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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 applicatio

.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 sidel

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 N

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 wri

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.

How to port desktop applications to .NET Core 3.0

Olia GavryshFebruary 26, 2019Feb 26, 201902/26/19

In 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. I will also show how you can keep using the WinForms designer in Visual Studio even though it

Open Sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF

karan nandwani msftDecember 10, 2018Dec 10, 201812/10/18

Today, 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. One of the top community asks has been to support WPF in the same way. XAML Behaviors for WPF now ships as

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