.Net Core

Distributing a .NET Core 3 WPF and WinForms App with MSIX

I could not be more excited for .NET Core 3 that will soon power all of your WPF and WinForms apps in addition to ASP.NET Core and .NET Core apps themselves! You may be saying... James... WPF... WinForms... why even bother? Well, because you may have to support some older apps and with the power of .NET Core 3 as the runtime instead of the .NET Framework it means that we no longer have to worry about what version of .NET is installed on the users machine. It means we can deploy a WPF/WinForms ap…

James Montemagno

Introducing My Stream Timer: A Countdown Timer for OBS

I have been streaming on Twitch for over 6 months now. I stream both code on my personal Twitch channel [https://twitch.tv/jamesmontemagno] and I also stream games and recordings of Nintendo Dispatch [http://nintendodispatch.com] with my buddy Michael over on the official Dispatch Twitch channel [http://twitch.tv/nintendodispatch]. One thing that always bothered me was having to manually mess around with apps to get a simple countdown timer. They were too complex, had too many options, and had…

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Multi-Targeting: Where Did My Files Go? Fixing .NET Core 2.1 SDK Issues

I love multi-targeting for creating libraries, and it is at the core of all of my plugins and Xamarin.Essentials. If you don't know what multi-targeting is don't worry as it is pretty rare that you would need to use it if you are creating apps. Most likely you will want to use multi-targeting in creating cross-platform libraries. In the past you would have to create multiple libraries for each target framework (such as iOS or Android) that you wanted to support if there was platform spec…

James Montemagno

Installing a PCL into netstandard Libraries (Plugins & Xamarin.Forms)

Last week we announced that Xamarin projects now support netstandard libraries [https://blog.xamarin.com/net-standard-library-support-for-xamarin/], which is awesome! I made a short video on how to get started and upgrade a PCL to a netstandard library that any application could consume. The first question I got was if I could install Xamarin.Forms into a netstandard library, and I quickly said I don’t think so, because when I tried Visual Studio and NuGet got all mad at me. This is because I d…

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Distributing a .NET Core 3 WPF and WinForms App with MSIX

Introducing My Stream Timer: A Countdown Timer for OBS

Multi-Targeting: Where Did My Files Go? Fixing .NET Core 2.1 SDK Issues

Installing a PCL into netstandard Libraries (Plugins & Xamarin.Forms)

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