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Programming Introduction / Notes for .NET 6/.NET 7/.NET 8
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    General

    List & Label supports .NET 6, .NET 7 and .NET 8. For this purpose, in addition to the .NET Framework 4.8 assemblies in the ..\Samples\Microsoft .NET\.NET Framework 4\Assemblies\ directory, the assemblies for the respective LTS framework versions are also provided:

    Version Assemblies Samples
    .NET 4 Framework

    Yes

    ..\Samples\Microsoft .NET\.NET Framework 4\Assemblies\

    Yes

    ..\Samples\Microsoft .NET\.NET Framework 4\

    .NET 6 (LTS)

    Yes

    ..\Samples\Microsoft .NET\.NET 6\Assemblies\

    Yes

    ..\Samples\Microsoft .NET\.NET 6\

    .NET 7

    No

    Note: Please use the assemblies from the previous .NET version.

    No

    Note: Please use the examples of the other .NET Framework versions.

    .NET 8 (LTS)

    Yes

    ..\Samples\Microsoft .NET\.NET 8\Assemblies\

    No

    Note: Please use the examples of the other .NET Framework versions.

    However we recommend using the NuGet Packages instead of the local references.

     

    Platform Independence

    .NET Core has the significant advantage that it aims at platform independence in order to be able to run applications not only on Microsoft Windows systems. Since List & Label interacts strongly with the Microsoft Windows system and its resources (e.g. printer driver system etc.) List & Label cannot fulfill this platform independence despite the support of .NET Core and still requires a Windows system.

     

    Known Limitations

    The List & Label component also contains a visual control that cannot be used:

     

    As part of the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, a separate DataSource component is supplied, which can be placed primarily as a UI control, e.g. on a WinForm and also offers so-called SmartTags within the Visual Studio IDE. The data providers and components used there cannot be used in this context: