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Top 23 C# Winform Projects
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Project mention: spectre.console VS Gui.cs - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/spectre.console | 2024-12-25
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Project mention: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-07
> The reliance on crusty old ass applications like those on Windows is actually kinda depressing.
macOS is the most consistent OS and Windows 11 the least [1]. With the exception of IrfanView I find neither of those apps particularly crusty though. There's https://imageglass.org
I personally moved from macOS to KDE Plasma and I'm a happy camper as long as I stay with Plasma/Qt apps.
[1] https://ntdev.blog/2021/02/06/state-of-the-windows-how-many-...
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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.
Project mention: WinUI.TableView VS UWP Community Toolkit - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/WinUI.TableView | 2024-09-04 -
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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Apps developed for the modern (open-source) version of .NET may be compiled to a native code (NativeAOT). Some time ago, I tried AOT on a simple WinForms project and it worked. Unfortunately, functions using COM APIs are not yet supported (as they rely on reflection). There is an ongoing effort to fix this problem: https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/issues/4649
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The website is called FlaUI, and they even have a GitHub repository that looks legit.
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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, highly-configurable software update framework with pre-built UI for .NET developers compatible with .NET 4.6.2/.NET 6+, WinForms, WPF, and Avalonia; uses Ed25519 signatures. View basic usage here in the README and try the samples for yourself.
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Project mention: Hello guys, I have developed an open-source project for automatic upgrades | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-05
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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 | 9,982 |
| 2 | Terminal.Gui | 9,935 |
| 3 | ImageGlass | 8,887 |
| 4 | ReactiveUI | 8,209 |
| 5 | UWP Community Toolkit | 5,946 |
| 6 | LiveCharts2 | 4,608 |
| 7 | winforms | 4,524 |
| 8 | mpv.net | 3,908 |
| 9 | R3 | 2,620 |
| 10 | Open Live Writer | 2,467 |
| 11 | FlaUI | 2,394 |
| 12 | BizHawk | 2,306 |
| 13 | Depressurizer | 1,448 |
| 14 | CSLA .NET | 1,293 |
| 15 | TaskScheduler | 1,244 |
| 16 | VirusTotalUploader | 1,240 |
| 17 | TabularEditor | 914 |
| 18 | Modern.Forms | 870 |
| 19 | DarkUI | 850 |
| 20 | RibbonWinForms | 786 |
| 21 | quick-picture-viewer | 737 |
| 22 | NetSparkle | 678 |
| 23 | GeneralUpdate | 604 |
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