We have several Xamarin apps that use the Zebra.Printer.SDK nuget package that we would like to update to .NET MAUI. However this package hasn't been updated in over 3 years. Are there any plans to update it to support .NET 6?
Zebra.Printer.SDK for .NET 6// Expert user has replied. |
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Currently, there is no plan to migrate the Link-OS SDK for Xamarin to the .NET 6. Fortunately, the .NET Framework will not vanish any time soon, so we can continue building apps based on .NET Framework with the Link-OS SDK for Xamarin.
Some of my own development work has had to held back to .net 4.8 purely because of the lack of .net 6 version of the Zebra SDK. I support other printer types from other manufacturers and those are fine in .net6 as they use pinvokes.
I have to follow certain security guidelines and with a few customers we've skirted around the reliance on 4.8 when they do a security audit on the projects.
If the code was released as open source we could at least have a go at converting it ourselves, possibly even fix some of the issues I've found with it over the past few years that are still present - hard wired reliance on snmp for instance.
This is very disappointing. We cannot build contemporary apps using zebra technologies product.