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March 12, 2020Mar 12, 202003/12/20From 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,
February 11, 2020Feb 11, 202002/11/20Today, we are releasing the February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework.
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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.
October 31, 2019Oct 31, 201910/31/19App 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 sideloaded UWP apps.
June 10, 2019Jun 10, 201906/10/19In 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 –
June 10, 2019Jun 10, 201906/10/19Olia 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,
May 28, 2019May 28, 201905/28/19Since 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.
April 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19Today, 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,
February 26, 2019Feb 26, 201902/26/19In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I’ll describe what needs to be done different for WPF as we go.
December 10, 2018Dec 10, 201812/10/18Today, we are excited to announce that we are open sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF.
In the past, we open sourced XAML Behaviors for UWP which has been a great success and the Behaviors NuGet package has been downloaded over 500k times.
August 8, 2018Aug 8, 201808/8/18Download Portability Analyzer (2.37 MB)
At Build 2018 we announced that we are enabling Windows desktop applications (Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Framework (WPF)) with .NET Core 3.0. You will be able to run new and existing Windows desktop applications on .NET Core and enjoy all the benefits that .NET Core has to offer,
