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MS open sourced only a certain parts of dotNet. Important legacy parts like WinForms are closed source.
by frik 12y ago
MS open sourced only a certain parts of dotNet. Important legacy parts like WinForms are closed source.
- pistle 12y agoAs they should be. These aren't the UI abstractions you are looking for...
- will_hughes 12y agoIt's arguable whether Winforms, WPF, and other parts that are very heavily Windows dependant bits of the .NET Framework are that important for open source development. Even if they did open those, they're of very little use outside Windows platforms without a huge amount of work to remove how tightly they bind to the windows APIs. There's much better alternatives if you want to do UI cross platform (or just 'not windows').