App Center for WPF and WinForms

In this episode, Robert is joined by Winnie Li and Matt Korwel, who show the new App Center enables support for diagnostics, analytics and distribution for .NET Framework apps. They show how to easily deploy your WPF and WinForms apps, monitor the health of the apps and gain real time insights.

[dotnetdevni]

20 years to late still love winforms and always will can’t wait to see new controls come out to the standard list app centre is fantastic.

[ErichHafenmaier]

This is absolutely awesome and will be a game changer for some of the projects my current dev team is working on. The insight with analytics alone is huge. We have a couple of native iOS and Android apps setup in Azure DevOps pipelines that push over to App Center for distribution and it's been a great experience for getting a copy of the app into testers hands. Even though it's currently a manual process to distribute WinForms/WPF it was good to hear the Azure DevOps -> App Center flow is in the works.

Kudos and thank you..!

One question: Any plans to incorporate in-app updates..? I've worked with both ClickOnce and more recently Squirrel but have somewhat of a love/hate relationship with both of those.

[dotnetdevni]

Be interesting to no how u force the install into specific directory’s etc looking forward to testing this.

[SKglitches]

Does this work if I don't want users to run the installer everytime but instead do my own auto-update through my app files stored in database which will download only the lastest changed files in the last version? E.g. I update only backend dll so on the next start, the application will check for updates in the db and download only the new backend dll.
Does this also somehow support having user's feedback in the log? E.g. having a dialog where the users writes what happened and that will be included in the online web application?

[LindenMikus]

is the distribution only through email? would be nice if they opened the app and it gave a message about new version or so..

[TABULATouch]

Is this going to work also for console C# apps and Unity native desktop (non UWP) ?
For console apps it seems the error reporting setup and logic is not intrinsically coupled to WPF UI.
Am I wrong?

[VaibhavGawali]

Is there support for mix environment of WinForm & WPF app? And does this require paid subscription?

[severt]

Hi, I would like to ask if it is possible to add also some auto-update check?

[jeffreyandrews]

Can this be used with production apps?

[rodrigocaballerohurtado]

awesome guys I can't wait to use a WPF core app with AppCenter soon! thanks for the video

[alxridepov]

Robert, the poor guy wanted to give you a handshake at the end... :D Nice as always though

[brianjohnson]

I watch all of videos, great stuff. I would like to see some mini tutorials for beginners. There are plenty of how too's on the web but you can't beat the professionals.

[sourcephy]

I hope someday we can have a crossplatform desktop app.

[tornet]

maybe it is available on VS 2019 only ... like .Net Core Winform << LOL