ComponentOne .NET 7 Support Updates

December 09 2022

As part of our 2023 v3 release, we’ve ensured full .NET 7 support across all ComponentOne platforms that previously supported .NET 6. We’ve also continued porting our .NET Framework components to be compatible with .NET 6 & 7 for WinForms and WPF by releasing new .NET 6-based libraries with new designers.

In this update below, we’ll share the current status of each ComponentOne WinForms and WPF control for .NET 6 & 7 as of December 2022 and which controls we still plan to support in .NET 6+ moving forward.

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About .NET 7 Support

.NET 7 is the successor to .NET 6 and focuses on being unified, modern, simple, and fast. .NET 7 will be supported by Microsoft for 18 months as a standard-term support (STS). We’ve ensured that our latest .NET 6 libraries for all platforms work in .NET 7 applications, so you can upgrade whenever you are ready.

We support .NET 7 through our .NET 6 or .NET Core-based libraries. As you may know, .NET 6 has long-term support, and we plan to release .NET 8-based libraries later next year, therefore, following a plan to release new version libraries with each long-term supported (LTS) version of .NET.

.NET 7 WinForms Controls Status

Below is the list of WinForms controls supported in .NET 6 & .NET 7 and which controls are still planned for next year.

.NET 6+ Support Ready	.NET 6+ Support Planned	Not Planned
FlexChart FlexGrid FlexPie FlexPivot FlexRadar FlexReport FlexViewer Sunburst TreeMap C1Bitmap C1Button C1CalendarView C1CheckBox C1CheckList C1ColorPicker C1ComboBox C1ContextMenu C1DashboardLayout C1DataFilter C1DbNavigator C1DateEdit C1DockingTab C1Document C1DropDownControl C1DX C1Editor C1Excel/C1XLBook (new version based on .NET Standard) C1ExpressionEditor C1FinancialChart C1FontPicker C1GanttView C1Gauge C1InputPanel C1Label C1Map C1MaskedInput C1Menu C1MultiSelect C1NumericEdit C1PdfDocument (still requires .NET Framework until 2023 v1) C1PdfDocumentSource C1PictureBox C1PrintDocument C1PrintPreview C1RangeSlider C1Ribbon C1RulesManager C1Scheduler C1Sizer C1SizerLight C1Sparkline C1SpellChecker C1SplitButton C1SplitContainer C1SuperTooltip C1TagEditor C1TextBox C1Themes C1TileControl C1ToolBar C1TouchToolkit C1TreeView C1TrueDBGrid C1Zip	C1Chart3D C1Combo C1FilterEditor C1List C1RadialMenu C1Win7Pack	C1Calendar - use C1CalendarView C1Chart - use FlexChart C1DataSource C1DynamicHelp C1FlexGridClassic C1LiveLinq C1NavBar - use C1Accordion (2022 v2) C1OutBar - use C1Accordion (2022 v2) C1Report - use FlexReport C1ReportDesigner - use FlexReportDesigner C1TopicBar C1Word

.NET 7 WPF Controls Status

Below is the list of WPF controls supported in .NET 6 & .NET 7 and which controls are still planned for next year.

.NET 6+ Support Ready	.NET 6+ Support Planned	Not Planned
FlexChart FlexGrid FlexPie FlexPivot FlexRadar FlexReport FlexViewer C1Accordion C1ActivityIndicator C1Barcode C1Calendar C1ColorPicker C1ComboBox C1ContextMenu C1DataFilter C1DataPager C1DatePicker C1DateTimePicker C1DockControl C1DockPanel C1Document C1DragDropManager C1DropDown C1Dx C1Excel/C1XLBook (new version based on .NET Standard) C1Expander C1FilePicker C1FilterEditor C1FinancialChart C1HyperlinkButton C1ListView C1Maps C1MaskedTextBox C1Menu C1MenuList C1MultiSelect C1NumericBox C1PdfDocumentSource C1ProgressBar C1PropertyGrid C1RadialMenu C1RangeSlider C1Ribbon C1RichTextBox C1Scheduler C1Sparkline C1SpellChecker C1SplitButton C1TabControl C1TagEditor C1Themes (System and Material themes only) C1TimeEditor C1TreeMap C1TreeView C1Window C1WrapPanel C1Zip Sunburst	C1Chart3D C1ExpressionEditor C1FlexSheet C1GanttView C1Gauges C1InputPanel C1Rating	C1Binding C1Bitmap C1Book C1Carousel C1Chart - use FlexChart C1CheckList - use ListView C1DataGrid - use FlexGrid C1DataSource C1DocumentViewer - use FlexViewer C1HyperPanel C1ListBox - use C1ListView C1MediaPlayer C1OrgChart C1OutlookBar - use C1Accordion C1PdfDocument C1PdfViewer - use FlexViewer C1ReportViewer - use FlexViewer C1Tile C1TileView C1Toolbar - use C1Ribbon C1Word

.NET 6+ Design-Time Support

If you’ve moved from .NET Framework to .NET 6+, you may have noticed that our designers are lacking. Microsoft rewrote the WinForms designer based upon .NET Core, so we’ve had to port and rewrite 10+ years of component designers. With each update, we continue to roll out more designer support for our WinForms controls. For example, in the 2022 v3 release, we’ve enhanced FlexGrid’s column designers.

We’ve also provided new WPF designers based on the suggested actions menu (lightbulb) for many of our controls. These help quickly set properties and generate XAML for certain features.