.NET Core 3 Builds

[ab-tools]

Great ribbon control! :-)

Any plans to provide .NET Core 3 builds as well?

[tajbender]

There are plans, or to be more precise, ideas, for a complete relaunch of the project, take a look at:

New development of Ribbon: Version 6

However, I personally never have used .net Core but I'm afraid currently this would be hard to achieve, since RibbonWinForms uses Win32-API calls extensively.

[wjk]

@tajbender Just because a codebase runs on .NET Core, doesn't mean it is necessarily cross-platform. Both Windows Forms and WPF now run on top of .NET Core 3, and they are very much Windows-only. Porting WinForms libraries to .NET Core 3 should hopefully require only minimal code changes; most of the work will be done in the csproj file and other build tooling. Hope this helps!

[tajbender]

@wjk: Thanks for clarification, to be honest, I accidentally thought the future of .net core goes wpf while having WinForms die in the long term.

We'll keep the idea in mind while focusing on release 6 of RibbonWinForms.

[tajbender]

I've done the analysis using the The .NET Portability Analyzer using the actual master tree.

There aren't serious issues, some minor ones which actually won't stop the show.

However, I tend towards a new Release for this, supplying builds for .net 2.0 (as usual), .net 4.7.2 and .net core 3.0 incl. Platform Extensions. Might take some days these appear on NuGet, but we'll let you know.

Thanks for the idea!