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What’s new for WPF in .NET 7

November 8, 2022 Nov 8, 2022 11/8/22

Pankaj Chaurasia, Fiza Azmi, Ashish Kumar Singh

Find out what's new in WPF on .NET 7 including accessibility improvements, a focus on performance, and much more.

Tune in for .NET Conf: Focus on Windows, February 25th

February 22, 2021 Feb 22, 2021 02/22/21

Beth Massi

Save the date February 25th and tune in for a special .NET Conf live stream all about native Windows apps. Learn how to modernize your Windows apps and move them forward.

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

May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20

Edward Skrod

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.

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

October 31, 2019 Oct 31, 2019 10/31/19

Winnie Li (MSFT)

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)

June 10, 2019 Jun 10, 2019 06/10/19

Mike Rousos

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)

June 10, 2019 Jun 10, 2019 06/10/19

Mike Rousos

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...

Help us help you! What desktop apps are you bringing to .NET Core 3.0?

January 17, 2019 Jan 17, 2019 01/17/19

Olia Gavrysh

Windows Desktop applications are coming to .NET Core. The recently released .NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 version includes WinForms and WPF support. To make .NET Core 3.0 viable for as many of you as possible, we have created a survey to understand the types of desktop applications you want to build with .NET Core. Based on the information you ...

Open Sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF

December 10, 2018 Dec 10, 2018 12/10/18

karan nandwani msft

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...

Are your Windows Forms and WPF applications ready for .NET Core 3.0?

August 8, 2018 Aug 8, 2018 08/8/18

Olia Gavrysh

Download 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, such ...

Azure Blob Storage as a Network Drive

February 26, 2018 Feb 26, 2018 02/26/18

Aaron Roney

Many applications make use of a network drive to backup and store files. When I was in university I found myself constantly coding for fun, and one example took the form of a network share for my roommates to share files wrapped in a handy little app. Unfortunately, that particular app has long since been erased from whichever hard drive it ...

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