Windows UI Library
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| Windows UI Library | Engage | |
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| 102 | 3 | |
| 6,021 | 12 | |
| 1.4% | - | |
| 7.9 | 5.7 | |
| 14 days ago | about 1 year 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).
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I created a Native Windows client for using ChatGPT 🚀
Anyone can also feel free to contribute to my open-source project on GitHub. Tried sharing on this sub but it was removed.
- Teaching myself Windows app development, here's five days of progress.
What are some alternatives?
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.
SecureUxTheme - 🎨 A secure boot compatible in-memory UxTheme patcher
WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
metroframework-modern-ui - My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.
FlatLaf - FlatLaf - Swing Look and Feel (with Darcula/IntelliJ themes support)
DockPanelSuite - DockPanel Suite - The Visual Studio inspired docking library for .NET WinForms
Modern UI for WPF - MUI - Modern UI for WPF
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.
MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit - Google's Material Design in XAML & WPF, for C# & VB.Net.
WinUI-Gallery - This app demonstrates the controls available in WinUI and the Fluent Design System.
MaterialSkin - Theming .NET WinForms, C# or VB.Net, to Google's Material Design Principles.