Windows UI Library
CsWinRT
| Windows UI Library | CsWinRT | |
|---|---|---|
| 102 | 6 | |
| 6,037 | 501 | |
| 0.9% | 1.4% | |
| 7.7 | 7.6 | |
| 3 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| C++ | C# | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Windows UI Library
- WinUI 3 is now open source
- WinUI3 Source Available
- Can't publish WinUI 3 app
- Leaked Microsoft poll shows fewer employees have confidence in leadership
- Should I start migrating my Xamarin app to MAUI
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When are we going to have smooth animations ?
I wish that was true, but even the new stuff, like their new frameworks, performs poorly while their older frameworks perform really well. That's brand new code, with no legacy codebase to care for.
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WinUI Unpackaged --- What am I missing?
The reason why I don't recommend Winui is the million bugs it has. See the github issues page. All Microsoft ui stuff sucks currently. But if you use WPF why not FluentWPF
- Visual Studio UI will get redesigned
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For the past year and a half I've been working on Wintoys, an app that let's you experience Windows in your way and keep it fresh everyday while having everything you need in one place
Development for WinAppSdk and WinUI 3 is also very slow and Microsoft seems to not want to push it and invest more developers into it for some reason. They try to improve the framework, is just it's a small team. For example it was a headacke to apply the Mica backgrop and required unmanaged code, they made it simpler and reduced it to a line of code but it took months. I have 2 out of 7 issues fixed on WinAppSdk repository and 0 out of 8 issues fixed in the WinUI 3 repository (some of the older than a year). This are just my issues, there are many other opened by other developers. So yeah, it wasn't fun at all. PoweshellSDK had an issue with the Import-Module command and it wasn't fixed for more than a year and probably won't be ever fixed, but I'm glad I found a workaround, even more clean and more safe, otherwise I couldn't have added the posibility to uninstall and change Store apps.
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Build 23451 includes a better implementation of improved File Explorer tab dragging (you can drag tabs out to create a new window or drag between windows) - still a bit buggy but nice to see anyway!
Compared to UWP or WPF, WinUI 3 is somewhere between 100-200% slower and consumes 7-20 times as much RAM as the old frameworks (for certain operations).
CsWinRT
- Leaked Microsoft poll shows fewer employees have confidence in leadership
- Can I package a WinUI component as a nuget without WinRT limitations?
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Is it a bad idea to start a UWP app in 2022?
https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT (105)
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Bluetooth LE in .NET 6 WPF
You can try to make use of CsWinRT, to access Windows Runtime APIs from Win32 side.
- I can't make up my mind what C++ GUI framework to use. It needs to be very fast in updating the constant data stream I am displaying.
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Microsoft Opens Up Old Win32 APIs to C# and Rust
It only uses WinMD as the format for metadata input for code generation. The output for C# is still a bunch of P/Invoke declarations (using Roslyn source generators).
By the way, .NET is also retiring the ability to use WinMD directly via runtime projection, in favor of code generation: https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT
What are some alternatives?
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology
Windows-universal-samples - API samples for the Universal Windows Platform.
MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
cppwinrt - C++/WinRT
SecureUxTheme - 🎨 A secure boot compatible in-memory UxTheme patcher
WinUIEx - WinUI Extensions
WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
ProjectReunion - The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.
metroframework-modern-ui - My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.
SylphyHornEx - 📺 Virtual desktop tools for Windows 10, now with reordering
FlatLaf - FlatLaf - Swing Look and Feel (with Darcula/IntelliJ themes support)
wpfui - WPF UI provides the Fluent experience in your known and loved WPF framework. Intuitive design, themes, navigation and new immersive controls. All natively and effortlessly.