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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by snuxoll on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @09:23PM (#41375095)
.Net Core on Windows has support for loading assemblies that reference COM interfaces and the win32 API, along with other things that aren’t supported elsewhere like C++/CLI.

That’s why loading System.Windows.Forms still works, it’s not part of .Net 5+, but it can still load the assemblies on Windows (they still use GDI, etc under the hood).

Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by Kwpolska on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @11:00AM (#41380285)
System.Windows.Forms _is_ part of .NET 5+ — but only available on Windows.