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. (by CommunityToolkit)
MahApps.Metro
A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort. (by MahApps)
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| UWP Community Toolkit | MahApps.Metro | |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 17 | |
| 5,770 | 9,122 | |
| 0.5% | 0.6% | |
| 2.0 | 7.2 | |
| 2 days ago | 14 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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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.
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.
UWP Community Toolkit
Posts with mentions or reviews of UWP Community Toolkit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-19.
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Hello everyone, I made a Windows 10/11 Multitool app with Winforms. I'm just gonna share some screenshots.
GitHub/WCT/Controls/DataGrid (source code for the control)
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How did you guys get your first C# job?
Started programming by writing some apps for Windows Phone later UWP during university. A few years ago I started collaborating a lot on GitHub to some Microsoft projects, like the Windows Community Toolkit. There I created a lot of new APIs and libraries, like all the new animation APIs and pipeline brush APIs, etc. I then also proposed adding some general .NET APIs to it, and that's how the MVVM Toolkit was born, along with other libraries which are now moved to the .NET Community Toolkit. Fast forward until about late 2020, and they pinged me saying the new Microsoft Store (which hadn't been announced yet back then) was using several of those new APIs I had written, so we started collaborating more so that I could add more functionality they needed. After that shipped, at some point there was a new opening to which I applied, and here I am in the Microsoft Store team and also leading the .NET Community Toolkit 🙂
- Is it possible to use Windows Community Toolkit with .net7 wpf application?
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Why is there a lack of cool repos?
https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit (now multiplateform)
- Come si contribuisce ad un progetto open source?
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Does anyone here have a long background with Java before switching/using C#? What caused you to switch and what do you miss about Java that C# doesn't have?
For instance, recently Chaochao opened a PR for the Windows Community Toolkit to open source the whole custom animation helpers he developed for the Store, which are used to implement the morphing animations you see when scrolling in a product page. You can see a GIF and the whole code here and in the linked PR.
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Where is the source for Microsoft.Toolkit.MVVM?
Specifically I am looking for AsyncRelayCommand.cs. All documentation points to CommunityToolkit repo but I can not find it there. Link to source repo from the Nuget package also points to CommunityToolkit. I am not looking for samples.
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Modern WCF: Running CoreWCF in a Linux App Service
The report itself is just markdown that is rendered with the Community Toolkit's MarkdownTextBlock.
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Improve C# code performance with Span<T>
That's interesting. It will need some documentation and to finish the renaming at some point, e.g. Span2D is in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit but as you say doesn't require Windows.
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Good C# Source Code
Windows Community Toolkit
MahApps.Metro
Posts with mentions or reviews of MahApps.Metro.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.
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Windows 8 style app (metro style app)
You can make a WPF application with VS2022 CE and then install this NuGet package: MahApps
- Any licensing free package for modern WPF look?
- WPF Good UI Framework and Controls
- Upgrading UI of existing WPF App
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WPF or WinForms
WPF. Controls are highly customizable. Also there are good UI libraries out there, I recommend MahApps.Metro. Also you should take a look at MVVM design pattern.
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GitLurker will change your day to day tasks
WPF .NET core 3.1 | Winook| Mahapps
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Current best choice of .NET library for dekstop.
Mahapps.Metro https://mahapps.com/
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Current best choice of .NET library for dekstop
WPF with https://github.com/MaterialDesignInXAML/MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit or https://github.com/MahApps/MahApps.Metro
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How to launch multiple Teams and use multiple organizational accounts at the same time.
MahApps
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What framework or library does the Microsoft Word ribbon use or the Photoshop Navbar?
I've used mahapps ribbon in the past -> https://mahapps.com/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing UWP Community Toolkit and MahApps.Metro you can also consider the following projects:
ReactiveUI - An advanced, composable, functional reactive model-view-viewmodel framework for all .NET platforms that is inspired by functional reactive programming. ReactiveUI allows you to abstract mutable state away from your user interfaces, express the idea around a feature in one readable place and improve the testability of your application.
MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit - Google's Material Design in XAML & WPF, for C# & VB.Net.
AvalonEdit - The WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.
ScintillaNET - A Windows Forms control, wrapper, and bindings for the Scintilla text editor.
Modern UI for WPF - MUI - Modern UI for WPF
metroframework-modern-ui - My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.
Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono
Fluent.Ribbon - WPF Ribbon control like in Office
Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin.Forms Official Home
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
UWP Community Toolkit vs ReactiveUI
MahApps.Metro vs MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit
UWP Community Toolkit vs AvalonEdit
MahApps.Metro vs Avalonia
UWP Community Toolkit vs ScintillaNET
MahApps.Metro vs Modern UI for WPF - MUI
UWP Community Toolkit vs Avalonia
MahApps.Metro vs metroframework-modern-ui
UWP Community Toolkit vs Gtk#
MahApps.Metro vs Fluent.Ribbon
UWP Community Toolkit vs Xamarin.Forms
MahApps.Metro vs Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)