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The WinForms designer for .NET Core+ was added throughout the past point releases of Visual Studio 2019, and this has caused several regressions for the .NET Framework designer, most of which have been fixed. The .NET Core designer, however, is not close to feature parity with the .NET Framework designer. Many of the techniques used to make and reuse custom controls are missing. A promise was made to provide control developers 'new guidance' on GitHub, yet this never materialized. Would it be possible to have the WinForms Designer team publish a roadmap of the various bugs and features that are going to be addressed and the timeline for them to be addressed? The guidance for control developers would be great as well.
timheuer
Microsoft
MicrosoftThanks Steven, apologies for the regressions in the Framework experience :-(. The idea of focusing on the roadmap, especially around the control dev guidance. I'll pass this along to the core designer group and see if we can be more transparent here on the fixes/features specifically.
- I appreciated that the regressions were handled quickly, which is the best one could hope for. Not so satisfied in the bug reporting process. Seems like you need to collect a video in addition to repro steps and sample source code before it gets through the first layer. As such it is a huge time sink for me to report what I think is an issue but is really a known gap - except no one outside of the team knows what is expected not to work. This is the point of frustration, and getting some transparency here would go a long way!
- timheuerSorry for the frustration on the bug reporting. We get a lot incoming as you can imagine in the way of feedback and reports. For things like designers, the videos and the diag logs really do help accelerate the process so we appreciate you taking the time to do that.