Insight.Database vs Eto.Forms

Insight.Database

Fast, lightweight .NET micro-ORM (by jonwagner)

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Eto.Forms

Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET (by picoe)

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Insight.Database		Eto.Forms
	Project
1	Mentions	17
844	Stars	3,472
-	Growth	0.5%
0.0	Activity	8.8
9 days ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License (From version 6.X.X and above)	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Insight.Database

Posts with mentions or reviews of Insight.Database. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-10.

What your hidden nuget gems ?
32 projects | /r/dotnet | 10 Mar 2023

Eto.Forms

Posts with mentions or reviews of Eto.Forms. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.

Cross-platform desktop applications
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 27 Jun 2023

An option that does not seem to have been mentioned yet is Eto.Forms: https://github.com/picoe/Eto
AM2RLauncher Flatpak - GNOME Platform 42 is end of life
2 projects | /r/AM2R | 29 Mar 2023

And the above is caused by https://github.com/picoe/Eto/issues/2361
What your hidden nuget gems ?
32 projects | /r/dotnet | 10 Mar 2023

Eto Forms - Simple cross-platform UI toolkit using native components, also for F# - https://github.com/picoe/Eto
Is it possible to make desktop app gui's with just C#?
4 projects | /r/csharp | 6 Dec 2022

Yes, you can use Eto.Forms. There is also Windows Forms (with WYSIWYG editor).
What GUI should I use for a Windows app?
3 projects | /r/csharp | 2 Nov 2022
Best .NET framework that both Mac and windows developers can use to make a desktop GUI?
4 projects | /r/csharp | 15 Oct 2022

Check out Eto Forms
How do you format applications using UI engines like Eto
2 projects | /r/csharp | 28 Sep 2022

Look at the Wiki: Containers
Windows Central: "Microsoft to merge Surface Pro X ARM and Surface Pro 9 Intel versions under one product line"
8 projects | /r/hardware | 31 Aug 2022

To move on to GUI dev, there's the Qt Framework, Eto.forms for C#; Rust has the ImGui wrapper for the C++ Dear ImGui library.
Cross platform gui frameworks that aren't xaml-based?
14 projects | /r/dotnet | 29 Jan 2022
So i rewrote WinUI to WPF
6 projects | /r/csharp | 1 Dec 2021

I've been using Eto Myself

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Insight.Database and Eto.Forms you can also consider the following projects:

SqlKata Query Builder - SQL query builder, written in c#, helps you build complex queries easily, supports SqlServer, MySql, PostgreSql, Oracle, Sqlite and Firebird

Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

Apache Ignite - Apache Ignite

XWT - A cross-platform UI toolkit for creating desktop applications with .NET and Mono

LiteDB - LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file

Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin.Forms Official Home

Realm Xamarin - Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & ORMs

Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono

Db4o-gpl - new Db4o GPL Source Code for Java7+ & .netstardard2.0 Android Xamarin..., the best database project to help you to learn how to make databases

ScintillaNET - A Windows Forms control, wrapper, and bindings for the Scintilla text editor.

BrightstarDb - This is the core development repository for BrightstarDB.

MaterialSkin - Theming .NET WinForms, C# or VB.Net, to Google's Material Design Principles.