Is WPF cross platform now

[mhdshameel]

For a development requirement, I came back to WPF after 4 years and find a lot of confusing changes and technological transitions. I used .NET Framework 3.5 earlier and now wish to pick on the latest technology available for WPF.

This announcement announces the successful porting of WPF to the .NET core.
From this article, I came to know that .NET core is built primarily keeping cross-platform in mind. And I tried building a sample WPF project and Visual Studio recommends me to go with .NET Core 3.1 as shown below.

If .NET Core is cross-platform, then is WPF cross-platform now? Doesn't WPF abbreviates to Windows Presentation Foundation, what is the motivation behind porting it into a cross platform ready framework.

[miloush]

WPF is not cross-platform. .NET Core (now .NET) has platform specific targets and WPF is using those. You might need to get newer templates/SDK/VS, .NET 6 is the newest one with long-term support and .NET 7 was released a few days ago. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/microsoft-net-and-net-core.

[lindexi]

How about MAUI ?

[saint4eva]

Maui is cross platform - it runs on Windows, Android, iOS, MacOS, Tizen

[greatawesome]

Missing Linux. This is a problem, because embedded Linux is the 2nd most important target for me outside of Windows. It is also a target that all of the other .NET cross platform toolkits support. MAUI is the outlier.

[saint4eva]

when the demand for Linux really increases, the team will tackle it.

[greatawesome]

There is an option to build cross platform WPF applications now: https://avaloniaui.net/XPF

It requires a commercial license to use.

[saint4eva]

when other options are open source?