UWP, WinUI and Uno Platform get Prism support thanks to Uno team OSS Contribution
🕓 3 MINWe are pleased to announce that Uno Platform team has provided the initial support for the Prism library. Background The Prism Library was initially created by Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices team in 2008 and had grown into a mature set of guidance that allows developers to use proven patterns and development practices to create […]
C# interop with C/C++ and Rust in WebAssembly
🕓 4 MINHaving the ability to call code written in other languages is increasingly important, as there are many very useful libraries that are getting ported over to WebAssembly. In .NET, the common defined way for doing interop is P/Invoke and DllImport, and .NET for WebAssembly has support for it in the form of static linking of […]
Uno Platform and Windows Community Toolkit DataGrid, TabView and Expander with Sample Code
🕓 3 MINThe Windows Community Toolkit, WCT for short, is an essential resource for WinUI developers. It’s a Microsoft-supported library of controls like DataGrid, TabView and Expander that provide advanced functionality on top of what’s available in the base framework. As you might have seen in the Uno Platform 2.2 announcement yesterday, Uno Platform now includes a […]
Announcing Uno Platform 2.2 – Windows Community Toolkit support, Performance Improvements and more
🕓 3 MINThe Uno 2.2 release is packed with new features, performance improvements and bug fixes, even if it’s closely following the 2.1 release! In addition to expanding our support for Windows Community Toolkit (WCT) today we are also shipping additional 70 smaller features and performance improvements. If you are following our GitHub repo (hint – you […]
Custom Splash Screens in Uno Platform Apps
🕓 5 MINCredit: This article originally appeared at https://blog.mzikmund.com/2020/02/splash-screen-in-uno-platform-apps/, written by Uno community champion Martin Zikmund. A custom splash screen is an integral part of great user experience. Uno Platform makes customizing it as well as unifying it super easy as we shall see in this article. UWP Let’s start simple. UWP supports splash screens out of […]
Free Developer-friendly high-res backgrounds for Microsoft Teams
🕓 8 MINLast week Microsoft released custom background feature for Microsoft Teams. This was a feature long reserved for Microsoft employees only, likely for testing usage. The Great news is – custom background feature is now available to everyone, and our design team at Uno Platform took some time to create developer-friendly, high resolution custom backgrounds with […]
Announcing Uno Platform Support for Visual Studio Code
🕓 4 MINWe are happy to announce the preview of Uno Platform support for Visual Studio Code, following the progress made by the .NET team on the Visual Studio Code WebAssembly debugger integration. This blog will walk you through the set-up process for building and debugging WebAssembly apps with Uno Platform wherever Visual Studio Code runs – […]
Uno Platform 2.1 available now – x:Bind, TwoPaneView and more
🕓 3 MINUno Platform 2.1 release is packed with over 50 new features allowing for increased productivity as well as getting you up and running with Surface Duo. In addition to bigger milestones such as x:Bind, the TwoPaneView and NumberBox controls we also shipped another 50 new features and closed 45 issues you raised. Without further ado: […]
Debugging Uno Platform WebAssembly apps in Visual Studio 2019
🕓 3 MINThe .NET team has been hard at work with WebAssembly support, and while we’ve been having WebAssembly debugging from the browser, it’s now possible to debug an Uno WebAssembly app using Visual Studio 2019 16.6 Preview 1! Debug an Uno Platform WebAssembly Web app with Visual Studio Here’s what you need to do to debug […]