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As the year comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on the progress and advancements that have been made in the .NET ecosystem over the past year. From new versions of the framework and tools to exciting developments in the community, there has been no shortage of news and events to keep .NET developers engaged and informed. We queried Microsoft MVP community on what they liked the most in .NET in 2022 – see the below 5 highlights! Dev Tunnels in Visual Studio We developers love to code and run our apps on powerful computers with large epic high-DPI screens. However, we also then need to test in real-life scenarios on actual devices. While developing web apps in Visual Studio, testing on external devices was always a hassle, due to the fact that the apps are just running on localhost, so they are not accessible from the outside. But now, Dev Tunnels are here to help us! Tunnels set up port forwarding and a public URL, so you can then easily browse and test your app on any device. And it of course works with Uno Platform WebAssembly apps as well! Check out the documentation here. For

Let’s look at some of the most significant 2022 developments in Uno Platform, including release highlights, updates to our productivity tools, notable articles, and milestones. Whether you’re a seasoned Uno Platform developer or new to the ecosystem, this overview will summarize the state of Uno Platform and help you stay up-to-date on the latest happenings in the community. Without further ado, let us looks back at our journey in 2022 and how Uno Platform is establishing itself as a top choice for multi-platform UI development everywhere .NET runs. Executing on Productivity Vision Since the beginning, our goal has been to make Uno Platform the most productive platform for .NET and Windows developers. This year with a continued aim on that goal, we delivered seven releases, each boasting unique updates, evolved our toolset and removed common roadblocks to improve the developer experience and reach that goal. In addition, we are proud of our rapid release cadence – a release every ~7.5 weeks, meaning fixes for issues you submit are becoming available quickly. We shipped in lockstep with WinUI, .NET, Visual Studio 2022 and enhanced our VS Code plugin to make it productive for XAML developers while continuously tuning performance across all

Every year we survey our community for roadmap ideas and to gain insights into the state of the .net Windows and cross-platform developer ecosystem. While we often ask new questions, we also repeat some of the questions to understand year-over-year trends.   We were interested in target platform preferences and the most preferred IDEs developers in the Microsoft ecosystem, as this information helps prioritize our work for our open-source project.   Summary Windows as a target platform has gained importance at ‘the expense’ of macOS and Linux. Also, it took over Android as the most important target platform.   Web has retained its priority in developers’ minds.  Android is more popular on mobile platforms than iOS by a 15% margin.   Visual Studio still commands most of the market at 80%. But if developers could hypothetically use just one IDE, VS Code could get even more popular with this audience if it could gain some IDE-like features.   The most important targets for Xplat development Looking at it from year-over-year patterns, from top-3 platforms, we see the same platforms, albeit with some changes in popularity:   Windows: 77% in 2022 vs. 67% in 2021  Android: 72% vs. 69% in 2021  Web: 64% in both 2022 and 2021 

TLDR: Take the Uno Platform 5-minute survey to help us decide on 2023 priorities. Take Uno Platform 2023 Survey The Road Ahead Every year we run a survey to help us decide Uno Platform’s big priorities in the year to come. We are talking about big rocks we should focus on. Please continue raising the small feature requests with us at our GitHub repo, so we address them on the fly. In the past, our roadmap surveys uncovered new opportunities which materialized as our integration with Figma, Uno Toolkit, or Uno Platform extensions. Now, we’d love to hear how you use the new platform pillars we developed and learn of any other unique needs. We look forward to building Uno Platform with you, so it becomes the most productive way to build applications on .NET. Thanks for taking 5 minutes to share your opinion and help us decide on 2023 priorities. Take Uno Platform 2023 Survey Jerome Laban, CTO, Uno Platform About Uno Platform For those new to Uno Platform – it allows for creation of pixel-perfect, single-source C# and XAML apps which run natively on Windows, iOS, Android, macOS, Linux and Web via WebAssembly. It offers Figma integration for design-development handoff,