The .NET ecosystem can seem confusing as Microsoft transitions from the old Windows-only .NET Framework to an open-source, cross-platform approach filled with moving parts for a variety of targets.

Developers at Microsoft have been busy revolutionizing how we program of late. Nowhere are these changes more evident today than when creating user interfaces (UIs), where, instead of CodeDOM ...

XAML Hot Reload for .NET MAUI has been available for Visual Studio for a while now, but now it's finally come to the IDE's open-source-based, cross-platform little cousin, Visual Studio Code. Hot ...

The development platform and tools strategy at Microsoft is getting increasingly complex, especially around XAML/Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. Here's the latest. Microsoft on ...

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