Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Write (.Net library) once, use everywhere (in .Net world)? The Portable Library Tools CTP Released. (Think “Reusing/Sharing the same Project between SilverLight, XNA, Windows Phone, etc” or “DRY .Net Project Style” )

Visual Studio Gallery - Portable Library Tools CTP

“Portable Library Tools is a new Visual Studio add-in from Microsoft that enables you to create C# and Visual Basic libraries that run on a variety of .NET-based platforms without recompilation.

Simplify code sharing
No more complicated build scripts or #defines, and stop copying and pasting code; portable libraries enable you to easily share code between apps that target different platforms.

Share between platforms
Create a Portable Library project and reference it from any .NET Framework, Silverlight, Windows Phone or XNA project.

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Interesting. I like seeing this formalized and supported.

Note: Requires VS2010 SP1 Beta

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  1. Alan McFFri Jan 21, 02:17:00 AM PST

    The announcement at the BCL Team Blog with some useful information: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2011/01/19/announcing-portable-library-tools-ctp-justin-van-patten.aspx

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