Xamarin.Forms VS sdk

Compare Xamarin.Forms vs sdk and see what are their differences.

sdk

Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI (by dotnet)
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Xamarin.Forms sdk
27 113
5,629 2,512
-0.2% 1.8%
6.5 10.0
17 days ago 3 days ago
C# C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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Xamarin.Forms

Posts with mentions or reviews of Xamarin.Forms. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-18.

sdk

Posts with mentions or reviews of sdk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-06.
  • Programmatically elevate a .NET application on any platform
    2 projects | dev.to | 6 Feb 2024
    [DllImport("libc")] private static extern uint geteuid(); public bool IsCurrentProcessElevated() { if (RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows)) { // https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/blob/v6.0.100/src/Cli/dotnet/Installer/Windows/WindowsUtils.cs#L38 using var identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); var principal = new WindowsPrincipal(identity); return principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator); } // https://github.com/dotnet/maintenance-packages/blob/62823150914410d43a3fd9de246d882f2a21d5ef/src/Common/tests/TestUtilities/System/PlatformDetection.Unix.cs#L58 // 0 is the ID of the root user return geteuid() == 0; }
  • Swift was always going to be part of the OS
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2023
    > There's definitely things they tried to improve on that... weren't really improvements. The way "assemblies" are matched in .NET is much more sophisticated- the goal there was to try to kill DLL hell. It evolved into the Global Assembly Cache, which is sort of the Windows Registry of DLLs. Not a huge fan of those bits.

    The Global Assembly Cache did not make the jump to the modern .NET (Core). There was the thing called `dotnet store`, but it’s broken since .NET 6: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/24752

    The assembly redirection hell has also been greatly reduced there.

  • .NET Blazor
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2023
    I do the same.

    I have a small write-up here: https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2023/10/end-to-end-type-safety-wit...

    You get end-to-end type safety (even better once you connect it to EF Core since you get it all ways to your DB).

    With this setup with hot-reload (currently broken in .NET 8 [0]), productivity is really, really good. Like tRPC but with one of the most powerful ORMs out there right now.

    [0] https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/36918

  • .NET 8 – .NET Blog
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2023
  • LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
    26 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2023
    That's a twisted and wrong narrative

    Unity like refers to a Editor driven approach

    Unity became popular with its moonscript language (javascript like), they then ditched it to focus on C#, but what propelled unity to what it is today is the Editor driven approach, not c#, not DOTS

    They are forced to transpile C# to C++ via IL2CPP as a result to target consoles/mobiles

    C# is a disease when it comes to console/mobile support

    It's a substantial dependency, quite heavy

    And you are not free of unity like fuck ups, it's a microsoft language after all:

    https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/22247

    And let's not forget when they changed the license of their debugger overnight to prevent people from using it in their products (jetbrains for example)

    And them deprecating open source tooling to a proprietary/closed one for vscode (c# devkit)

    Let's be careful when we recommend evil as an alternative to evil ;)

  • Writing Python like it's Rust
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 May 2023
    Another difference you might be surprised by is that the .NET tooling by default collects various data from your system and sends it to Microsoft [1]. If you want to avoid this (and still want to use .NET) you'll have to make sure that the environment variable DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT is set in all contexts before touching anything.

    [1] https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145

  • .NET 8 is on the way! +10 Features that will blow your mind 🤯
    3 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2023
    SDK Pull Request
  • Disadvantages of using F# with Mono?
    2 projects | /r/fsharp | 7 May 2023
    Pretty sure the final file referenced here https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/8742 is the one I am thinking of.
  • Exploring .NET 8 Preview 3: The 7 Features You Need to Know
    2 projects | dev.to | 19 Apr 2023
    So, buckle up, because the .NET SDK has whipped up a spiffy new option to have an easier output path structure. Here’s the lowdown:
  • error NETSDK1194 Solution
    2 projects | /r/azuredevops | 14 Feb 2023
    yup - https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/30625

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Xamarin.Forms and sdk you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

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

Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET

metroframework-modern-ui - My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.

Fluent.Ribbon - WPF Ribbon control like in Office

WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.

VpnHood - Undetectable Fast Portable VPN

winforms - Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.

Modern UI for WPF - MUI - Modern UI for WPF

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.

AvalonEdit - The WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop