When will Utilmate UI for Windows support .net core 3.1 and have Visual Studios Toolbox integration?
Thanks
Thanks for the update. Some other UI technologies are able to get away with not providing a designer at all, and substitute that for "hot reload". On the winforms side the designer is where all the programming is done in the first place, so it is hard to get anywhere without a functioning designer. Swapping back and forth between a .Net Framework designer and a .Net core app is not ideal.
We are still using a ton of your winforms controls and will eventually need a path forward. Although it may be a few years before we feel the pinch. Winforms is a "mature" platform and I was somewhat surprised Microsoft decided to port it to .Net core in the first place! What is more, they have a path to ARM64 as well...
Hi Roman,
Just to be clear... until recently, Microsoft hadn't actually released any viable path by which we could provide robust Designers for Windows Forms NetCore controls. So it's hardly fair to call this a "bug" in our controls.VS 2019 v16.9 has some designer support, but MS is still working on some areas of the Designer experience.But having said that, we expect to have a major update to Designer support in v21.1 of the Infragistics controls.
Hi Andrew,
It's been now twelve months since your post and there is still no progress on this. Ultimate UI for Windows Forms is still lacking a working designer view when using .Net Core or .Net 5.I'm really wondering that Infragistics does so little information and progress on this tremendous issue. How long do we have to wait for this bug to be fixed?
TIA,Roman
I think Infragistics considers that winforms-on-core is still "preview". It sounds like their goal is to support the designer more fully once .Net core 5 is available.
Have you tried to investigate how easy it is to build a winforms app using the native, Microsoft controls? I suspect that there may be a good reason why the Infragistics folks consider this stuff to be in preview (still). I doubt that there were a ton of winforms programmers downloading the Microsoft preview versions of this stuff for Visual Studio to test things out... so I suspect there are still quite a lot of kinks to work thru.
For more info, see this link:
https://www.infragistics.com/community/forums/f/ultimate-ui-for-windows-forms/121538/infragistics-support-for-the-core-designer-surface
In the meantime, perhaps you might want investigate other modern technologies for building user interfaces like WPF or client-side Blazor. Those are continuing to get lots of attention in the .Net community. (eg. WPF has already had a .Net core designer for a very long time.)
I downloaded the latest 20.1 and created a .NET Core 3.1 Windows Form project. I see all of the new Windows Form components in the toolbox but none of the Infragistic controls. I Rest the Toolbox and tried to Chose Items with no luck. For a .net Framework project, I can see the controls , juts not .Net Core. Any ideas when support for .Net Core Win Forms will truly be in place?