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WPF / Winforms UI Refactoring: A Case Study

WPF and Winforms are still so massively used that Microsoft fully supports those technologies in .NET Core, .NET 5, 6 , 7 and so on. However WPF and Winforms are...
Patrick Smacchia May 11, 2022

Visual Studio 2022 64 bits: Elements of history

Finally after all these years of waiting Visual Studio 2022 will run in a 64 bits process on 64 bits machines! As a consequence the effective process address space of the...
Patrick Smacchia May 11, 2021

.NET 5.0 App Trimming and Potential for Future Progress

In this article we will: go through the various ways to publish a .NET 5.0 application, play with .NET 5.0 app trimming to reduce the size of our deliverable use...
Patrick Smacchia September 28, 2020

Top 10 .NET 5.0 new APIs

When a new major .NET version hits Release Candidate, it is time to use the NDepend code review changes capabilities to browse which new APIs have been added. It is...
Patrick Smacchia September 21, 2020

Blazor Internals you need to know

Lately the Blazor technology received a lot of attention both from Microsoft and from the .NET community. Blazor is a UI technology. The ASP.NET team develops it since 2017. Its...
Patrick Smacchia September 3, 2020

Don’t rely on someone else to protect your software

This morning I stumbled on this post Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio on the Visual Studio blog. Basically VS will soon be able to not only...
Patrick Smacchia February 20, 2020

Not planning now to migrate your .NET 4.8 legacy, is certainly a mistake

2020 will see the achievement of the massive remodeling of the .NET platform initiated by Microsoft in November 2014 with the introduction of .NET Core 1, with the promise of...
Patrick Smacchia January 16, 2020

4 Predictions for the Future of .NET

In May 2019, Microsoft officially announced .NET 5, the future of .NET: it will be based on all the .NET Core work already achieved. Here is the schedule announced: On...
Patrick Smacchia October 8, 2019