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Introducing Photino: Create Desktop Applications with Web UIs
Last updated: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - May/June
If you use Electron but find it makes a pretty big application, try using open source Photino, which uses .NET 5 for the host application instead of Node.js. Your apps for mobile or cross-platform can be lighter and faster.
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Azure Tools for .NET in Visual Studio 2019
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
Overview of how to use Visual Studio 2019 to consume Azure services from a .NET app and deploy your app to Azure using the revamped Connected Services experience. Get started using Connected Services to add service dependencies to your application.
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Introducing C# 9.0
Last updated: Saturday, December 13, 2025
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
In this overview, Bill Wagner presents C# 9.0—shipped with .NET 5—as a set of language enhancements aimed at modern workloads and cloud-native, concise, and more robust code; he highlights major additions (top-level statements, records and init-only setters, richer pattern matching), performance/interop tools (native ints, function pointers, SkipLocalsInit), fit-and-finish improvements, and source-generator support, explaining how each reduces boilerplate, improves safety, or boosts performance.
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Windows Desktop Apps and .NET 5
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0
This article describes the differences between .NET 5 and .NET Core 3.x and describes breaking changes from the upgrade. Overview of how to upgrade existing WinForms and WPF applications to .NET 5.
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Using .NET Core Tools to Create Reusable and Shareable Tools and Apps
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2020 - November/December
Overview of .NET Core tools. Why use them? Where do you get them? Step-by-step walkthrough to build, publish and consume a .NET Core Tool package.
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Be More Productive in Visual Studio 2019
Last updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2019 - Vol. 16 - Issue 1 - .NET Core 3.0
If you thought Visual Studio was a great tool before, you’re going to go nuts about the latest release. Mika and Kendra talk about the changes that they’re most excited about.

