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Top 23 C# GUI Projects
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Avalonia
Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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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.
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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 .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.
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SophiApp
:zap: The most powerful open source tweaker on GitHub for fine-tuning Windows 10 & Windows 11
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Ooui
A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web
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You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.
[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
You can make a WPF application with VS2022 CE and then install this NuGet package: MahApps
Project mention: Forget MAUI; Get TUI! - C#'s best cross platform console UI toolkit ships first 2.0 alpha package (Terminal.Gui) | /r/csharp | 2023-06-07
Project mention: Hello everyone, I made a Windows 10/11 Multitool app with Winforms. I'm just gonna share some screenshots. | /r/csharp | 2023-05-19GitHub/WCT/Controls/DataGrid (source code for the control)
EDIT2: Yeah, https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/2751
Project mention: Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-02
An option that does not seem to have been mentioned yet is Eto.Forms: https://github.com/picoe/Eto
There's a pinned issue on the github page about the state of mpv.net development from January 2023 where the dev says that they started working on a cross-platform successor of mpv.net instead.
Project mention: Ask HN: Software for advanced filters for music playback? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-26
Project mention: Is there a way to download the Nekopara background pictures? | /r/NEKOPARAGAME | 2023-06-08
Project mention: How should i go about making a library to color code (syntax highlighting) a user has written? | /r/csharp | 2023-05-28For the most part it's best to just use something like AvalonEdit that already implements it for you. There's some documentation and if you dig a long time ago there was a book about how it was made (along with SharpDevelop) that may still be findable.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source GUI projects in C#? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avalonia | 23,672 |
| 2 | MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit | 14,616 |
| 3 | MahApps.Metro | 9,122 |
| 4 | Gui.cs | 9,107 |
| 5 | UWP Community Toolkit | 5,770 |
| 6 | HandyControl | 5,648 |
| 7 | Xamarin.Forms | 5,634 |
| 8 | SophiApp | 3,685 |
| 9 | Eto.Forms | 3,480 |
| 10 | mpv.net | 2,952 |
| 11 | MaterialSkin | 2,816 |
| 12 | Fluent.Ribbon | 2,438 |
| 13 | SpleeterGui | 2,120 |
| 14 | GARbro | 2,092 |
| 15 | Dragablz | 2,092 |
| 16 | FlaUI | 2,092 |
| 17 | AvalonEdit | 1,761 |
| 18 | AdonisUI | 1,662 |
| 19 | DockPanelSuite | 1,651 |
| 20 | Ooui | 1,619 |
| 21 | ChocolateyGUI | 1,592 |
| 22 | Qml.Net | 1,362 |
| 23 | XWT | 1,351 |
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