How to use .Net Native in WinForm and C# (Visual Studio 2015)?

Question

I've just downloaded Visual Studio Community 2015 and I want to configure the .Net Native in my WinForm & C# Project, how do I do that?

Answer 1

.Net Native team member here. Steffen is correct that the 2015 releases of .Net Native are only designed to support UWP development. One problematic thing about older tech like WPF and WinForms is that they don't fit onto the API surface are of .Net Core which is the set of APIs we're running with for our new stacks.

We'll continue to look for new places to have ahead of time compilation available but it's mostly determined by need and by resourcing on our end (only so many dev hours in a day!). In particular, UWP applications need to run great on low end tablets and phones so not having to run a code generator on those devices is a huge win. HTH.