
We have not yet added Span, for example, to the standard. We’ll also be releasing a new version of.

Windows functionality, like GDI Plus and DirectX, will remain in Windows. It’s the C# code in Windows Forms and WPF that we’ll include as a set of libraries with. WPF and Windows Forms do a great job of exposing and exercising much of the desktop application functionality in Windows. We have lots of improvements planned for those scenarios that we’ll share later.įrom a 1000-meter view, you can think of WPF as a rich layer over DirectX and Windows Forms as thinner layer over GDI Plus. We’ll continue to offer a great cross-platform product, focused on the cloud. Support for Windows desktop will be added as a set of “Windows Desktop Packs”, which will only work on Windows.NET Core isn’t changing architecturally with this new version. Like the past few releases, the new release will include a set of targeted improvements, including the features you see listed above. We expect the next version to be 4.8 and for it to ship in about 12 months.



NET Core and enjoy all the benefits that. You will be able to run new and existing Windows desktop applications on. NET Core 3 is support for Windows desktop applications, specifically Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), and UWP XAML. At Microsoft Build Live today, we are sharing a first look at our plans for.
