Microsoft has always had a plan to support cross-platform development using the .NET Framework. For the longest time, the plan was for you to create a Portable Class Library (PCL) -- any API you used ...

Your business's software developers can work with Microsoft's .NET framework to create powerful Excel macros for your spreadsheets. The .NET framework contains a vast library of classes that perform a ...

The first preview version of the tenth .NET version contains a number of innovations in the class libraries as well as new language features in C# 14.0. Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg hat Fachbücher zu ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Hello,<BR><BR>I have a nifty .NET class library that is being called from MS Access (through COM) as part of a legacy app. This works quite nicely. However, I would ...

The .NET Framework class library is vast and sometimes overwhelming. As with any development language there are numerous ways to solve a problem, but some methods are better than others. I'll examine ...

I was recently called onto a project to add features to existing applications. To me, this is one of the most challenging aspects of being a developer because the existing application strips away much ...

Microsoft unveiled its development strategy for Windows 8 at its BUILD conference last month in Anaheim. One of the biggest development shifts was the announcement of the Windows Runtime (WinRT).

Let’s talk about the .NET framework first! .NET, the framework created by Microsoft is one of the popular platforms where the software applications are created based on web to mobile to windows. With ...

Microsoft’s cross-platform .NET takes interesting dependencies, including a fork of Google’s Skia, now to be co-maintained with Uno Platform. The news that the .NET UI framework Uno Platform project ...