The Uno Platform is a platform for building multi-platform .NET apps from a single codebase. 

In the 5.0 release, support for C# Markup has been added. According to the project maintainers, C# Markup was desired by programmers because it allows them to build a full application from just that language. “A massive bit of feedback from the community has been the need to learn multiple languages to build an Uno Platform application,” the Uno Platform Team explained in a blog post. 

C# Markup supports standard WinUI, Uno.Toolkit, and Uno.Extensions controls, or developers can use the C# Markup support generator to use any third-party control. It also comes packaged with capabilities like data binding, styles, resources, templates, and visual states. 

Another benefit is that the language allows app UIs to be created declaratively and have a clear separation between the UI and the underlying business logic. 

The Uno Platform Team also released a Figma to C# Markup plugin, which is inspired by the Figma-to-XAML plugin. 

Several updates were made to the MVUX extension, which implements the Model-View-Update design pattern. It now takes better advantage of Hot Reload, which is a capability that allows developers to update code and run it without needing to pause and rebuild the app. Now, Model and View can be altered without the applications needing to be restarted. 

The team also created a course for learning about Hot Reload. The hands-on workshop guides developers through building a simple calculator that takes advantage of this feature. It also created another workshop that teaches how to build an app for streaming YouTube videos that can be deployed across multiple platforms, which also highlights the benefits of MVUX. 

Other improvements in Uno Platform 5.0 include MP4 camera capture for iOS, improved composition support for Skia targets, improved DPI scaling and theming support for GTK, and more.

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Developers can maintain pixel-perfect control over where pixels go while having a choice of developing a platform-specific or custom look and feel of your application. For example, a button will use the original UWP/WinUI style to draw the same look-and-feel button on desktop, mobile and on a web platform.

Uno Platform uses XAML styling to easily target native controls if desired, on each individual control on screen.

The newest release of the platform is version 3.9, which brings support for .NET 6 (for iOS, Android, mac Catalyst and macOS), support for Visual Studio 2022 templates, WinAppSDK 0.8.1, Focus management updates, and a XAML Trimming feature to reduce the size of WebAssembly apps.

The move to .NET 6 means that the simpler SDK-style projects are used for most targets except for UWP. This allowed the developers behind the project to merge all mobile targets into one project. 

Additional details on Uno Platform are available here.

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Device enhancements include a new Wear OS pairing assistant to make it easier to pair Wear OS emulations; the completion of the development and testing workflow for Automotive OS, enabling the emulator to now use car sensor data to simulate driving; and out-of-the-box support for landscape in templates to better support apps for tablets.

Productivity enhancements include lint checks for Android 12, an Accessibility Scanner for Layout Editor, Test Matrix for viewing test results across multiple devices, preview support for Apple Silicon, and a Background Task Inspector to help analyze background workers. 

Uno Platform 3.9

According to the company, this latest release adds support for .NET 6, support for Visual Studio 2022 templates, WinAppSDK 0.8.1, Focus management updates, and a XAML Trimming feature that reduces the size of WebAssembly apps by nearly 50%. 

It includes a number of other smaller improvements and bug fixes as well, including detection of Uno.UI and Uno.WinUI mixing, Linux installation documentation, and animated icon support.

More information is available here. 

Couchbase Server 7 now available

The latest version of Couchbase Server combines features of relational databases, such as ACID transactions, with the flexibility of modern databases. This enables companies to accelerate moving business-critical applications to the cloud to improve application flexibility and developer agility, the company explained. 

Key highlights of this release include fully mature SQL transaction capabilities, a dynamic data containment model to ensure zero downtime during updates, and collection-level processing of data access, partitioning, and index isolation to improve performance. 

“With Couchbase Server 7, the relational versus NoSQL database debate is over,” said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president of engineering and CTO of Couchbase. “Modern developers no longer have to struggle with having multiple databases– a relational database for transactionality, and a NoSQL database for flexibility and scale. We are delighted to be the first modern Database-as-a-Service provider to combine traditional relational database functionality like SQL and transactions with the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL.”

AtScale launches AI-Link

AI-Link offers a Python interface to connect AtScale to data science and analytics programs. According to the company, AtScale’s semantic layer provides the governance, consistency, and compliance that is needed to scale business intelligence and AI while accelerating connections to public and private cloud data.  

Other benefits of AI-Link include reduced complexity of data wrangling and preparation, the ability to tap into qualitative and quantitative values of data, accelerated feature engineering, model reusability, and automated writeback of data science model predictions. 

“Giving line-of-business users and executives the ability to access, analyze and act on machine learning predictions and augmented analytics is the real value of enterprise AI,” said Christopher Lynch, executive chairman and CEO of AtScale. “We’re seeing more and more organizations embrace the convergence of artificial intelligence and business intelligence as a fundamental component of their digital transformation.”

Fortanix announces Data Security Manager now available as a SaaS solution

Data Security Manager (DSM) SaaS provides the benefits of the on-premise data security solution while also meeting the security standards for the cloud, such as FIPS 140-2 Level 3. 

“It’s a dangerous world for data, and many organizations just don’t have the time or skilled staff required to deploy new data security solutions,” said Ambuj Kumar, CEO and co-founder of Fortanix. “With DSM SaaS, customers can now get complete access to the exact data security that they need literally within minutes, and then stay secure as their needs grow and change.”

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