MoonDesk / MoonBase - (c)2011 Ian Norton

MoonDesk is a small set of wrapper libraries to make it easier to write GUI applications that use silverlight controls that will run on linux as desktop applications. With a little care and some projects that share source files you can make a WPF and Moonlight version of your program (see the included hello example)

Using MoonBase

Using MoonBase you can develop apps that make use of the silverlight controls, xaml and the MVVM pattern (and all the databinding goodness that comes with it)

using Moonlight.Gtk;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using Mono.MoonDesk;

public class MyGui {
 public static void Main( int argc, char[] argv ){
  Gtk.Application.Init();
  MoonBase.Init();

  AWindow win = new AWindow();
  ViewLoader loader = new ViewLoader( win.Host );
  
  // load from a xaml resource file and create your view model at the same time
  VVM foo = loader.LoadViewViewModel<MyViewModelClass>("MyXamlAssembly;MyNamespace/Views/MyView.xaml");
  
  win.Content = foo.View;

  Gtk.Application.Run();
  return 0;
 }
}

MoonDesk alone isn't enough to build a cross-platform xaml based app but should help along the way.

Examples

hello

A simple form with a handful of views and view models, shows a simple command binding that increments a value in the view model. Also shows binding other controls into containers using ContentControl ( rather like frame src= in html )

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