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I saw CONSOLE and ASP profiles .NET Core profiles. Can .NET Core also be used to develop GUI apps?

• oblio 10y ago
  Not at this stage, if you don't want some sort of pre-beta 1-man project. Microsoft is not investing so it will have to be community managed.
  • philliphaydon 10y ago
    There is already a community driven WPF type library. I can't find it on my phone. It was posted on NH like 6 months ago.
    • Const-me 10y ago
      Probably https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
      • philliphaydon 10y ago
        That's the one!
• DaiPlusPlus 10y ago
  Through P/Invoke, sure. But WinForms, WPF, and UWP (and Silverlight, and XNA) are not part of .NET Core by-design. Though I assume someone will port Xamarin over, if they haven't done already. I'd love to see SDL support so OpenRA can have another build target.
  • tonyedgecombe 10y ago
    It would be nice to see Winforms and WPF pulled out into their own projects on top of .Net core. Both could do with some cross platform open source love.
    • DaiPlusPlus 10y ago
      WinForms is, unfortunately (in my opinion), a hack on top of Win32/hWnds, the fact that every Control wraps a top-level hWnd window is a source of performance issues. It needs a fundamental re-thinking... but Xamarin Forms is a better concept, it just needs a Win32 target.
      • tonyedgecombe 10y ago
        I thought Xamarin Forms was for phones?