

NET Framework 4.8.1 is included in the next major update for Windows 11 shipping later this year and will be available for previous operating systems in the future. You can now build managed desktop applications (Windows Forms and WPF) using both. NET 6 has had native support for Arm64 from day one, and this release extends native Arm64 support for the.

Our overarching goal is to prioritize tools and features to run natively where possible and to use emulation only where necessary.

These Workloads will GA at the end of this calendar year, and we will be soliciting feedback from the developer community to help us prioritize even more experiences. NET desktop development (WinForms, WPF) using both.

Our key goal with this preview is to introduce and stabilize the most popular Workloads used by developers who are building apps that run on Arm64, and to gather feedback from the community to help us prioritize additional experiences and Workloads as we work toward General Availability (GA) later this year. We are excited to announce that the release of Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2 is now available as a native Arm64 application on Windows 11! This will be the first version of Visual Studio that will natively support building and debugging Arm64 apps on Arm-based processors.
