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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by hprotagonist on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:08AM (#24753995)
dotnet core does not now and probably will never support WinForms or WPF (edit: in a cross platform way that tools like WINE can offer)

It’s a very nice tool, but the two dominant and old GUI frameworks for windows require win32 api for a bunch of stuff the last time i looked and there’s no getting away from it.

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by tester34 on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:13AM (#24754037)
"The Real" WPF maybe not, but when it comes to XAML based, then there's: https://avaloniaui.net/

it is "A cross platform XAML Framework for .NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono."

So that is in a realm of possibility.

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by solarkraft on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:05AM (#24755097)
The "supports" thing is the other way around: Of course .net core would support them on other platforms, but Winforms and WPF don't support other platforms than Windows (Winforms because it's tightly coupled to Win32 [AFAIK] and WPF because it's mostly built on DirectX [AFAIK]).

That said: (AFAIK) Both run on Wine in some versions.

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by akdor1154 on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:13AM (#24754031)
.NET 6 will include a cross platform UI library based on Mono's implementation of WinForms IIRC.
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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by giancarlostoro on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:33AM (#24754162)
MAUI is basically Microsoft consolidating Xamarin fully into .NET and might consolidate things from their own UI frameworks as well.
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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by UrsaMedius on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:18AM (#24754069)
.NET Core does support both WinForms and WPF, but only on Windows (with no plans for other OS). Maybe that's what you meant and I just misunderstood? Regardlessly it used to be the case that .NET Core didn't support those GUI frameworks even on Windows, so it's a bit confusing.
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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by hprotagonist on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:37AM (#24754193)
yes that’s right. i’ll edit.
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