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To clarify: you can't use Windows Forms directly with .NET Core on non-MS platforms - you nee to port them to Mono. I tried to use Mono several times, starting

To clarify: you can't use Windows Forms directly with .NET Core on non-MS platforms - you nee to port them to Mono. I tried to use Mono several times, starting from Ximian and Xamarin times, and I always encountered strange problems that were not present in the original applications. I hope they improved somewhat recently because the code produced back then was often unusable (e.g. huge leaks after a couple of hours of use.)

Gibbon1 6y ago
Be interesting to see what happens, MS is releasing.Net 5.0 That's supposed to be cross platform and supersedes all the other stuff.
- Multicomp 6y ago
  While the backends are unified, MS still do refuses to fix the UI framework. They instead have yet another version of the post WPF scrambled egg UI framework. AKA WinUI3. the native grumpy old people like me will continue to use Windows forms or WPF or MFC,ATL,Win32. The masochists will try to use the open-source silverlight replacement. Moonlight? The futurists will use Avalonia. Maybe SAFE stack MVU via Fable? The Microsoft contractors will use WinUI3. Vast majority of web developers today will use electron, as unfortunate as that is...
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    WinUI keeps being UWP, and by the way WPF is now officially in maintenance mode. Your Silverlight replacement would be OpenSilver. The cross platform toolkits would be MAUI (nee Xamarin) and Blazor. Electron is the new Active Desktop/XUL, its fashion phase will eventually fade away.
    - Aduket 6y ago
      > WPF is now officially in maintenance mode. Can you share the official source of this statement?
  - chaosharmonic 6y ago
    And the web nostalgists will target Ruffle.