CsWinRT vs WinUIEx

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CsWinRT		WinUIEx
	Project
6	Mentions	1
496	Stars	540
2.0%	Growth	-
7.8	Activity	8.2
8 days ago	Latest Commit	14 days ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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

WinUIEx

Posts with mentions or reviews of WinUIEx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-23.

Another year another UI framework.. my open source animated desktop wallpaper software: Lively now uses - WPF, Winform and WinUI3!
3 projects | /r/csharp | 23 Mar 2022

What are some alternatives?

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

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

SettingsUI - Windows 11 settings page in WinUI 3 applications ported from Powertoys with some custom controls and styles

cppwinrt - C++/WinRT

Files - Building the best file manager for Windows

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.

LiveCharts2 - Simple, flexible, interactive & powerful charts, maps and gauges for .Net, LiveCharts2 can now practically run everywhere Maui, Uno Platform, Blazor-wasm, WPF, WinForms, Xamarin, Avalonia, WinUI, UWP.

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

MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.

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.

lively - Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers powered by WinUI 3.

32feet - Personal Area Networking for .NET. Open source and professionally supported

UWP Community Toolkit - The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.