[mapguide-users] .net8+ support

[Jackie Ng]

Good news for you! As part of the overhaul to use vanilla SWIG to generate
all of our managed bindings, the .net binding is now built as a set of
netstandard2.0 assemblies, so it will work on:

   - "legacy" .net Framework 4.x
   - .net core (all versions that support netstandard2.0)
   - .net 5 and every version going forward

The .nuget packages are now also built the "proper way" so unmanaged native
dlls are automatically handled and copied by MSBuild. No more hacky
post-build "copy unmanaged dlls" commands required. The current 4.0 beta 2
ships the .nuget package files inside the $INSTALL/Web/nuget folder.

Once we reach 4.0 final, these nuget packages will also be published to
nuget.org, so no matter how you slice it, the developer story for building
MapGuide .net applications in 4.0 will always be: Install the relevant
nuget packages, whether that be local .nuget package files that are shipped
with the release or through nuget.org

However, I must stress this very important point: Do not take
netstandard2.0 support to imply that this will also work for .net on
non-Windows platforms. Linux .net support may or may not be the case
come 4.0 final release, but OSX and any other non-Windows platforms are a
hard and definite no.

- Jackie

You wrote:

Hi Jackie,



Is there some plan to migrate Mapguide on .net8 (or higher) ?



Cheers,

Bruno Scott
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