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Windows UI Library
WinUI: a modern UI framework with a rich set of controls and styles to build dynamic and high-performing Windows applications.
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wpfui
WPF UI provides the Fluent experience in your known and loved WPF framework. Intuitive design, themes, navigation and new immersive controls. All natively and effortlessly.
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.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
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Electron.NET
:electron: Build cross platform desktop apps with ASP.NET Core (Razor Pages, MVC, Blazor).
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AvaloniaVisualBasic6
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- Ask HN: Why don't browsers load websites directly in WASM?
- A Significant Sponsorship to Drive Our Open-Source Roadmap
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The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
Check out https://avaloniaui.net as well. It's basically a cross-platform reimplementation of WPF. It's not quite as simple as C#+WinForms or Lazarus+LCL because you don't get drag-and-drop UI designer, and you need to write markup by hand (albeit with live preview). But unlike HTML, it's actually designed for desktop UI apps from the get go, so it's much easier to write for anything non-trivial. And you can still write "quick and dirty" GUI code by directly connecting event handlers to buttons and updating values etc in it, ignoring data bindings and other more advanced facilities.
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Open Core and the .NET Foundation: Time for Some Introspection?
Avalonia left the .NET Foundation a year ago.
https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/14666
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Show HN: Meld RDP – A Fast, Portable Remote Desktop Manager (.rdp)
- It's built with https://avaloniaui.net/ so it may be possible to get it working on Linux, though I have little experience there.
Would love to hear any feedback, ideas, or feature suggestions!
Thanks for checking it out!
https://github.com/meld-cp/MeldRDP
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WASM Wayland Web (WWW)
> The web had this before briefly. Back in the 90s and 00s, some people just wanted to use Flash.
WebAssembly is different. WebAssembly brings every language to the web. Flash didn't.
WebAssembly can render to canvas and enable applications that compile to desktop, mobile, and the web. UI libraries like Avalonia do this: https://avaloniaui.net/
For example, here's C# implementation of Visual Basic 6 compiled to WebAssembly https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ and source https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6
And a Solitaire demo https://solitaire.xaml.live/ and source https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Solitaire
But WebAssembly applications can also manipulate the DOM like JavaScript. Example frameworks that do this:
- https://www.leptos.dev/
- https://dioxuslabs.com/
- https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...
DOM access goes via JavaScript glue code for now. Eventually WebAssembly will get direct DOM access.
You can decide if you're making more of an application or more of a webpage. If you're making more of an application then why not just render to canvas with WebAssembly? And if you're making more of a webpage then why not have WebAssembly manipulate the DOM instead of JavaScript?
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Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations
That's why I mentioned https://avaloniaui.net/ which does the part. WPF is not bad compared to everything happening in the web frameworks.
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Compiling Java into Native Binaries with Graal and Mill
I don't know why anyone even uses the GUI frameworks from Microsoft these days. WinForms is only good if you need to throw something together quick. Everything else should be Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net/). Cross platform and does support AOT.
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Why Tracebit is written in C#
MS UI has been a mess for years. They just can't pick a paradigm to run with apparently, so people just fall back to good ole' Winforms.
That being said, check out Avalonia: https://avaloniaui.net/ and https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
Cross-platform, open source, MVVM & reactive.
A breath of fresh air.
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Hands-On Graphics Without X11
Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net/) supports the Direct Rendering Manager on Linux for graphics without X11 or Wayland:
https://avaloniaui.net/blog/unleashing-net-on-embedded-linux
https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/guides/platforms/rpi/runnin...
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
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