The .NET Native Technology

.NET Native is a pre-compilation technology included in .NET Core 5 that allows you to compile Windows 10 universal apps written in managed code into native code directly. In the typical .NET Framework compilation process, your projects are first compiled into intermediate language (IL), and the just-in-time compiler translates IL into native code on-the-fly. In contrast, .NET Native compiles a Windows Store app directly into native code. This has the following advantages:

Image Apps provide the superior performance of native code.

You, as a developer, can still write Visual Basic code as you are used to doing.

You can still ...

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