CsWinRT vs AvaloniaEdit

CsWinRT

C# language projection for the Windows Runtime (by microsoft)

Windows C# Desktop winui3 dotnet5 Winrt

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AvaloniaEdit

Avalonia-based text editor (port of AvalonEdit) (by AvaloniaUI)

Avalonia Editor text-editor code-editor Netstandard

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CsWinRT		AvaloniaEdit
	Project
6	Mentions	1
496	Stars	640
2.0%	Growth	6.4%
7.8	Activity	8.2
8 days ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	MIT License

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CsWinRT

Posts with mentions or reviews of CsWinRT. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-24.

Leaked Microsoft poll shows fewer employees have confidence in leadership
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2023
Can I package a WinUI component as a nuget without WinRT limitations?
1 project | /r/dotnet | 20 Mar 2023
Is it a bad idea to start a UWP app in 2022?
14 projects | /r/dotnet | 20 Jun 2022

https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT (105)
Bluetooth LE in .NET 6 WPF
3 projects | /r/dotnet | 29 Mar 2022

You can try to make use of CsWinRT, to access Windows Runtime APIs from Win32 side.
I can't make up my mind what C++ GUI framework to use. It needs to be very fast in updating the constant data stream I am displaying.
5 projects | /r/cpp | 12 Oct 2021
Microsoft Opens Up Old Win32 APIs to C# and Rust
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2021

It only uses WinMD as the format for metadata input for code generation. The output for C# is still a bunch of P/Invoke declarations (using Roslyn source generators).
By the way, .NET is also retiring the ability to use WinMD directly via runtime projection, in favor of code generation: https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT

AvaloniaEdit

Posts with mentions or reviews of AvaloniaEdit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-20.

Is it a bad idea to start a UWP app in 2022?
14 projects | /r/dotnet | 20 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CsWinRT and AvaloniaEdit you can also consider the following projects:

Windows-universal-samples - API samples for the Universal Windows Platform.

ckeditor5 - Powerful rich text editor framework with a modular architecture, modern integrations, and features like collaborative editing.

cppwinrt - C++/WinRT

TinyMCE - The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular

WinUIEx - WinUI Extensions

tke - Advanced, modern code editor written in Tcl/Tk

ProjectReunion - The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.

Kuriimu - A general purpose game translation toolkit for authors of fan translations.

SylphyHornEx - 📺 Virtual desktop tools for Windows 10, now with reordering

WPFDarkTheme - A small WPF theme library, with 6 built in themes which are easily copy and pasteable, and the MainWindow shows off the themes

wpfui - WPF UI provides the Fluent experience in your known and loved WPF framework. Intuitive design, themes, navigation and new immersive controls. All natively and effortlessly.

Monaco Editor - A browser based code editor