1 week Ago By Paul Thurrott
Uno Platform today announced its new Uno Platform Studio with Hot Design, a visual designer for cross-platform .NET apps that offers a modern take on popular WYSIWYG designers of the past, like Visual Basic 6.0 and Borland Delphi.
“Uno Platform Studio is a suite of productivity tools featuring Hot Design, a next-generation Visual Designer for .NET cross-platform apps,” . “To make every developer as productive as possible, Uno Platform Studio aids developers through the various parts of the development lifecycle, from design handoff to continuously designing and building the app.
” Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday — get free copies of Paul Thurrott's Windows 11 and Windows 10 Field Guides (normally $9.99) as a special welcome gift! Uno Platform Studio is an attempt to address a long list of limitations in the developer tools, app previewers, and legacy designers that developers struggle with today. It offers a runtime visual designer that works in real time, so you can change an app without restarting it.
Three are three core components to this solution: The Hot Design visual designer, Hot Reload for seeing changes without restarting the app during development, and a Figma plug-in that exports an app design to XAML or C# markup. Hot Design works with Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Rider on Windows, Mac, or Linux (as available), and changes made in the visual designers are reflected immediately in the underlying XAML code. It supports user-created components and live data sources, and because it’s not dependent on a state management pattern, it works with both MVVM and MVUX patterns.
Developers interested in Uno Platform Studio can . Uno will provide a live demo of this tool on today at 5:00 pm ET/2:00 pm PT, and if you miss that, you can watch it on replay. Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books.
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