AlterNET Studio (WinForms & WPF Tooling/Components) Now Supports VS 2022, .NET 6 -- Visual Studio Magazine

AlterNET Studio (WinForms & WPF Tooling/Components) Now Supports VS 2022, .NET 6

By David Ramel
02/07/2022

AlterNET Studio, packaging Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation .NET component libraries and dev tooling, now supports Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6.

The for-pay product, which helps .NET-centric developers extend WinForms or WPF .NET applications with code editing, script execution and UI design capabilities, shipped recently in version 8.0. It's a code editor, scripter and Form Designer packaged with a set of component libraries that enable coders to write scripts in C#, Visual Basic, TypeScript, JavaScript and Python to extend applications with custom functionality; run and debug scripts with a debugging engine and design visual UIs.

In addition to supporting VS 2022 and .NET 6, other improvements listed by the Australia-based AlterNET Software include:

Demo-projects are distributed with the source code that can target different .NET Frameworks via multi-targeted NuGet packages. This allows users to check the functionality under all supported frameworks, including .NET Core 6.
User guides and reference documentation is moved online allowing us to continuously improve the API reference content.
Python scripting and debugging now supports Python 3.7 language specification, and allows using popular third-party libraries like NumPy and pandas.
Python and C++ debuggers using native tools via Debug adapter protocol (DAP) are now integrated in our solution.
WinForms Form Designer now works under .NET Core 6 and can serialize its content to IronPython code-behind files.

As shown in the graphic above, demos are available.

A full list of changes is available here. Other information for AlterNET Studio 8, which comes in a trial evaluation version, is available in a FAQ.

About the Author

David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge 360.

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