awesome-avalonia VS steamtinkerlaunch

WPF and Xamarin dev here who wrote a new (not ported) codebase on Avalonia.

- Avalonia has a guide just for people like you and me [1].

- Avalonia's flavor of XAML has small divergences from WPF that will have you hitting their docs often. There are some nice quality-of-life improvements, for example you can bind a Button click handler directly to a method without ICommand. The major concepts are the same e.g. data binding, dependency properties.

- Coming from WPF, it's possible you've used MVVM and dependency injection. You'd be going against a strong cultural grain to not use them in Avalonia. But I would be surprised if your WinForms app is architected remotely similarly, so it may be a design challenge extracting coherent ViewModels and properties from the ball of mud that many WinForms apps become.

- For macOS, read up on notarization [2] and, if you're publishing to the Mac App Store, the review process.

- I recommend starting with example apps (look in the Showcase) or with the Avalonia template solution which just runs out of the box.

- The Avalonia team iterates quickly. Expect to upgrade NuGets frequently, and don't get too far behind. There was recently a big jump from version 10 to 11. Good for you for starting after that.

- Not Avalonia specifically but if you're not used to .NET Core check out #nullable enable. Can't live without it now, but was confusing at first.

- Be sure to check out all of the official and community libraries [3]. I bet my design big on `ReactiveUI` and it's gone well.

[1] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/get-started/wpf/

[2] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/deployment/macOS

[3] https://github.com/AvaloniaCommunity/awesome-avalonia

I hear you. We’ve a decent datagrid and a load of OSS components that you can find here.

You can see a lot here and, for example, here

You can find more 3rd party controls here for example : https://github.com/AvaloniaCommunity/awesome-avalonia

More about Avalonia production apps here.

You could use Avalonia. This is xaml crossplatform and will be better supported than wpf. You can get the templates for dotnet new Avalonia. It's xaml, fast templates and there is a designer op github, can't fidn it atm. Some examples

You probably mean SteamTinkerLaunch

I've tried all of the known methods, the one using bottles:https://github.com/thesupersonic16/HedgeModManager/wiki/Running-on-Linux-(Wine), the one using Steamtinkerlaunch: https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki/Hedge-Mod-Manager and the one that used to work but doesn't anymore:https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/updated-sonic-frontiers-steam-deck-modding-guide/ The bottles method worked a few weeks ago (although a lot of codes and mods didn't work) but doesn't seem to work anymore, the program doesn't seem to recognize the .yml configuration file provided in the guide anymore, I even tried installing the dependencies manually but the game (Sonic Frontiers) doesn't load the mod loader (the game launches but without mods), perhaps bottles doesn't use .yml files anymore ? The Steamtinkerlaunch method using Proton 7.0 also manages to install hedgemodmanager but once the mod loader is installed the game simply won't launch (I even tried providing mscore.dll but doesn't seem to make a difference). The method detailed on linuxgamingcentral.com used to work but now doesn't anymore, probably because steamtinkerlaunch now also tries to install .net 40 and .net 48. I get an error along the lines of "error, couldn't load mscore.dll to display the correct error message, please reinstall. Net". I'm losing my mind over this. Does anyone of you have hedgemodmanager working on Steam Deck ? If so how did you do it ?

Or maybe Steam Tinker launch (if using steam): https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch

This, right? This results in the following error:

Hey. I'm currently trying to get LiveSplit to run in the same Proton instance as a game (so I have the autosplitter available). I've managed to get that working by using SteamTinkerLaunch (https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki)

Click "Add Version", then install the latest SteamTinkerLaunch

Make sure to check the wiki on GitHub. It has a page for troubleshooting and the second entry sounds like your problem.

I recently had a nice discussion with the STL dev (steamtinkerlaunch#813). This might give you also a bit of insight.

There's steamtinkerlaunch for vortex/modorganizer there's also protontricks to mess around with each game proton prefix and etc. You'll have to Google these to get a better explanation but these are just the options I know of.