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Might be something via chocolaty/winget too?
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Everyone here sugesting electron or wpf but really… Just look up Avalonia and be done with it. Not everything has to be browser based or made by Microsoft.
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Might be something via chocolaty/winget too?
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> every year I try to learn how to create an XCode basic app and it’s different.
https://ardour.org was first ported to then-OSX in 2006. Almost nothing in the codebase that relates specifically to now-macOS has changed in that time.
XCode is a tool, not a platform. Cocoa is the platform, and it changes very little and very infrequently.
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I found this to be useful, make a Win32 GUI in the old-school 90s way. It has the advantage that nothing has to be installed on the target PC except your application.
https://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/computing/win32-apps-with...
I used it to make an application that downloads files over a serial port from an OptiCon bar-code scanner:
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See here for instance, especially the section about .NET5/6:
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Here is a very good tutorial series for WPF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZxZswmC_BY&list=PLA8ZIAm2I0...
Source is: https://github.com/SingletonSean/reservoom
It walks you through the whole process of creating an MVVM app including publishing. I saw and read many tutorials but this one was just AWESOME.
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Neither WPF nor WinUI are using OS controls for most of their GUI. Their GUI is defined by styles and templates in various XAML files. You can make controls look however you like. Microsoft did a great job back then re-implementing UX of WinXP and Win7 on top of WPF, but unfortunately not the newer Windows versions.
Here’s a third-party project with styles and templates implementing GUI similar to Win10: https://github.com/Kinnara/ModernWpf Their approach seems correct, and the screenshots looking nice. I never needed that library BTW, my clients who need good GUI usually provide professionally-made design which is unrelated to Windows controls.
Also, here’s a relevant GitHub issue https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/5793 which currently says “.NET 7.0 milestone”, however the 7.0 is scheduled for November 2022, i.e. in about 1 year, and they may or may not deliver by then.
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Neither WPF nor WinUI are using OS controls for most of their GUI. Their GUI is defined by styles and templates in various XAML files. You can make controls look however you like. Microsoft did a great job back then re-implementing UX of WinXP and Win7 on top of WPF, but unfortunately not the newer Windows versions.
Here’s a third-party project with styles and templates implementing GUI similar to Win10: https://github.com/Kinnara/ModernWpf Their approach seems correct, and the screenshots looking nice. I never needed that library BTW, my clients who need good GUI usually provide professionally-made design which is unrelated to Windows controls.
Also, here’s a relevant GitHub issue https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/5793 which currently says “.NET 7.0 milestone”, however the 7.0 is scheduled for November 2022, i.e. in about 1 year, and they may or may not deliver by then.
