Regarding the EOL of .NET 8

Here is a quote from “Read This First” guide: “PTC Mathcad Prime 12.0.0.0 has also been migrated to run on Microsoft .NET, enabling future releases to take advantage of the powerful new development tools provided by that platform”.

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This is a user-led forum, but the PTC Mathcad product manager is holding an Ask Me Anything session next week, right here on the Community.

The answer to this question is inherently a product roadmap one, so if you’re okay with it, I’d like to move this question to his AMA queue and he should give a response on May 5.

Thanks for the prompt response.

There is a note also at the Prime v12 download section - Note: PTC Mathcad Prime 12.0.0.0 requires the latest Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0.x package for Windows x64. Download and install the package and restart PTC Mathcad Prime 12.0.0.0.

I am okay with this question being moved AMA queue.

HI,

The .NET update plan is for us to make sure that each newly released version of Mathcad Prime is on a version of .NET that is fully supported by Microsoft. We moved Prime 12.0.0.0 to .NET 8 as that was the one available when we started the work, but you are correct - that is a shorter term supported version of .NET from Microsoft. That first move to .NET 8 was very resource intensive but now we’re on .NET, the transition to newer versions should be much simpler.

Mathcad Prime 12.0.1.0, releasing in the autumn, before .NET 8 is off support, will support .NET 10. Moving forward, we are planning .NET support for versions of Mathcad Prime based on the .NET version support length. In summary - we will never allow the latest version of Mathcad to only be available on an unsupported version of .NET.

Many thanks,
Andy.

Thanks for making that clear !