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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/21685196

Beware if you're updating to .NET 9 and need your MAUI Windows app working

 

Beware if you're updating to .NET 9 and need your MAUI Windows app working

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The rest of useful information is pretty much not available without premium account anyway

That's not true. There's was more info there than your 2 sentences. e.g. syncing to other devices.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

Of course I read it. Why would you think I didn't? There was more info there than your "2 sentences".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I looked again, since the text I could see there was different to what I saw on the site, and that is actually at the BOTTOM of the page - there's a whole bunch of the article above that - so for some reason your phone(?) is taking you to the bottom of the page (I'm on desktop and it opens up at the top of the page).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Paywall? I had no trouble getting it to display.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Issue is now closed - "The fix is included in 9.0 GA. This did not make it in time for RC2"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just to be clear, it's not MY book, but the book of whoever's blog that is (Michael someone) - that's the title of the blog post "My book...".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Ah ok. I saw there was issues with federation and communities getting blocked, didn't think either of those would be it. Thanks for letting me know!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, provided you meet the criteria, so I'm guessing maybe he doesn't... or maybe he just wants to make the point that MS are earning income from this and yet not providing any more support than a free product is providing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He's referring to Visual Studio.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, that's his point. That if you've released your app close to the end of the period, then you're forced to upgrade your app right away, even just to keep getting security patches, on top of any bugs you might already be trying to get on top of with your newly released app. Other systems have a longer support period and you wouldn't be faced with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Sorry. Hadn't occurred to me you may not be able to see it (usually it's me who can't see things others post! 😂 ).

In a nutshell it boils down to the release schedule for .NET/C# - which people are paying to use - is too quick with too short support periods. He compares to another language, which is free (from memory I think it was Rust? I'd have to watch it again to see) which has the same short support periods, but is FREE. i.e. what are we paying for if we're not getting support for any longer than something which has the same support period for free? He's saying since MS is charging people for this, the support periods need to be longer, specifically security patches. e.g. if someone releases an app near the end of a period, then has only say 6 months before they have to upgrade it already, just to keep getting security patches. People don't have the option to stay on their stable release for a decent amount of time, even though they're paying for it. He just wants them to slow down the speed and increase the periods (we all know MS is all about pushing out new features over fixing bugs).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

the .NET environment is vast and can be confusing, especially when new to it.

Yeah it was prompted by someone on Mastodon asking about it, and Rocky saw it. I saw the reply too, and thought it was still a little vague, then a few days later this blog post turns up :-)

BTW if anyone wants to follow him he's Rocky Lhotka. He's on Pixelfed too (and Bluesky), but not as much work stuff on his Pixelfed account.

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