Infragistics 2021.1 .NET 5 WinForms Designer Support

Hi there

I have a question for you regarding the functionality in our .NET 4.6.2 C# WinForms product which makes heavy use of Infragistics 19.1 control including the grid control

It should also be noted that we develop using Visual Studio Pro 2019 v16.10

I would like to also target our products at .NET 5 (.NET Core 5) can you please tell me if all the Infragistics controls in the new 2021.1 release are now fully supportive of the Visual Studio toolbox and Windows Forms designer experience in the same way that we have had with .NET Framework 4.6.2

Thanks in advance

Geoff

Hi Geoff, 

v21.1 includes NetCore Designer Support for most of the controls, and we expect to release more in upcoming service releases. There's a complete list here: 

https://www.infragistics.com/help/winforms/whats-new-in-2021-volume-1

I'm not sure exactly what mean you mean about "Visual Studio toolbox and Windows Forms designer experience in the same way that we have had with .NET Framework 4.6.2." The toolbox doesn't work the same for NetCore as it does for DotNetFramework applications. But as far as I know, we already have toolbox support for our NetCore assembly packages.

There is currently a problem with using the designers in Visual Studio Pro 2019 v16.10 because our assemblies are targeting v16.9.5 and Microsoft released v16.10 practically on the same day we released v21.1 and so we are currently working to resolve these issues ASAP. So you might want to wait just a bit until our next Service Release. 

Thanks Mike, when do you expect the Service Release for support of VIsual Studio 16.10 to be available? Is this at a specified point in time or will it be as soon as this fix is made available?

Regards

Geoff

Looks like it's scheduled for this Friday….

http://www.infragistics.com/…/service-releases

Sorry, I was mistaken. It looks like the Service release is only for the older versions and doesn't include v21.1. 
So I'm not sure exactly when the fix for this issue will be released. Hopefully very soon. 

Hi Mike

Any update on this? I cannot see any service releases yet for 2021 Vol 1

Thanks

Geoff

Hi Geoff, 

Pretty sure this is fixed in our latest bi-weekly build. Which means you can get it by checking the "Include prerelease" checkbox in the NuGet package manager in Visual Studio. 

Any update to this? .NET 5 now requires VS2019 16.8 or higher so my futile attempt to downgrade my VS in order to use a product we pay for was in vain. I thought trying to use ignite UI for Blazor was a horrible experience, at least I could get it to work. Well, I guess I did have to revert to the 2020 version of ignite UI for Blazor so this seems par for the course. 

Hi Joe, 

I'm confused. The issue reported here was already fixed a while ago, as I explained in my last reply. But this is regarding Windows Forms – it's nothing to do with Blazor. 

Hi Mike,
According to the release notes for v12.1  "All included assemblies have been built against Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.0. You must have this version of the framework installed for the product to work."
How can these be .NET 5 compatible if they require the .NET Framework Version 4? 

When do you expect to release a version of your controls built on, and fully compatible with .NET 5, that don't require the .NET Framework?  

Hi Bill, 

v12.1 s over 10 years old. So there's no way that version could possibly be compatible with Net 5, which was only released recently. 

The latest version of the control are available for .Net 5, though. I'm not sure exactly what version we started supported .Net 5 in. I think it was 20.2 or maybe 21.1.