Uno Platform – 2021 in Review

đź•“ 3 MIN2021 was quite the year. Not only for our team but also for the community of contributors that helped get Uno Platform where we are today. Thank you for making our favorite moments from this year possible, and for being part of this incredible community. Releases Its only natural to start this post by recapping […]
Migrating WPF Applications to Web

đź•“ 2 MINMigrating from desktop-based applications to the Web with Uno Platform is reasonably straight forward. The important thing is to first perform your research, think about how your current application was built and look at your existing architecture so you can come up with a roadmap for moving forward. When thinking about migrating a codebase, there […]
UnoConf 2021 Summary and Recordings

đź•“ 3 MINUno Platform’s vision since day one has been to bring WinUI everywhere, enabling developers to create pixel-perfect single code base, web, mobile and desktop applications using both C# and XAML. That’s why this year’s UnoConf proved to be an exciting one as we got to share the release of 4.0 and how much Uno Platform […]
Announcing Uno Platform 4-0. Four Major Components Added

đź•“ 6 MINFour platform additions for speeding up application development announced: Visual Studio Code and Figma integration, Uno Platform Extensions and UI Toolkit.  Today, at UnoConf, we announced Uno Platform 4.0 which marks major new expansion to the platform, and an introduction of a set of new productivity tooling for Visual Studio Code users, a Toolkit of multiplatform-first components, a Figma plugin to eliminate the designer-developer handoff for XAML developers, and a set of Extensions to help with jumpstarting […]
Uno Platform 3.11: Support for .NET 6 RTM, VS 2022 17.1 Preview 1

đź•“ 2 MINIt was a busy week with 3 full days of .NET Conf – the exciting launch of .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022. The scalability, reliability, and performance of Visual Studio 2022 have all been significantly improved. On our side the first tests of Uno Platform on .NET 6 RTM are showing great performance improvements […]
.NET 6 New Project Templates and Minimal APIs. Are you ready?

đź•“ 3 MIN.NET 6 marks the completion of Microsoft’s plan to unify the different .NET implementations. The unification of .NET is not simply merging code from different sources into one API. There are quite some enhancements and new features that were added to the runtime and language. You’ve got: Improved Performance Hot Reload System.Linq enhancements Minimal Web […]
.NET Conf 2021, .NET 6, Uno Platform. Prizes Available!

đź•“ 3 MINJoin Uno Platform and the .NET community at this year’s .NET Conference. Hear all about the launch of .NET 6, take part in live sessions including one from our team, and plenty of chances to win awesome prizes. .NET Conf is a free, three-day, virtual developer event happening November 9th-11th, save the date and come […]
Launching Uno Platform Apps Directly on the Pi

đź•“ 2 MINWhen the Uno Platform Team had the vision of WinUI Everywhere, the promise extended beyond desktop, mobile and web applications. In this first of three part blog series & documentation contribution, Pete Gallagher, a Microsoft MVP takes us through building a cloud connected Raspberry Pi GUI app to perform some straightforward GPIO (General Purpose Input […]
Recent UWP & .NET 5, .NET 6 News and Uno Platform Plans

đź•“ 2 MINYou might have caught the news that Microsoft will not invest in moving UWP to .NET5/6. Naturally this raised questions about how Uno Platform is affected, especially as Uno Platform also ships in lockstep with .NET.  The short answer is – this news does not change anything for our users as Uno Platform has been architected to support both UWP as well as WinUI 2.x […]