Top 23 C# GUI Projects
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Project mention: Avalonia UI framework for .NET now runs everywhere using webassembly target | reddit.com/r/csharp | 2021-11-29
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Project mention: WPF GUI that works like Bootstrap textbox design? | reddit.com/r/csharp | 2021-11-09
Maybe http://materialdesigninxaml.net/ has this
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MahApps.Metro
A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
I've been using MahApps.Metro[1] and MaterialDesignXAML[2]. Those two libraries have made me feel like sticking with WPF until I retire in 5 to 10 years. I'm constantly getting feedback from clients that the applications (boring business applications) look so modern. It's been a nice selling point as my niche is rewriting VBA/VB6 engineering software.
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Project mention: Dos-like: Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-10-08
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Project mention: Legacy Xamarin Native App, stick with Xamarin Native or change to Xamarin Forms / Maui? | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 2021-08-21
You asked a bunch of questions there, I will try to answer them separately. 1) I am a XN expert and have a ton of experience in it, and from my research, it’s extremely difficult to get an experienced xamarin native developer. Xamarin Native is amazing experience to have, but There’s literally NO WAY left for someone to train themselves in xamarin native and I wrote about that here https://blog.devgenius.io/usingxamarinuniversitytolearnmobiledevelopment-808b6dec3e8b?sk=1c196f32400196f14dff7359f8ee51c0 So yes, I highly recommend running away from using xamarin native apps. Companies are having such a hard time finding experienced devs at regular rates. So anything is better really. 2) As to what language to select, Cross Platform >> Swift/Kotlin, these are also specialized skills that are just as rare to find both of in one senior skilled developer. Microsoft is actually putting in a lot of effort into building out the new Maui platform which is a piece of cake for xamarin forms developers to learn. There’s several migration tools already built as well, and the advantage of using Xamarin for you would be that you can keep your ViewModel layer exactly the same, you just have to build your view layer (also pretty easy to do with hot reload). Finally, it is important to note that more than 50% of ALL new mobile app development is moving towards React Native. The ability to use typescript (TS) instead of JavaScript removed the biggest negative against RN. Also keep in mind there’s no easy way of migrating from Xamarin Native to Xamarin forms except for starting a Xamarin forms app from scratch because of This issue https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/8153
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UWP Community Toolkit
The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building UWP and .NET apps for Windows 10. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
See types like ObservableObject here for far-flung examples with all the bells and whistles you'd ever need.
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Project mention: What free WPF control libraries can you recommend? | reddit.com/r/csharp | 2021-03-28
Also checkout HandyControl
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Project mention: What is it about C# that you do NOT like compared to other languages? | reddit.com/r/csharp | 2021-11-24
Would like to give a shout-out to Eto.Forms here as well. A clean WinForms-esque API which seems like it'd be very suitable for quick CRUDdy line-of-business applications. I appreciate that it uses the native widgets of each platform (WPF for Windows, GTK# on Linux, native NS API interop on Mac.) 2.9k stars on GitHub too so it seems like it has some popularity.
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I did a quick search and found a WinForms and WPF example of Material Design libraries. It's got some of the same philosophies your examples seem to be looking for.
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https://github.com/fluentribbon/Fluent.Ribbon is another ribbon control for WPF
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Ooui
A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web
Project mention: Looking to build a web app, iOS, Android | reddit.com/r/xamarindevelopers | 2021-04-12You can write Xamarin for web using Ooui: praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web (github.com)
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Project mention: Added Support for Visual Studio Themes in My Docking Application! | reddit.com/r/csharp | 2021-09-04
It’s actually WinForms 😄. I’m using dockpanelsuite, DarkUI, and ScintillaNET. I forked the dockpanelsuite and DarkUI repos. My modifications to dockpanelsuite adds a docking manager and ability to use extra (non-default) theme files from a vstheme.gz format that the documentation specifies. I then extended DarkUI to accept ThemeBase objects and apply the necessary drawing/coloring styles to the controls.
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Project mention: Writing UI touch screen applications on Raspberry/Linux with C#? | reddit.com/r/csharp | 2021-11-19
You might try QML.Net. That's a Qt library for C#, which (in theory) should play nice with LXDE in Raspbian. In theory. YMMV.
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You might be interested in this: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/
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What comes to mind is something like this one: https://github.com/FlaUI/FlaUI I don't think it can do the "search image on screen" part. A smooth mouse movement is only a series of mouse teleports, so that should be coded relatively easy. If you really don't know where the image is on screen and it also does not have a id to search for then it will be a little harder I guess. Like making a screenshot and putting it into some image processing library? Probably there are easier solutions out there
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Project mention: I built a tool for testing GRPC services with .NET Core + WPF | reddit.com/r/dotnet | 2021-02-03
You can use AdonisUI to make your WPF app look like a Windows 10 app. I also copied the example code in order to switch at startup and at runtime between the Windows dark and light theme in App.xaml.cs. Example : https://github.com/maximilien-noal/RoleDDNG/blob/master/Role/App.xaml.cs
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FastColoredTextBox
Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting. The text editor component for .NET.
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Project mention: Anyone have a collection of HD Steins;Gate VN art? Been trying to find some for the longest time | reddit.com/r/steinsgate | 2021-11-23
You can extract all the art from the game files with something like SG-Unpack or GAR-Bro. Not sure if this is the art you mean though
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Project mention: Added Support for Visual Studio Themes in My Docking Application! | reddit.com/r/csharp | 2021-09-04
It’s actually WinForms 😄. I’m using dockpanelsuite, DarkUI, and ScintillaNET. I forked the dockpanelsuite and DarkUI repos. My modifications to dockpanelsuite adds a docking manager and ability to use extra (non-default) theme files from a vstheme.gz format that the documentation specifies. I then extended DarkUI to accept ThemeBase objects and apply the necessary drawing/coloring styles to the controls.
C# GUI related posts
- Avalonia UI framework for .NET now runs everywhere using webassembly target
- Show HN: Avalonia UI framework for .NET now runs everywhere using WebAssembly
- Avalonia UI framework for .NET now runs everywhere using webassembly target
- A C# app that has a system tray icon on Linux
- What is it about C# that you do NOT like compared to other languages?
- Linus Torvalds once said, "If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won."
- Anyone have a collection of HD Steins;Gate VN art? Been trying to find some for the longest time
Index
What are some of the best open-source GUI projects in C#? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avalonia | 12,412 |
| 2 | MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit | 11,522 |
| 3 | MahApps.Metro | 7,985 |
| 4 | Gui.cs | 5,815 |
| 5 | Xamarin.Forms | 5,461 |
| 6 | UWP Community Toolkit | 4,614 |
| 7 | HandyControl | 3,265 |
| 8 | Eto.Forms | 2,905 |
| 9 | MaterialSkin | 2,347 |
| 10 | Fluent.Ribbon | 1,875 |
| 11 | Dragablz | 1,751 |
| 12 | Ooui | 1,528 |
| 13 | DockPanelSuite | 1,431 |
| 14 | AvalonEdit | 1,282 |
| 15 | XWT | 1,274 |
| 16 | Neutronium | 1,250 |
| 17 | Qml.Net | 1,240 |
| 18 | ChocolateyGUI | 1,147 |
| 19 | FlaUI | 1,115 |
| 20 | AdonisUI | 1,049 |
| 21 | FastColoredTextBox | 1,006 |
| 22 | GARbro | 964 |
| 23 | ScintillaNET | 824 |
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