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all, I'm thinking of porting my application from VB.net to the C# based MONO project, so it can run on both Windows and Mac. However, I am in need of a Mac-friendly alternative to WPF. It has to have very similar functionality. QML (by QT) is not a viable option, as it costs far too much money for us.
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I have found AvaloniaUI (avaloniaui.net) to be a good cross-platform WPF alternative. There are some minor differences, but are easy to work eith if you know then IMO. @minecraftchest1 I agree. But once you commit to Avalonia you are effectively in it for the full run.
Miguel de Icaza recommends MonoMac as a substitute to WPF for Mac as stated here. As he explains there is no plan to implement WPF in mono. MonoMac is a work-in-progress. Some parts of the Cocoa APIs are not wrapped yet. You should start with the samples to get an idea of what is possible.
There is a lot of value in a cross platform XAML that looks the same on every platform, is compile type checked, has a visual editor in an IDE and based around the .NET or C# eco system. MS has at least given people a starting point if they have the resources to port it (which is far more than I expected to happen tbh).
Now that WPF is open source and under the .Net Foundation, it is not up to Microsoft only what the future of it should be. If the majority of the community wants it, we have to at least try. Seems like Microsoft still has a lot to learn how open source and communities work.
There is also https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia a multi-platform .NET UI framework inspired by WPF
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Miguel de Icaza recommends MonoMac as a substitute to WPF for Mac as stated here. As he explains there is no plan to implement WPF in mono.
MonoMac is a work-in-progress. Some parts of the Cocoa APIs are not wrapped yet. You should start with the samples to get an idea of what is possible.
You will have to build two different UI on top of a common engine, but that's generally a good separation of concerns.
There is also a possible common code base for UI with GTK#.
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