It took me a long time to figure out how to get the product info from a Windows Installer (.msi) file but I learnt a lot about native stuff which absolutely worth it. #dotnet #winui github.com/peymanr34/in...

Maybe I've stared at it too much but DataGridView (In .NET 7.0+) has extra contrast in the border lines which I find very distracting. I haven't found a easy workaround for this yet. Please upvote if you agree with me. #dotnet #winforms github.com/dotnet/winfo...

This is a first... Maybe I should stop P/Invoking stuff since I really don't know what I'm doing.

I really hate showing dialogs in #WinUI

I was working on replacing FolderBrowserDialog with FolderPicker in my WinForms app (.NET Framework 4.8) but not having SelectedPath property was a deal breaker for me. I guess I have to wait until I migrate to .NET 10 or later which already has the *better* FolderBrowserDialog. #dotnet

Thanks to @dotmorten.xaml.dev my app is now complete with a proper tray icon. #dotnet #winuiex

If you want your WinUI app to launch to the tray, and optionally add a context menu to the tray, it is now SUPER simple with WinUIEx!

9 years of not having ObservableCollection.AddRange() #dotnet github.com/dotnet/runti...

Save a file with the new Windows App SDK picker in WinUI | Microsoft Learn buff.ly/PytenbY #windowsdev #windowsappsdk #wasdk #winui #dotnet #csharp #windev

nuget trusted publishing from GitHub actions is rolling out. No more api keys needed to publish from your release process. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/...

I can't believe System[.]Text[.]Json can't deserialize these to DateTime on its own! #dotnet

KB5001716 is basically a malware at this point, no matter how may times you uninstall it, it will come back.

So... WinUI doesn't have SharedSizeGroup. <sigh>

Having been frustrated with many blogging systems, I finally rolled out my own custom (markdown) blog. I'm slowly migrating the posts over.

Nice! If you make the following change to your WinUI app, replacing the meta pacakge with just the WinUI and Packages package, you'll significantly reduce the size of your WinUI app!

What is this babble about the TypeScript compiler? Some people have a lot of free time... including some YouTubers.

Blogged: Disabling localized satellite assemblies during dotnet publish andrewlock.net/disabling-lo... In this post I show how to reduce the size of the publish output for .NET apps by preventing the publishing of localization resources when they're not needed #dotnet #aspnetcore #csharp

It's incredible that you can integrate @avaloniaui.net into a WinForms app and slowly migrate everything over. You can even stay on .NET Framework if you want to! #dotnet

No idea why, but the PlaceholderText for AutoSuggestBox in WinUI 3 is not centered anymore. Just updated the `Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK` package from v1.5.x to v1.6.x and nothing else.

Blogged: Back to Basics: Using the Parallel Library to Massively Boost Loop Performance Posting a follow up to recent tweet regarding converting a linear for loop to parallel and gaining huge performance improvements. weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2024/D...

A friend of mine bought this Lumia 1520 today! It was running the original Windows Phone 8.0 and looks brand new!

Wasn't there a new ColorDialog for WinForms? or maybe I'm completely wrong. #dotnet

Hey #winforms devs! In #dotnet 9, WinForms got some new cool features for consuming modern APIs with `Control.InvokeAsync` and other async APIs. Check out the blog post here and spread the word! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/intro...

I'm playing with the new Ultra profiler by Alexandre Mutel and I'm blown away. It's incredible. It's so powerful and showing me managed, native, JIT, GC, allocations, everything. It feels like I have a new superpower. If you're a .NET developer, you have to check this out: github.com/xoofx/ultra

I wrote this and somehow it makes sense! #dotnet stackoverflow.com/a/79263264/5...

The `GeneratedRegex` and the explanation feature in dotnet is absolutely mind-blowing.