🎉 Congratulations to every new and renewing Microsoft MVP!
Thank you for the expertise, time, and energy you continue to invest in the community. Your contributions keep the .NET ecosystem moving forward.
Reminder for MVPs: your complimentary Uno Platform Studio license is ready whenever you are.
#MVPBbuzz
@SkiaSharp gives modern .NET a fast, consistent graphics layer wherever it runs.
@samidip, @jglozano, and @redth explain why it matters and how it powers graphics across applications, custom controls, servers, and more.
Watch the session → youtube.com/watch?v=H1atdM…
4/ We also put together a SkiaSharp + Uno Platform hub.
Replay, resources, links, demos, and everything else from the launch session in one place.
platform.uno/skiasharp
8/ Kumiko: a canvas-drawn DataGrid.
Michael Stonis has been building a real-world DataGrid drawn on canvas with SkiaSharp.
Good example of where SkiaSharp gets interesting: performance, control, and UI that needs to go beyond standard controls.
ston.is/blog/maui/kumi…
1/ SkiaSharp 4.0 is out, a thread 🧵
We did a live session with our friends from Microsoft to talk through what changed, why it matters for .NET devs, and where cross-platform graphics in .NET is heading.
Recording here: youtube.com/live/VeATTSx7Q…
Announcing LibreWPF
Today I'm introducing LibreWPF—an open-source, free, cross-platform implementation of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
The goal of LibreWPF is simple: preserve the WPF programming model while making it available across modern platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, with future support for iOS, Android, and the browser. Existing WPF applications should require little to no code changes, allowing developers to reuse their skills, libraries, and applications beyond Windows.
Powering LibreWPF is ProGPU, a modern high-performance GPU rendering engine designed for demanding desktop applications. ProGPU delivers hardware-accelerated rendering, enabling complex user interfaces, vector graphics, CAD, visualization, and other graphics-intensive workloads while remaining portable across platforms.
Together, LibreWPF and ProGPU aim to give the .NET ecosystem what it has wanted for years: a truly open, high-performance, cross-platform future for WPF.
This is only the beginning, and community contributions are welcome as we build the next generation of WPF together.
@ederbond@mzikmunddev@_waheedahmad@SkiaSharp For clarification
- Uno Platform itself is OSS / Free under Apache 2.0
- Uno Platform STUDIO has Community (Free) and Pro (Paid) license. Both Community and Pro have AI features included , with Pro having more advanced ones. A trial from Studio Pro is fully featured for 2 weeks
That’s a wrap on Focus on SkiaSharp 4. 🎬
Huge thanks to our hosts @Sam and @jglozano, and to all of our guest speakers for showing what’s possible with @UnoPlatform + @SkiaSharp.
From real-world enterprise apps to mind-blowing demos and incredible games, it’s amazing to see what .NET developers are building.
@redth, Matthew Leibowitz, @mzikmunddev, @MichaelStonis, Colin Whitlatch, @sinclairinat0r