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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 cros
by 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 agoSo 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 agoWindows Forms is implemented in Mono. It's… buggy, but it works.
- tmzt 9y agoIs 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 agoNo. The Winelib implementation fizzled over a decade ago. Mono's WinForms implementation is managed, invoking a cleanroom C libgdiplus.so/dlyib for GDI+ calls