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Programmatically elevate a .NET application on any platform
[DllImport("libc")] private static extern uint geteuid(); public bool IsCurrentProcessElevated() { if (RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows)) { // https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/blob/v6.0.100/src/Cli/dotnet/Installer/Windows/WindowsUtils.cs#L38 using var identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); var principal = new WindowsPrincipal(identity); return principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator); } // https://github.com/dotnet/maintenance-packages/blob/62823150914410d43a3fd9de246d882f2a21d5ef/src/Common/tests/TestUtilities/System/PlatformDetection.Unix.cs#L58 // 0 is the ID of the root user return geteuid() == 0; }
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Swift was always going to be part of the OS
> There's definitely things they tried to improve on that... weren't really improvements. The way "assemblies" are matched in .NET is much more sophisticated- the goal there was to try to kill DLL hell. It evolved into the Global Assembly Cache, which is sort of the Windows Registry of DLLs. Not a huge fan of those bits.
The Global Assembly Cache did not make the jump to the modern .NET (Core). There was the thing called `dotnet store`, but it’s broken since .NET 6: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/24752
The assembly redirection hell has also been greatly reduced there.
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.NET Blazor
I do the same.
I have a small write-up here: https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2023/10/end-to-end-type-safety-wit...
You get end-to-end type safety (even better once you connect it to EF Core since you get it all ways to your DB).
With this setup with hot-reload (currently broken in .NET 8 [0]), productivity is really, really good. Like tRPC but with one of the most powerful ORMs out there right now.
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.NET 8 – .NET Blog
You're thinking of https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/22247
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LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
That's a twisted and wrong narrative
Unity like refers to a Editor driven approach
Unity became popular with its moonscript language (javascript like), they then ditched it to focus on C#, but what propelled unity to what it is today is the Editor driven approach, not c#, not DOTS
They are forced to transpile C# to C++ via IL2CPP as a result to target consoles/mobiles
C# is a disease when it comes to console/mobile support
It's a substantial dependency, quite heavy
And you are not free of unity like fuck ups, it's a microsoft language after all:
https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/22247
And let's not forget when they changed the license of their debugger overnight to prevent people from using it in their products (jetbrains for example)
And them deprecating open source tooling to a proprietary/closed one for vscode (c# devkit)
Let's be careful when we recommend evil as an alternative to evil ;)
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Writing Python like it's Rust
Another difference you might be surprised by is that the .NET tooling by default collects various data from your system and sends it to Microsoft [1]. If you want to avoid this (and still want to use .NET) you'll have to make sure that the environment variable DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT is set in all contexts before touching anything.
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.NET 8 is on the way! +10 Features that will blow your mind 🤯
SDK Pull Request
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Disadvantages of using F# with Mono?
Pretty sure the final file referenced here https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/8742 is the one I am thinking of.
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Exploring .NET 8 Preview 3: The 7 Features You Need to Know
So, buckle up, because the .NET SDK has whipped up a spiffy new option to have an easier output path structure. Here’s the lowdown:
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error NETSDK1194 Solution
yup - https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/30625
WPF
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.NET 8 is on the Way! 7 Features that will blow your mind 🤯
Gear up, folks, and test drive this fresh-off-the-lab feature. And should you stumble upon any glitches along the way, don’t hesitate to reach out. Got a bug to report or feedback to give? Send them directly to our dotnet/wpf repository. We’re eager to hear from you, because together, we’re only going to make the experience even better!
- What is the best for Develop Cross-platform Application ?
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Avalonia UI for .NET: Project Overview from Mike James
There’s still room for improvement though. I should add, WPF on .NET Core consumes a lot of memory, due to a memory leak. It was logged by our COO as one of our users was doing a comparison.
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Duda carrera: C#/.NET vs. Node/Express
WPF: Licencia MIT.
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Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
WPF is definitely not dead. It may not be the latest shiny thing, but it works, it is maintained (judging by https://github.com/dotnet/wpf or https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/wpf-on-dotnet-7/), and it is fully and officially supported on the modern .NET platform.
- WPF Roadmap 2023
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Interesting WPF behavior
Feature: new WPF style for Windows 10
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Did anyone figure out a way to compile .NET Core with WPF on Linux?
Okay apparently someone got it working with a simple patch: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/688
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Apple's Swift rewrite of its Foundation framework will be open source
WPF is not abandoned (the last commit to its repo was today).
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People like flutter more than react native. So why are there so few jobs?
WPF (UI framework built on top of Direct3D): open (last commit: 2 days ago), still supported WinUI 1 (UI framework built on top of Direct3D): proprietary, supported until Jan 10 2023 WinUI 2 (UI framework built on top of Direct3D): open (last commit: 2 days ago), still supported WinUI 3 (UI framework build on top of Platform Uno): open (couldn't find v3 branch or repo), not yet released
What are some alternatives?
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.
Flutter - Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
Extended WPF Toolkit™ - All the controls missing in WPF. Over 1 million downloads.
Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.
Windows UI Library - Windows UI Library: the latest Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications
Data Grid Extensions - Modular extensions for the WPF DataGrid control
Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin.Forms Official Home
IdentityServer - The most flexible and standards-compliant OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.x framework for ASP.NET Core
kdmapper - KDMapper is a simple tool that exploits iqvw64e.sys Intel driver to manually map non-signed drivers in memory
MQTTnet - MQTTnet is a high performance .NET library for MQTT based communication. It provides a MQTT client and a MQTT server (broker). The implementation is based on the documentation from http://mqtt.org/.