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0 pointslloydatkinson1y ago0 comments

Winforms and WPF are both very maintained and supported for .NET 8 on Windows, to clarify. Good cross platform desktop frameworks include Avalonia.

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kelnos1y ago

Are those frameworks available in .NET 8 on non-Windows platforms, though? If not, I think that's what the GP was getting at.

grokys1y ago

Not by Microsoft, but Avalonia has a commercial fork of WPF which runs on Linux and macOS:

https://avaloniaui.net/xpf

qingcharles1y ago

I think MS wants you to use this?

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/maui

I was pleased to see WinForms got some updates in .NET9. I really thought they'd left it. I still use it every day when I need to spin up a new tool to do some little task that needs a GUI.

lloydatkinsonOP1y ago

The only people wanting anyone to use MAUI are the MAUI team and even then only half heartedly.

Microsoft Build this year only discussed WinUI and WPF even.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/1cy2u6l/microsoft_h...

mark3361y ago

Good, I use MVC and it sucks.

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