Modernizing Desktop Apps Part 1
Channel: Microsoft Visual Studio
Date: 2019-02-28

In this episode, Robert is joined by Adam Braden. In this first of two episodes, Adam talks about the future of your Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Forms applications. Windows, .NET, and Visual Studio are making it easy to incrementally modernize your existing applications by taking advantage of the platform improvements we are delivering. In this episode, Adam shows modern app packaging via MSIX, calling Windows APIs and previews the upcoming .NET Core 3 support in WinForms and WPF apps. 

Resources:
MSIX Packaging (http://aka.ms/msix)

Windows App Packaging Project (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-packaging-dot-net)

Calling Windows APIs (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-enhance)

.NET Core 3.0 (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/12/04/announcing-net-core-3-preview-1-and-open-sourcing-windows-desktop-frameworks/)

How to port desktops applications to .NET Core 3.0 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-to-port-desktop-applications-to-net-core-3-0/)