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Top 23 C# Winform Projects
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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ReactiveUI
An advanced, composable, functional reactive model-view-viewmodel framework for all .NET platforms that is inspired by functional reactive programming. ReactiveUI allows you to abstract mutable state away from your user interfaces, express the idea around a feature in one readable place and improve the testability of your application.
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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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LiveCharts2
Simple, flexible, interactive & powerful charts, maps and gauges for .Net, LiveCharts2 can now practically run everywhere Maui, Uno Platform, Blazor-wasm, WPF, WinForms, Xamarin, Avalonia, WinUI, UWP.
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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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BizHawk
BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.
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TaskScheduler
Provides a .NET wrapper for the Windows Task Scheduler. It aggregates the multiple versions, provides an editor and allows for localization. (by dahall)
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TabularEditor
This is the code repository and issue tracker for Tabular Editor 2.X (free, open-source version). This repository is being maintained by Daniel Otykier.
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quick-picture-viewer
🖼️ Lightweight, versatile desktop image viewer for Windows. The best replacement for the default Windows photo viewer.
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NetSparkle
NetSparkle is a C# cross-platform software update framework for .NET developers compatible with .NET 4.6.2/.NET 6+, WinForms, WPF, and Avalonia; uses Ed25519 or DSA signatures! View basic usage here in the README or visit our website for code docs.
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The Fullscreen Chromium (cefsharp) based Web-Browser ignores optionally user input like Mouse clicks, and is optionally always in the foreground (Force-Top-Most), so it can be used for any situation.
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
ReactiveUI is based on Rx and very popular in the .Net world: https://www.reactiveui.net/.
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)
Project mention: Ask HN: Any way to write a simple desktop app anymore? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-22Windows Forms[0] is still alive and will never die, and very low overhead to start with, and works on new and shiny .NET 8.
If Linux or macOS, you can use AvaloniaUI[1] instead which is sufficiently advanced but assumes some prior knowledge.
[0] https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/main/docs/getting-st...
[1] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/get-started/
Project mention: AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-03But I think some of this stuff is already handled in Avalonia ecosystem like https://github.com/Mapsui/Mapsui, https://github.com/beto-rodriguez/LiveCharts2 and few others...
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.
BizHawk is a premier emulator for generating Tool Assisted Speedruns and written in C#.
https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk
Another thing you can do is use a Steam tag management system like Depressurizer to automatically tag games with their approximate HLTB time (eg. 1-5 hours could be a category, 6-10 hours could be another category), then on Steam Deck you can use the Tab Master plugin for Decky to show each HLTB categories as a separate tab. There are probably other ways to display the categories as well.
Project mention: How can a rich domain model be implemented in practice using EF Core? | /r/dotnet | 2023-06-28
If you want to try it out, the easiest option is to get Tabular Editor 2: https://github.com/TabularEditor/TabularEditor/releases/tag/2.18.1
Project mention: RibbonWinForms VS NOV-Examples-for-WinForms - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/RibbonWinForms | 2023-07-14
Along with some of the other comments, there is NetSparkle for C#-based apps: https://github.com/NetSparkleUpdater/NetSparkle (disclaimer: I am the primary maintainer of this repository).
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 Winform projects in C#? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | CefSharp | 9,677 |
| 2 | Gui.cs | 9,107 |
| 3 | ReactiveUI | 7,905 |
| 4 | ImageGlass | 6,646 |
| 5 | UWP Community Toolkit | 5,770 |
| 6 | winforms | 4,201 |
| 7 | LiveCharts2 | 3,820 |
| 8 | mpv.net | 2,952 |
| 9 | Open Live Writer | 2,447 |
| 10 | FlaUI | 2,092 |
| 11 | BizHawk | 2,002 |
| 12 | Depressurizer | 1,385 |
| 13 | CSLA .NET | 1,218 |
| 14 | TaskScheduler | 1,150 |
| 15 | try-convert | 1,136 |
| 16 | VirusTotalUploader | 1,054 |
| 17 | DarkUI | 823 |
| 18 | TabularEditor | 822 |
| 19 | Modern.Forms | 794 |
| 20 | RibbonWinForms | 727 |
| 21 | quick-picture-viewer | 611 |
| 22 | NetSparkle | 555 |
| 23 | Exceptionless | 549 |
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