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Will this allow you to make cross-platform Windows Forms applications?

• atonse 9y ago
  No. Windows Forms is not a part of the cross platform .NET Core.
• judah 9y ago
  Nope. Windows Forms is a UI technology tied to Windows itself.(It's implemented as wrapper over WndProc and Windows Common Controls.) Windows Forms is not cross platform, and VS for Mac doesn't change this. VS for Mac is intended to build cross platform web apps, console apps, and mobile apps with Xamarin.
  • holydude 9y ago
    So this Visual Studio for Mac is Xamarin studio repackaged as Visual Studio with tools and compiler/transpilers for .NET Core and the rest so you can do your usual stuff (in any other language) + apps on iOS/Mac/Android with C# with the Xamarin magic. Or ?
  • floatboth 9y ago
    Windows Forms is implemented in Mono. It's… buggy, but it works.
    • tmzt 9y ago
      Is that the version using winelib? I believe there is now native OSX support in wine in addition to x11drv. Could the Mono version be ported?
      • hexxington 9y ago
        No. The Winelib implementation fizzled over a decade ago. Mono's WinForms implementation is managed, invoking a cleanroom C libgdiplus.so/dlyib for GDI+ calls
• tghw 9y ago
  Not Windows Forms, no. But it is pretty easy to make cross platform .Net apps using Xamarin Mac. Business logic can share code, though UI likely needs its own code for each platform.
• camus2 9y ago
  No Windows Forms, No XAML Windows app, No Windows store apps. .Net Core might run on Mac, .Net Desktop certainly doesn't. Calling it Visual Studio is misleading.