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Is there an ETA for using .NET Core?

by nwah1 9y ago

kevindqc 9y ago
Are they planning on using .NET Core? With no UI?
- nwah1 9y ago
  I assume there's plenty of options... Qt or gtk bindings, electron, etc Looks like Xamarin is building full cross-platform support via XAML https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ Avalonia seems like a straightforward reimplementation of WPF that is already usable. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia DotVVM is working on electron support, and I work with it already. I like it. https://github.com/riganti/dotvvm-electron https://github.com/riganti/dotvvm-electron
- nwah1 9y ago
  Making it into a .net standard library would make it more usable. Could more easily embed it into other apps, or hook up various front-ends, and they could keep their existing front-end and just have it link to the new library.
kronos29296 9y ago
.NET Core is for cli or server software primarily. Not for gui apps. So probably not. They'll continue with Mono on linux I think.
- eberkund 9y ago
  UWP is .NET Core isn't it?
  - mintplant 9y ago
    No, UWP is not part of .NET Core.
    - nwah1 9y ago
      The news this week was that it works with .net standard 2.0 but I assume only on windows. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/10/10/announcing-uwp-support-for-net-standard-2-0/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/10/10/announcin... If keepass were a .net standard library, you could have different front-ends for various platforms. Making the front-end crossplatform is a good goal too. I'm sure you could use bindings to Qt or gtk. There's various native crossplatform front-ends in the works too. See my comments below.
  - WorldMaker 9y ago
    The .NET stack inside UWP is .NET Core (for the most part), but the UI stack of UWP is WinRT controls [you can read that as modern COM controls] implemented mostly in C/C++ and directly a part of Windows. So .NET Core doesn't benefit from UWP UI library, but UWP typically benefits from .NET Core upgrades.
    - eberkund 9y ago
      Thanks, that was a good explanation

Is there an ETA for using .NET Core?

by nwah1 9y ago

Is there an ETA for using .NET Core?

kevindqc 9y ago

Are they planning on using .NET Core? With no UI?

nwah1 9y ago
I assume there's plenty of options... Qt or gtk bindings, electron, etc Looks like Xamarin is building full cross-platform support via XAML https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ Avalonia seems like a straightforward reimplementation of WPF that is already usable. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia DotVVM is working on electron support, and I work with it already. I like it. https://github.com/riganti/dotvvm-electron https://github.com/riganti/dotvvm-electron
nwah1 9y ago
Making it into a .net standard library would make it more usable. Could more easily embed it into other apps, or hook up various front-ends, and they could keep their existing front-end and just have it link to the new library.

kronos29296 9y ago

.NET Core is for cli or server software primarily. Not for gui apps. So probably not. They'll continue with Mono on linux I think.

eberkund 9y ago
UWP is .NET Core isn't it?
- mintplant 9y ago
  No, UWP is not part of .NET Core.
  - nwah1 9y ago
    The news this week was that it works with .net standard 2.0 but I assume only on windows. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/10/10/announcing-uwp-support-for-net-standard-2-0/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/10/10/announcin... If keepass were a .net standard library, you could have different front-ends for various platforms. Making the front-end crossplatform is a good goal too. I'm sure you could use bindings to Qt or gtk. There's various native crossplatform front-ends in the works too. See my comments below.
- WorldMaker 9y ago
  The .NET stack inside UWP is .NET Core (for the most part), but the UI stack of UWP is WinRT controls [you can read that as modern COM controls] implemented mostly in C/C++ and directly a part of Windows. So .NET Core doesn't benefit from UWP UI library, but UWP typically benefits from .NET Core upgrades.
  - eberkund 9y ago
    Thanks, that was a good explanation