I did not wrote for too long. I probably has to catch up with news, or put some interesting content on the table. But for now I have only small announcement. Problem Based on my experience with compiling and testing applications, I notice that most of the time is spent on…

After all my travel across NativeAOT land, I became brave. I have one project, where I have Raspberry Pi 3 devices, and which run Blazor Server-side as UI. OS which I using is Raspbian, so no fancy ARM64 support for me. If you don’t know that, NativeAOT has ARM64 support…

Because most popular features of C# is working, and all small applications in WinForms and console form-factor working for me. I decide to jump into more advanced world of F# which has loyal developer base. This language ecosystem proven to be problematic to NativeAOT. …

Let’s have a little talk about WinForms in NativeAOT context again. Time flies and more and more components can be used (note, with proper ComWrappers instance supplied). There two minor issues, one is FolderBrowserDialog and second is WebBrowser. Let’s start with simple one FolderBrowserDialog. This class works, open dialog, but…

Today I will have only partially interesting article I believe. My wife stuck in Montenegro with kids, because she forget to take COVID test, and I have to magically pull additional tickets from somewhere. …

I’m always looking for a diverse set of fun projects where I can show the strengths of Native AOT. So today I will write about DirectX. Technically, DirectX is just another COM library, and because I wrote about COM in NativeAOT earlier, it’s nothing special in that regards. …

Out of the box, NativeAOT does not work with System.Drawing.Image class and friends. I was discover that when made attempt to port existing application WinForms to NativeAOT. So as responsible developer, I decide to fix that flaw. So I go to my pet project WinFormsComInterop and add support there. Once…

While WinForms support forming it’s shape (all controls without support for images, cursors and related stuff), I found nice library which can be used for writing simple Win32 applications in NativeAOT. Library is called WInterop and is written by Jeremy Kuhne. He seems to be working on WinForms, but this…

Today I would like to share my understanding of the status of WinForms and what’s left. I hope that WinForms would be working by that time, but unfortunately this is not yet happens. …