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@nickrandolph.builttoroam.com

Tech Lead at Built to Roam, Microsoft MVP. Building cross platform solutions using WinUI (WinAppSdk) and Uno Platform

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Seven years in, we're launching a new chapter for Uno Platform, redefining dev productivity.

ANNOUNCING:

πŸ‘‰ Uno Platform Studio GA πŸš€
πŸ‘‰ Uno Platform 6.0 – reengineered for speed & ease (3x faster startup, 45x faster execution!)

This is EPIC. Let's dive in! 🧡
#dotnet #CrossPlatform #MSBuild

09.05.2025 13:01 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5

Using Hot Design from @UnoPlatform to design out a app that connects to #PhiSilica on #windows to build an #AI driven chat app - nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com/ai-on-window...

06.04.2025 04:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI on Windows: Chatting with Phi Silica - Nick's .NET Travels Last year Microsoft introduced Phi Silica and recently made an experimental release of the Windows App Sdk that can be used by Windows application to interact with Phi Silica. In this post we’ll conne...

Add AI to your Windows app using #PhiSilica and the #WinAppSdk / @UnoPlatform - nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com/ai-on-window...

30.03.2025 14:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
AI on Windows: Detecting NPU - Nick's .NET Travels Recently Microsoft has been promoting Copilot+ PCs as the next wave of tablets, laptops and PCs capable of handling your AI requirements. Other than having a Copilot button, what does this actually me...

Detect NPU on Windows device before you start calling Windows Copilot Runtime APIs:
nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com/detecting-npu/
#AI #CopilotRuntime #Windows #Npu

16.03.2025 03:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Building Cross Platform Applications using Hot Design and Codespaces with Uno Platform and No IDE - Nick's .NET Travels Ok, so the title is a bit of a mouthful but here’s the scenario – you want to quickly spin up an application but you don’t want to mess around downloading and installing any of the usual development t...

Cross platform apps using @platform.uno and @github.com Codespaces nicksnettravelswp.builttoroam.com/uno-platform...

28.02.2025 08:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI App Builders – Take 3 – TempoLabs - Nick's .NET Travels I was watching overview of TempoLabs and my initial impression was β€œwow, that’s a lot of stuff” as they not only have AI generation but it seems they understand at least the basics of a software devle...

Part 3 (TempoLabs) of my exploration of AI App Builders - nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com/ai-app-build...
#AI #AppBuilder #Tools

23.02.2025 04:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel this about virtually every "video that could have been a (short) blog post". Thankfully through a combination of x2 playback and transcription, you can skip through a lot of it.

21.02.2025 13:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI App Builders - Take 2 - Lovable - Nick's .NET Travels Following from my previous attempt at building a simple app to retrieve the ABN for a business, I figured I’d give lovable.dev a go. This will be a quick post to cover some of the likes/dislikes from ...

Part II of Human versus AI App Builders - nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com/ai-app-build...
#AI #AppBuilder

19.02.2025 12:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Build apps using AI they say..... I've started to try out some of the tools. First result in: Human Devs: 1, AI App Builder: 0
nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com/ai-app-builder…
#AI #AppBuilder

09.02.2025 06:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Logging with Azure Application Insights in a Windows Application - Nick's .NET Travels The default template for a Windows application comes with almost no guidance for how developers should do even basic things like logging. Luckily, the Uno Platform wizard provides a simple way to crea...

A quick walkthrough of adding Application Insights logging to your #WinAppSdk and @UnoPlatform application - nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com/logging-with...

08.02.2025 12:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is this what Microsoft means by a copilot PC?

01.02.2025 15:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome session with Robert and Leslie - completely forgot to demo the support for Hot Design with mobile devices and emulators. Check it out!

29.01.2025 06:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm glad you still commit to these jokes....

27.12.2024 07:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah right, makes sense.

19.12.2024 19:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

is this using a specific plugin for Figma?

19.12.2024 14:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't signed up for it ($40+ per month), so can't confirm, but isn't Copilot now integrated into Microsoft 365? I would assume that it would do the type of thing you're looking for

05.12.2024 06:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
05.12.2024 04:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Except React Native is OSS, which they just happen to contribute/sponsor the windows impl for. How is that different from Uno, which relies entirely on WinUI for the windows impl.

01.12.2024 08:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So there's already a section on cross platform Dev, which focuses on WinUI options, so it would make sense to have Uno there. Tbh if they're serious about being an FAQ for windows Dev they should include Avalonia and Flutter. I'm not sure why that wouldnt be considered useful in the context

01.12.2024 06:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How do you figure that? Uno is the only other X-Plat framework they haven't listed that uses WinUI as the Windows implementation.

01.12.2024 03:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Would be great to see @platform.uno added to the list of options for cross platform development for WinUI/WinAppSdk developers!!

30.11.2024 15:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just dropped #WinUIEx 2.5.0 which features a new fast and low-level splash screen function for responsive app startup. It can even use the splash screens defined in your manifest automatically: dotmorten.github.io/WinUIEx/conc... #WinUI

19.11.2024 04:12 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stable channel release notes for the Windows App SDK - Windows apps Provides information about the stable release channel for the Windows App SDK.

Check out #WindowsAppSDK v1.6.3 release notes learn.microsoft.com/en-au/window...

19.11.2024 02:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Uno Platform Wait List Available Soon HOT DESIGN Sign up for a Uno Platform accountto get on the Beta license waitlist. https://youtu.be/fODrUH0zno0

Once you've watched the video, get on the waitlist platform.uno/waitlist/

19.11.2024 01:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Announcing Uno Platform Studio and Hot Design
Announcing Uno Platform Studio and Hot Design YouTube video by dotnet

What do you get when you cross a legacy designer concept with a forward looking innovative team? You get Hot Design by @platform.uno. if you missed the announcement at #dotnetconf, check out the recording at youtu.be/sJPyieyt1Rc?...
#dotnet #winappsdk #designer

19.11.2024 01:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

It was a demo packed session at #dotnetconf with #unoplatform Hot Design! I had a blast presenting it with @thenickrandolph.bsky.social!

We hope you enjoyed it :) It will be in replay in the next few days on the .NET Conf site, and YouTube, as usual.

#dotnet

14.11.2024 22:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The wait is over.
Next-Gen Visual Designer for Cross-Platform .NET Apps is here.

Transform your running app into a Designer from any IDE, on any OS.

Please meet Hot Design.
platform.uno/blog/uno-pla...

#dotNETConf

14.11.2024 18:48 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 8
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Another #WindowsInsider Canary Channel build is ready to take flight. Check out the latest blog post for details of build 27749!

aka.ms/WIP27749

13.11.2024 18:14 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Merged PR 11759027: Snap 1.7-experimental1: main to release/1.7-stable Β· microsoft/WindowsAppSDK@65d3f87 A microsoft employee must use /azp run to validate using the pipelines below. WARNING: Comments made by azure-pipelines bot maybe inaccurate. Please see pipeline link to verify that the build is b...

Windows App SDK 1.7 branch shows signs of CameraCaptureUI, OAuth authentication and BackgroundTasks oauth and backgroundtask in 1.7: github.com/microsoft/Wi... #dotnetconf

13.11.2024 00:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0