The culprit? .
The progress bar crawled. He watched the output window:
Marcus stared at the screen. His coffee had gone cold two hours ago. devcomponents dotnetbar visual studio 2022
Restoring packages for LegacyERP.csproj... Updating 'DotNetBar' from 12.1.0 to 14.3.0... Applying new API mappings... When it finished, he rebuilt the solution.
He held his breath and hit .
The type or namespace name 'RibbonBar' could not be found.
The app wouldn't compile. Red squiggles lit up the error list like a Christmas tree. The Office2007Ribbon control? Missing. SuperTabControl ? Throwing a TypeLoadException . The culprit
Marcus opened the NuGet Package Manager in VS2022. He searched for DevComponents.DotNetBar . Version 12.1.0.1—from 2016.
Marcus realized: the legacy code was using GDI+ rendering. The new DotNetBar version automatically used Direct2D on Windows 10/11. His ancient ERP was now rendering at 144 FPS. He watched the output window: Marcus stared at the screen
In the commit message, he wrote:
But something felt... smoother .