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Roundup #38: Port Desktop App to .NET Core 3, Building 300+ csproj, .NET Core 3 Progress, Four Languages from Forty Years Ago

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Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter.

How to port desktop applications to .NET Core 3.0

In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I’ll describe what needs to be done different for WPF as we go. I will also show how you can keep using the WinForms designer in Visual Studio even though it is under development and is not yet available for .NET Core projects.

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-to-port-desktop-applications-to-net-core-3-0/

How do you all build really large .NET repos (like more than 300 .csproj)?

This is a really interesting thread. I can’t imagine building 300+ projects. I currently have a solution with just around 50 and I’m always trying to reduce it. What type of projects are people working that require 300+ projects?

Link: https://twitter.com/natemcmaster/status/1099021447920406529

.NET Core 3.0 Progress on Bugs

Link: https://twitter.com/ziki_cz/status/1100865306484850688

Four Languages from Forty Years Ago – Scott Wlaschin

The 1970’s were a golden age for new programming languages, but do they have any relevance to programming today? Can we still learn from them?

In this talk, we’ll look at four languages designed over forty years ago — SQL, Prolog, ML, and Smalltalk — and discuss their philosophy and approach to programming, which is very different from most popular languages today.

We’ll come away with some practical principles that are still very applicable to modern development. And you might discover your new favorite programming paradigm!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fpDlAEQio4

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