I am pleased to announce the release of GrapeCity Spread. NET v14. This release includes new platform support for .NET 5 and .NET Core 3.1 Windows Forms, as well as many new features and enhancements. This release also drops support for the Silverlight and Windows 8.1 Runtime components. GrapeCity will continue to support those components in version 13 and release new builds as needed over the next year.

.NET 5.0 and .NET Core 3.1 Windows Forms Controls

Figure 1 New GrapeCity.Spread.WinForms NuGet Package

Spread. NET v14 includes a new NuGet package GrapeCity.Spread.WinForms for .NET 5 and .NET Core 3.1 WinForms. Using this new package, which will be distributed on nuget.org, users can create WinForms applications using the Spread controls in .NET 5 and .NET Core 3.1 and port existing WinForms projects using GrapeCity Spread. NET controls.

Design-time support is limited in the new platforms, so it is recommended to keep using the full-framework (.NET 4.5.2 and later) controls in regular .NET WinForms projects. Use those projects for editing and design-time, and create separate projects which link the source and resource files to build .NET 5 and .NET Core 3.1 versions.

The new GrapeCity.Spread.WinForms NuGet package supports multi-targeting. Use net5.0-windows;netcoreapp3.1 to create multi-targeted builds. Use the NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio 2019 to install the GrapeCity.Spread.WinForms package in older .NET 4.5.2+ projects to upgrade the controls.

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