dotnet presents a community standup featuring Bruno Capuano, Sam Basu, and Jérôme Laban, demonstrating how Uno Platform and contextual AI can streamline cross-platform .NET app development.

Building Cross-Platform .NET Apps with Uno Platform & Contextual AI

Overview

In this community standup, Bruno Capuano, Sam Basu, and Jérôme Laban discuss how Uno Platform enables developers to build cross-platform .NET applications across iOS, Android, web (WebAssembly), Windows, macOS, Linux, and embedded devices.

Uno Platform Highlights

Open-Source & Enterprise Grade: Uno Platform is positioned as an open-source solution providing robust developer tooling for cross-platform needs.
Uno Platform Studio: Enhances developer productivity with features like Hot Design—a runtime visual designer paired with Hot Reload—enabling rapid design and code iteration.
Figma Plugin Integration: Eases design-to-code workflows, bridging UI/UX design and implementation to streamline the developer inner loop.

AI Integration with Uno Platform

Contextual AI: The latest Uno Platform release introduces grounded MCP Servers and custom AI Agents.
Human-in-the-Loop Control: Developers can harness context-aware AI to interact with running apps, design, build, and iterate across any IDE or agentic workflow.
Enhanced Developer Experience: AI can see and interact with live applications, making development more responsive and feedback-driven.

Featured Experts

Bruno Capuano: Microsoft developer advocate Profile
Sam Basu: Industry expert Profile
Jérôme Laban: Uno Platform engineer Profile

Community Resources

Microsoft Learn Collection

Key Takeaways

Uno Platform empowers .NET developers to target all major platforms with a unified codebase.
Integrated AI tooling provides powerful, context-driven assistance for testing, designing, and iterating on applications.
Productivity enhancements like Hot Reload, Hot Design, and Figma plugins streamline workflows and drive better outcomes.

Building Cross-Platform .NET Apps with Uno Platform and Contextual AI