GitHub Actions.

Continuous integration and deployment for desktop apps with GitHub Actions

Edward SkrodMarch 12, 2020Mar 12, 202003/12/20

From speaking to desktop developers, we’ve heard that you want to learn how to quickly set up continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows for your WPF and Windows Forms applications in order to take advantage of the many benefits CI/CD pipelines have to offer, such as: That's why we created a sample ...

.NET Framework February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup

Tara OverfieldFebruary 11, 2020Feb 11, 202002/11/20

Today, we are releasing the February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security The February Security and Quality Rollup Update does not contain any new security fixes. See January 2020 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality...

Continuously deploy and monitor your UWP, WPF, and Windows Forms app with App Center

Winnie Li (MSFT)October 31, 2019Oct 31, 201910/31/19

App Center is an integrated developer solution with the mission of helping developers build better apps. Last week, we announced General Availability support of distribute, analytics and diagnostics service for WPF and Windows Forms desktop applications. We also expanded our existing UWP offerings to include crash and error reporting for ...

Migrating a Sample WPF App to .NET Core 3 (Part 2)

Mike Rousos - MSFTJune 10, 2019Jun 10, 201906/10/19

In part 1 of this blog series, I began the process of porting a sample WPF app to .NET Core. In that post, I described the .NET Core migration process as having four steps: We previously went through the first two steps - reviewing the app and its dependencies (including NuGet dependencies and a .NET Portability Analyzer report), updating ...

Migrating a Sample WPF App to .NET Core 3 (Part 1)

Mike Rousos - MSFTJune 10, 2019Jun 10, 201906/10/19

Olia recently wrote a post about how to port a WinForms app from .NET Framework to .NET Core. Today, I'd like to follow that up by walking through the steps to migrate a sample WPF app to .NET Core 3. Many of these steps will be familiar from Olia's post, but I've tried to differentiate this one by including some additional common dependencies...

Porting desktop apps to .NET Core

Olia GavryshMay 28, 2019May 28, 201905/28/19

Since I've been working with the community on porting desktop applications from .NET Framework to .NET Core, I've noticed that there are two camps of folks: some want a very simple and short list of instructions to get their apps ported to .NET Core while others prefer a more principled approach with more background information. Instead of ...

Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 4

Rich Lander [MSFT]April 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19

Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4. It includes a chart control for Windows Forms, HTTP/2 support, GC updates to use less memory, support for CPU limits with Docker, the addition of PowerShell in .NET Core SDK Docker container images, and other improvements. If you missed it, check out the improvements we released in .NET Core 3....

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