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SpiderEye		Eto.Forms
	Project
3	Mentions	17
208	Stars	3,480
-	Growth	0.5%
10.0	Activity	8.9
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
C#	Language	C#
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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SpiderEye

Posts with mentions or reviews of SpiderEye. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-13.

Desktop UI with F# web frameworks?
9 projects | /r/fsharp | 13 Mar 2023

SpiderEye seems to be a more mature wrapper. It comes with an F# template but I'm not aware of existing F# examples like the one for Interstellar.
Best .NET framework that both Mac and windows developers can use to make a desktop GUI?
4 projects | /r/csharp | 15 Oct 2022

A similar framework of the idea I wrote above is SpiderEye. There are others, but this one is good. I haven't used it in a real app as I rolled my own with P/Invoke, but you can use it if you want: https://github.com/JBildstein/SpiderEye

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 SpiderEye and Eto.Forms you can also consider the following projects:

Avalonia.FuncUI - Develop cross-plattform GUI Applications using F# and Avalonia!

Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology

InterstellarFableHelloWorld - A sample Interstellar application with a UI built in Fable+Elmish+React

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

Modern.Forms - Cross-platform spiritual successor to Winforms for .NET 6+

Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin.Forms Official Home

Interstellar - Cross-platform desktop apps in F# using web tech - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Interstellar.Core/

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

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

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

Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.

maui-linux - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.