Theme: Delight developers building client and mobile applications with .NET 8

[davidortinau]

Summary

Empower .NET developers to quickly build the best-in-class Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows client apps using the tools they know and love. In .NET 8 we focus on helping developers move existing Xamarin applications to .NET, supporting the latest OS releases, and enhancing features to create excellent desktop user experiences.

Epics

• Xamarin developers are able to upgrade their projects to .NET 8
• Mobile developers can leverage the latest platform SDKs and libraries with .NET
• .NET MAUI developers are successful in ensuring the quality of their applications
• Creating excellent desktop user experiences
• Workloads distribution and management is understandable and seamless for developers sdk#30008

[Vroomer]

Great, but how about making .NET 8 MAUI supported in Visual Studio preview? You released loads of very important fixes in last 2 .NET 8 previews, but thanks to lack of support in Visual Studio they are pretty much useless to us and the fixes haven't been backported to .NET 7 either. Last .NET 7 service release is from January. It hurts! 💔

[SF-Simon]

Great, but how about making .NET 8 MAUI supported in Visual Studio preview? You released loads of very important fixes in last 2 .NET 8 previews, but thanks to lack of support in Visual Studio they are pretty much useless to us and the fixes haven't been backported to .NET 7 either. Last .NET 7 service release is from January. It hurts! 💔

Like me, you can build a version of the "main" branch locally, so that you can try out all the new features under . Net 7. However, its stability is also very low, so it is best not to apply it to production versions.