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Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The future of .NET UI

79 mentions on Hacker News by 62 people: 11 stories, 68 comments · first 2014-09-08 · latest 2025-07-30

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  1. …[2], which supports .NET Core but is still in alpha. [1] https://github.com/PrismLibrary/Prism [2] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by LemurMadness · 2017-11-06 · in Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NET core and ASP.NET core
  2. those guys are making progress https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia Though I wish they didn't choose xaml/wpf way which is pretty much over engineered imho. React like api would be awesome.
    comment by serguzest · 2017-11-03 · in Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NET core and ASP.NET core
  3. …Avalonia seems like a straightforward reimplementation of WPF that is already usable. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia DotVVM is working on electron support, and I work with it already. I like it.…
    comment by nwah1 · 2017-10-12 · in KeePass 2.37 has been released
  4. …being Avalonia (IMO, at least). It's still in "alpha", although I heard a beta was not far off. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by mellinoe · 2017-08-30 · in Introducing .NET IL Linker
  5. …with any kind of app. I know that some folks working on one of the bigger UI frameworks, Avalonia ( https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia ) have toyed with it recently. One thing to keep in mind is that lots of these frameworks do…
    comment by mellinoe · 2017-08-30 · in Introducing .NET IL Linker
  6. …relevant: https://unop.uk/cross-platform-native-mobile-app-development... You could also look at https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia or https://github.com/picoe/Eto .
    comment by jsingleton · 2017-08-14 · in Announcing .NET Core 2.0
  7. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by Nelkins · 2017-08-14 · in Announcing .NET Core 2.0
  8. …but there are x-platform options like: 1) Eto.Forms ( https://github.com/picoe/Eto ) 2) Avalonia ( https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia )
    comment by YaraGreyjoy · 2017-06-27 · in KeePassXC 2.2.0 released with YubiKey and TOTP support
  9. Apparently this is a hot topic. The options I'm aware of are: https://github.com/picoe/Eto (OP - BSD) https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia (MIT) Currently only with a preview for Mac, Xamarin.Forms is roadmapped for desktop platforms "Q3…
    comment by j_s · 2017-05-24 · in Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework
  10. …they recently merged .Net core support [2]. You of course lose some native look and feel. 1 - https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia 2 - https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues/314#issuecomme...
    comment by kodablah · 2017-03-25 · in Cross platform GUIs and Nim macros
  11. Probably https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by Const-me · 2017-03-08 · in Announcing .NET Core Tools 1.0
  12. AvaloniaUI looks like a good choice. The demos shown in the README are impressive[1]. [1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by Nelkins · 2017-03-08 · in F# 4.1 and Visual F# Tools for Visual Studio 2017
  13. …https://github.com/picoe/Eto (Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS; Android, Windows phone: pre-alpha) https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia (Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS and Android; all alpha) For now I'm planning on using Eto since my initial focus…
    comment by j_s · 2016-12-14 · in Xamarin for All
  14. ….NET GUI framework. For anyone who wants this too, Avalonia looks like a good project to follow: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia It doesn't appear to support .NET Core yet, but last time I checked they expected to be able to…
    comment by rpeden · 2016-10-26 · in Announcing .NET Core 1.1 Preview 1
  15. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia Checkout this project for making WPF cross platform.
    comment by philliphaydon · 2016-10-17 · in .NET on Linux – bye, Windows 10
  16. Nice work. Looking forward to .NET Core support. I assume this is the relevant issue? https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues/314
    comment by jsingleton · 2016-07-10 · in Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework
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    Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework
    story by hitr · 2016-07-09 · 66 comments
  18. Personal plug: we're working on it! https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by grokys · 2016-07-05 · in Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#
  19. Could I suggest you take a look at my project, Perspex? https://github.com/Perspex/Perspex - it sounds like it ticks your boxes and we're always in need of contributors!
    comment by Gorkys · 2016-03-31 · in Mono Relicensed as MIT
  20. ….NET UI framework using XAML that can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iOS and Android. https://github.com/Perspex/Perspex
    comment by brudgers · 2016-03-25 · in Show HN: Port of Windows UWP Xaml Behaviors for Perspex Xaml
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    Perspex: A multi-platform .NET UI framework
    story by huragok · 2015-10-03 · 0 comments
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    Perspex a multi-platform .NET UI framework
    story by PretzelFisch · 2015-09-22 · 0 comments
  23. …For cross-platform desktop applications, I've been keeping an eye on Perspex: https://github.com/grokys/Perspex
    comment by jongalloway2 · 2015-02-10 · in Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
  24. Check out https://github.com/grokys/Perspex
    comment by GeorgeHahn · 2015-02-04 · in CoreCLR is now open source
  25. Just a quick plug then for my own project: https://github.com/grokys/Perspex/
    comment by grokys · 2015-02-03 · in CoreCLR is now open source
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    Perspex a next generation cross-platform WPF?
    story by NicoJuicy · 2014-12-18 · 0 comments
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    A Next Generation Cross-Platform WPF
    story by fekberg · 2014-12-10 · 1 comment
  28. Personal plug here: I've been tinkering with writing a GUI toolkit along the lines of WPF here: https://github.com/grokys/Perspex/ . It's obviously very early days and this is as much for my curiosity as to how things could be done…
    comment by grokys · 2014-10-15 · in Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF
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    Show HN: Perspex – a next generation WPF?
    story by grokys · 2014-09-08 · 0 comments