Developers adopting latest and greatest will have to tangle with XAML
Tim Anderson Mon 15 Mar 2021 // 17:45 UTC Share
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Microsoft has released its second preview of .NET 6, but confirmed there will be no visual designer for WinUI 3.0 when it comes out in November this year.
WinUI 3.0 is intended to be the primary official framework for Windows desktop applications.
Microsoft s .NET 6 is the first long-term release of its revamped development platform for running C#, F#, and to some extent Visual Basic applications on Windows, cross-platform, and on the web. It is a unifying release, integrating what used to be Xamarin Forms under the snappy new name MAUI (Multi-Platform App UI).
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Introducing Microsoft .NET 6
Microsoft is unveiling its road map for the next major release of .NET, along with a first preview download. Thinkstock
With the release last year of .NET 5, Microsoft switched its platform development away from the 20-year-old .NET Framework to the newer, cross-platform, open source .NET Core. The .NET Framework has moved into maintenance mode, while the new .NET completes its separation from Windows release cycles with a new cadence of annual releases.
In that new cadence, .NET 5 is what’s referred to as a current supported release, with 2021’s .NET 6 intended to be the first long-term support version of the new platform. That gives .NET 6 three years of support, as opposed to .NET 5’s support which ends sometime early in 2022, three months after the .NET 6 release. You can think of current releases as pioneering new features for developers who produce regular updates, mainly for consumer applications. Long-term suppo
Microsoft has released .NET 6 Preview 1. It comes with a bunch of features including support for Apple Silicon, Blazor, Mult-platform App UI toolkit, a better CLI, and performance enhancements.
Unified? Kind of, but now there are two .NET runtimes in the official SDK
Tim Anderson Thu 18 Feb 2021 // 13:50 UTC Share
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Microsoft has shipped the first preview of .NET 6.0, the first long-term support release of its newly unified application platform, promising native Apple Silicon support, desktop applications on ARM64, and a ton of updates to key frameworks like ASP.NET Core.
Program manager Richard Lander described .NET 6 as the final parts of the .NET unification plan that started with .NET 5 in a lengthy post on the new release. The preview is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, though note that the desktop application frameworks, Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation, are Windows-only.