The future of .NET desktop development
summary
.NET Core 3.0 adds Windows-only desktop packs to run WPF and WinForms on Core, demonstrates single-file self-contained publish (demo app becomes a 115 MB self-extracting EXE), and brings XAML Islands so UWP controls like WebView run inside WinForms/WPF. Migration uses the .NET Portability Analyzer, port class libraries to .NET Standard, update project files and NuGet packages. MSIX packaging supports differential updates and sideloading. No Visual designers yet; .NET Framework 4.8 gets LTS; .NET 5 aims to unify runtimes.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:29Why this talk
- 5:06NET Core 3
- 8:16NET Framework
- 10:01Whats next
- 11:54Demo
- 14:35Visual Studio 2019
- 17:16Single file publish
- 18:57WinForms demo
- 24:06Release schedule
- 27:41Porting over
- 33:41Community Toolkit
- 36:35Documentation
- 43:13App Distribution
- 48:01MSIX Installer
- 49:08Installable packages
- 50:49Updates
- 53:44Installation error
- 55:48Conclusion
