2020.11.22

WinUI 3 Preview 3 dropped this week!

New Libraries

• Syncfusion WinUI - The Syncfusion WinUI toolkit includes feature-rich WinUI controls like DataGrid, Charts, TreeView, and more, that embodies Fluent Design for building modern and seamless Windows apps. [$]

New Tooling

• Visual Asset Generator - An app designed to make creating Icons and Visual Assets for UWP apps a breeze.

New Screencasts

All .NET Community Standups are listed on Microsoft .NET Community Standups.

• App Consult Insights - S02 E04 WinUI 3.0 Preview 3.0 - (November 19, 2020) - The WinUI team has just released a new and exciting preview of WinUI 3.0, the new UI framework to build Windows applications. In this short episode, Marc and Matteo shares some highlights of this new release, like the Intellisense support and XAML Hot Reload.

• App Development Community Standup: WinUI 3 Preview 3 release - (November 17, 2020) - Join Kevin Gallo and guests to learn about the new features in the WinUI 3 Preview 3 that are available for you to try in your app.

New Articles

• Announcing WinUI 3: Preview 3 - (November 17, 2020) - If you tuned in to this morning’s App Development Community Standup, you know that today we released WinUI 3 Preview 3.

• Uno Platform 3.3 – Day 0 support for WinUI 3 Preview 3, Android 11 - (November 17, 2020) - WinUI 3.0 Preview 3 is a big step towards shipping the final version of WinUI. We at Uno Platform team are happy to report that Uno Platform already works with the latest WinUI preview. Our sincerest thanks to WinUI team who keeps us posted on their progress and allows us to make modifications to Uno so that our joint developer base can use the latest and greatest bits right away.

• A lap around the Microsoft MVVM Toolkit - (November 16, 2020) - In this article we’ll walk through a UWP sample app to experiment with the features of the new Microsoft.Toolkit.Mvvm package that is part of the Microsoft Community Toolkit.

• Start and Restart Windows (UWP/WinUI) Applications on Windows Startup - (November 14, 2020) - A while ago Windows introduced a little-known feature that allows applications to automatically restart when Windows is restarted. However, rather than just look at this feature, which Windows app developer get for free, in this post we’re going to look at different options for starting and restarting a Windows application when Windows starts/restarts.

2020.11.15

New Articles

• Uno Platform 3.2: .NET 5, C# 9 support and .NET 5 WebAssembly AOT Support - (November 9, 2020) - The 3.2 release is loaded with features and performance improvements. Most of the release focused on upcoming .NET 5 and all benefits Uno Platform gets from building on top of it. However, we are also releasing improvements to the controls and tooling we introduced in previous releases.

2020.11.08

New Articles

• Syncfusion Previews WinUI Controls - (November 4, 2020) - Syncfusion's latest update to its various third-party development controls and tools provides preview support for WinUI, Microsoft's UI framework for all Windows apps across both Win32 and Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

• Beyond Uno Platform “Getting Started” – Navigation, Platform Specific XAML and C#, MVVM, JavaScript interop and more - (November 2, 2020) - Andrew Hoefling, a Microsoft MVP, speaker, trainer and as of recently Uno Platform contributor dedicated a blog series with getting started guides and code samples to help you get up and running quickly with Uno Platform Apps.

2020.11.01

Upcoming Events

DotNetConf Event – Uno Platform and .NET 5 (December 17, 2020)

Recently announced .NET 5 creates multiple opportunities for Uno Platform to improve performance and reduce solution complexity. With .NET 5, we are able to better target traditional Microsoft Windows targets, but also WebAssembly, Linux and macOS. Come join us for a 30 minutes overview of how Uno Platform takes advantage of .NET 5, as well as for live Q&A with our CTO Jerome Laban.

New Articles

• Microsoft plans big Windows 10 UI refresh in 2021 codenamed 'Sun Valley' - (October 28, 2020) - A big UI refresh is on the cards for Windows 10 in 2021. The project is codenamed Sun Valley. Improvements to File Explorer, Start, and Tablet Mode are expected.

• Uno Platform 3.1 Released – Linux, new WinUI controls, Prism 8.0 and more - (October 23, 2020) - For 3.1 release we were able to add 70+ features and close 140+ code and documentation issues. Let’s unpack the release. And for all of you inpatient ones, head over to your IDE and update your packages to 3.1!

2020.10.25

New Articles

• Building cross-platform apps with .NET and Uno - (October 19, 2020) - You can use Xamarin to develop .NET apps to run on iOS or Android instead of Windows. In this article, Julio Sampaio demonstrates the Uno Platform. You can build cross-platform applications using Uno which has even more options.

