When will .Net 5 get UWP?

[Gavin-Williams]

When I create a UWP-WinUI app it's still using Microsoft.NetCore.UWP and there are no properties displayed. I assume this is the same .net core that UWP has been using.

When I create a Desktop-WinUI app it's using the the .Net 5 preview.

Are we waiting for something? Or have I misunderstood what .Net 5 represents? Is UWP getting .Net 5 or not?

[Felix-Dev]

Seems like a duplicate of #17 which also covers the .NET 5 + UWP topic.

[Gavin-Williams]

@Felix-Dev Thanks for that link, that seems to cover this.

So UWP might get .Net 5 by the end of 2021.

Yikes, it'll be tough for a lot of people I think to hold out. I will probably just switch to .Net 5 (where a future is guaranteed) and screw the consequences. Yep, I'll lose SharpDX and there's no obvious way to write graphics apps on .Net 5 (except write the entire graphics stack yourself from scratch in C++/WinRT - ROFL) But I can't stick with either SharpDX or UWP past my current project as they both unsupported. It just doesn't make sense anymore.

[jtorjo]

It just doesn't make sense anymore.

Did it ever? :)

Basically, it seems MS is incredibly confused about it. What about us, the developers?

Trust me, I feel your pain - the reason I moved to UWP was the need for win2d. So I'm between a nail and a hard place - I can't go back to WPF , and UWP support is pretty much "in the air"

[robloo]

Here is a fun dialog with the latest VS 2019 version. Microsoft is being disingenuous that those using UWP can continue to do so. Things are breaking more and more especially with third party libraries no longer supporting .NET standard 2.x. Meanwhile, WinUI3 itself is still too buggy and missing features (map, inking, media, etc.). What a great situation...

[jtorjo]

What a great situation...

Trust me, I know. 😢 Imagine doing profiling on a 200K LOC app, and MS's profiling is pretty useless, and I can't use any other tools because they don't support UWP. And that's just one of the many many issues I'm facing

[pubtom]

If you need .NET>5 in UWP please give a vote on this: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Add-NET-678-support-to-UWP/1596483