Context: David Ortinau walked through the Foundry Agent Service GA announcement and docs as a .NET developer already using Agent Framework + M.E.AI + Foundry model endpoints. This documents what we found.
A .NET developer today using:
PolyPilot hints at a future where the tool a developer is running is also the tool they are editing, with Copilot standing by to patch the live codebase and relaunch the experience instantly. Today, .NET MAUI largely hides behind NuGet packages; developers consume binaries, report bugs, and wait for maintainers to publish fixes. Flutter, conversely, places the framework and engine sources on every machine, inviting developers to debug, instrument, and modify the stack. This proposal imagines .NET MAUI adopting a similar source-first distribution and pairing it with Copilot-powered contribution gestures so every MAUI developer can become a potential framework contributor while building their app.
A source-first MAUI workspace would clone the framework next to every app, exposing src/Core, src/Controls, platform handlers, and native bindings. Developers could set brea
| using System; | |
| using System.Collections.Generic; | |
| using System.ComponentModel; | |
| using System.Linq; | |
| using System.Text; | |
| using Android.App; | |
| using Android.Content; | |
| using Android.OS; | |
| using Android.Runtime; |
| using Android.Views; | |
| public int Count = 0; | |
| public void Iterate(View view) { | |
| if (view is ViewGroup) | |
| IterateViewChildren(view); | |
| System.Console.WriteLine($"Total Children {Count}"); | |
| } |
| [2017-10-19 15:19:26.1] INFO: : Initializing the previewer with Android API level 25. | |
| [2017-10-19 15:19:26.2] Renderer >> ERROR: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: mono.android.D3DImageFactory | |
| [2017-10-19 15:19:26.2] Renderer >> at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) | |
| [2017-10-19 15:19:26.2] Renderer >> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) | |
| [2017-10-19 15:19:26.2] Renderer >> at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:335) | |
| [2017-10-19 15:19:26.2] Renderer >> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) | |
| [2017-10-19 15:19:26.2] Renderer >> at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) | |
| [2017-10-19 15:19:26.2] Renderer >> at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264) | |
| [2017-10-19 15:19:26.2] Renderer >> at mono.android.DesignerSession.initializePlatformSpecific(DesignerSession.java:88) | |
| [2017-10-19 15:19:26.2] Renderer >> at mono.android.DesignerSession.<init>(DesignerSession.java:77) |
| INFO [2017-08-24 11:44:57Z]: Launching iOS Simulator: /Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.iOS.framework/Versions/Current/bin/mlaunch -sdkroot "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer" --launchsim "/Users/dave/Projects/BackBindings/iOS/bin/iPhoneSimulator/Debug/device-builds/iphone9.1-10.3.1/BackBindings.iOS.app" --argument=-monodevelop-port --argument=54439 --setenv=__XAMARIN_DEBUG_PORT__=54439 --sdk "10.3.1" --device=:v2:runtime=com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-10-3,devicetype=com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-7 | |
| ERROR [2017-08-24 11:45:02Z]: An unhandled exception has occured. Terminating Visual Studio? False | |
| System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object | |
| at MonoDevelop.CSharp.PathedDocumentTextEditorExtension.<UpdateOwnerProjects>b__18_1 (MonoDevelop.Projects.DotNetProject p) [0x00000] in /Users/builder/data/lanes/4989/9c529966/source/monodevelop/main/src/addins/CSharpBinding/MonoDevelop.CSharp/PathedDocumentTextEditorExtension.cs:260 | |
| at System.Linq.Enum |
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