• Announcing Microsoft Edge WebView2 General Availability - (October 19, 2020) - Today, we are excited to announce that Microsoft Edge WebView2 for Win32 C/C++ is generally available and ready for use in production applications! With today’s announcement, we are officially releasing a forward-compatible WebView2 SDK along with production-ready WebView2 Runtime. These can be used in any Win32 C/C++ application, and are supported across existing Windows versions.

2020.10.11

New Articles

• Introduction to WebAssembly for .NET Developers: Building with Uno Platform, XAML, and C# - (October 7, 2020) - I’ll show you how to build a web application utilizing WebAssembly with .NET, XAML, and C#. You’ll build a simple XAML app with some form controls to collect data and display that data in a ListView.

• MVVM Toolkit Preview 3 & The Journey of an API - (October 7, 2020) - 🎉 Today we’re happy to announce a new preview of our MVVM Toolkit as part of the Windows Community Toolkit. 🎉 This update includes changes based on feedback from our community who’ve been using the initial preview of the library.

2020.10.04

New Articles

• Build pixel-perfect Microsoft Surface Duo apps with Uno Platform - (September 29, 2020) - In previous blog posts, the Surface Duo team demonstrated how you can build dual-screen apps using Java and Kotlin, Xamarin and C#, Flutter, React Native, Web, and games with Unity. Today’s blog post shows how UWP and WinUI developers can target the Surface Duo using Uno Platform.

• Uno Platform 3.0 – Styling Uno Applications with Fluent and Material styles - (September 28, 2020) - This article will explain how to add either Material Design or Fluent Design to a new or existing Uno app with only a few lines of code, and help you boost your productivity with our ready-made styles and controls!

2020.09.27

.NET Conf (November 10-12, 2020)

.NET Conf is a free, three day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. This year .NET 5.0 will launch at .NET Conf 2020! Come celebrate and learn about the new release. We're also celebrating our 10th anniversary and we're working on a few more surprises. You won't want to miss this one.

New Podcasts

• Uno Platform With Jérôme Laban - (September 18, 2020) - The .NET Core Podcast - In this episode I spoke with Jérôme about precisely what Uno Platform is, how it's more than just an alternative to Xamarin, and how you can use it to build cross platform UI-based .NET applications which leverage all of the APIs that you have come to love and expect.

New Articles

• Sneak Peek at 2020 Volume 3: Major Highlights - (September 25, 2020) - We are happy to announce that our first-ever Syncfusion Essential Studio for WinUI preview 3 will be included in our upcoming 2020 Volume 3 release.

• Feature roadmap of WinUI is finally available - (September 24, 2020) - Microsoft today announced the release of WinUI 3.0 feature roadmap. The feature roadmap table included below will offer you the status on WinUI 3 features, and the expected date of availability.

• Microsoft's WebView2 for Windows 10 apps will be generally available by end of 2020 - (September 22, 2020) - WebView2 should improve the performance of web apps that adopt it.

• Announcing more ways, we’re making app development easier on Windows - (September 22, 2020) - Building great apps on Windows should be easier – no matter how your app is written. We want to ensure you have a path forward to make your apps better on Windows and we’re doing that with Project Reunion. We’re creating a unified app platform that allows you to focus on your app and take advantage of new or existing code. We also know you need a great development environment and tools that help you stay productive. Today, at Microsoft Ignite I’m excited to share the progress we’ve made to simplify app development and give you a great developer experience.

• Experimenting with .NET 5 Target Framework Names and the Windows platform - (September 19, 2020) - Firstly, if you haven’t been following the development of .NET 5 then you should definitely download the latest Visual Studio preview and .NET 5 preview SDK today. Next, you should follow the blogs from the dotnet team and specifically the post by Immo that discusses the future of .NET Standard. The post doesn’t just cover .NET Standard, it also covers the basics of how target framework names (TFMs) work in the .NET 5+ era. In this post we’re going to play around with this and take a look at some examples of different TFMs in action.

2020.09.20

New Articles

• Windows 10 developers: Microsoft's Project Reunion just gained this new tool - (September 16, 2020) - Microsoft unveils MRT Core resource loader for Project Reunion, its effort to fix problems with Win32 and UWP apps.

2020.09.13

New Articles

• Building Windows Terminal with WinUI - (September 8, 2020) - WinUI and Windows Terminal have a strong relationship that goes back to the origins of Windows Terminal. This blog post goes into the history and architecture of how these two technologies came together.