Support for dotnet core?

[costincaraivan]

As the title says, is support for dotnet core planned?

[ghost]

And in addition what is about future of Xwt at all? not only in relationship with .Net Core... I am looking for .net / .net core cross-platform library to create UI... what is about Xwt vs Eto Forms? I cannot find information how Xwt will evolve... and about any benefits over Eto Forms. Can you give more information?

[al1b]

any plans for .Net Standard?

[harry-cpp]

what is about Xwt vs Eto Forms? I cannot find information how Xwt will evolve... and about any benefits over Eto Forms. Can you give more information?

Here is my experience:

• Eto.Forms Advantages
  • more platforms (Android, iOS, WinMetro... )
  • has toolbar
  • has VS and XS addins that allows preview for designing GUI
  • easy per platform style configurations for controls
  • proper window startup positioning with multiple monitors
• Eto.Forms Disadvantages
  • more buggy
  • horrible treeview, if you need adding / removing just one value the entire treeview needs refreshing
  • no drag & drop

Eto.Forms is based on WPF/WinForms, while Xwt is based on Gtk. That said I prefer the Xwt API since I am very good with Gtk, tho I mostly use Eto.Forms since it's more powerful.

[HinTak]

I'd also ask about tags and releases - when will any releases be tagged, and what's the target/criteria for that to happen?

[HinTak]

Eto.Forms was tagged 2.2.0 last december, 9 months ago; and has a number of 3.0 milestones on its issue list, etc.

[eltiare]

I'm trying to use this with dotnet core 2.0 (preview) on Mac, and am disappointed that I am not able to add the package via nuget. Is there planned support?

[tchadwick]

Bump ^ .NET Core support would be awesome!

[harry-cpp]

Eto.Forms has .net core support, just saying....

[tchadwick]

Really? It looks like it's using Mono, not .Net Core. Is there a different area I'm not seeing?

[eltiare]

There's confusion between .Net Standard and .Net Core since they're closely related. I'd gladly settle for .Net Standard.

[harry-cpp]

Descriptions for some nugets should get updated, but https://www.nuget.org/packages/Eto.Platform.Gtk/ uses .NET Standard 2.0.

There's confusion between .Net Standard and .Net Core since they're closely related. I'd gladly settle for .Net Standard and works from .NET Core.

• netstandard2.0 - replacement for PCL, can be used from both .NET Core apps and .NET Framework
• coreapp2.0 - just a target framework

[eltiare]

I still can't seem to be able to add this to a Cocoa MacOS app.

Error from nuget:

Attempting to gather dependency information for package 'Xwt.0.2.111' with respect to project 'Test', targeting 'Xamarin.Mac,Version=v2.0'
  GET https://api.nuget.org/v3/registration3-gz-semver2/xwt/index.json
  OK https://api.nuget.org/v3/registration3-gz-semver2/xwt/index.json 158ms
Total number of results gathered : 1
Gathering dependency information took 3.06 sec
Summary of time taken to gather dependencies per source :
https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json	-	170.76 ms
Attempting to resolve dependencies for package 'Xwt.0.2.111' with DependencyBehavior 'Lowest'
Resolving dependency information took 0 ms
Resolving actions to install package 'Xwt.0.2.111'
Resolved actions to install package 'Xwt.0.2.111'
Retrieving package 'Xwt 0.2.111' from 'nuget.org'.
For adding package 'Xwt.0.2.111' to project 'Test' that targets 'xamarinmac20'.
Install failed. Rolling back...
Package 'Xwt.0.2.111' does not exist in project 'Test'
Package 'Xwt.0.2.111' does not exist in folder '/Users/eltiare/Projects/Test/packages'
Executing nuget actions took 5.56 ms
Could not install package 'Xwt 0.2.111'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets 'Xamarin.Mac,Version=v2.0', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content files that are compatible with that framework. For more information, contact the package author.

[harry-cpp]

Eto Forms is not Xwt... https://github.com/picoe/Eto

Also I am talking about the gtk backend only (and all the core components).

[lytico]

i have ported

Xwt

to .net standard - see here:
https://github.com/limada/limada/tree/master/3rdParty/src/Mono.Xwt/Xwt

the problem is getting

Xwt.Gtk

to .net standard.
I started to adopt

https://github.com/GtkSharp/GtkSharp

for Xwt.Gtk, but failed until now.

So, if someone gets Xwt.Gtk with https://github.com/GtkSharp/GtkSharp as backend to run, we would have Xwt on .netstandard and .net core

[lytico]

got Xwt.Gtk3-Backend with https://github.com/GtkSharp/GtkSharp as backend compiling & running with some bugs
is someone else interested?
it seems not so hard to finish

[ShadowTeolog]

able to use it in .NET 5.0 project. It work somehow but with warning
Warning NU1701: Package 'Xwt.WPF 0.2.247' was restored using '.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1, .NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2, .NETFramework,Version=v4.7, .NETFramework,Version=v4.7.1, .NETFramework,Version=v4.7.2, .NETFramework,Version=v4.8' instead of the project target framework 'net5.0-windows7.0'. This package may not be fully compatible with your project.

[lytico]

if have a fork for .netstandard & GtkSharp here:
https://github.com/lytico/xwt/tree/lytico_gtksharp

and some new forks of the fork:
https://github.com/limada/xwt/tree/Limada_2010

[costincaraivan]

Ping 🙂 How does Xwt hold up against modern .NET frameworks?