Windows Forms
Welcome to the Desktop Guide for Windows Forms, a UI framework that creates rich desktop client apps for Windows. The Windows Forms development platform supports a broad set of app development features, including controls, graphics, data binding, and user input. Windows Forms features a drag-and-drop visual designer in Visual Studio to easily create Windows Forms apps. Windows Forms is a UI framework for building Windows desktop apps. It provides one of the most productive ways to create desktop apps based on the visual designer provided in Visual Studio. Functionality such as drag-and-drop placement of visual controls makes it easy to build desktop apps. With Windows Forms, you develop graphically rich apps that are easy to deploy, update, and work while offline or while connected to the internet. Windows Forms apps can access the local hardware and file system of the computer where the app is running.
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Uno Platform
Build pixel-perfect, single-codebase applications for Mobile, Web and Desktop using C#, XAML and .NET. The first C# & XAML, free and open-source platform for creating true single-source, multi-platform applications. Reuse 99% of the business logic and UI layer across native mobile, web, and desktop. Maintain pixel-perfect control over where pixels go while having a choice of developing platform-specific or custom look and feel of your application. Familiarity and richness of C# and XAML combined with productivity boosts of hot reload, hot restart, edit and continue and more. Use familiar editors like Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code or Rider. Free and paid support is available by both community and our team. Chats, tickets or even screen sharing!
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.NET MAUI
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a framework for building modern, multi-platform, natively compiled iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows apps using C# and XAML in a single codebase. .NET MAUI uses the latest, modern technologies for building native apps on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows abstracting them into one common framework built on .NET 6. Native apps look and feel like the operating system on which they belong by default and layouts are fully adapted to each device automatically with no additional code. Platform APIs are available directly from C# to access over 60 platform features from a single cross-platform API including access to things like isolated storage, sensors, geolocation, camera, and a whole lot more with no compromises.
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CodeRush
Try your first CodeRush feature right now and see instantly just how powerful it is. Refactoring for C#, Visual Basic, and XAML, with the fastest test .NET runner available, next generation debugging, and the most efficient coding experience on the planet. Quickly find symbols and files in your solution and easily navigate to code constructions related to the current context. CodeRush includes the Quick Navigation and Quick File Navigation features, which make it fast and easy to find symbols and open files. Using the Analyze Code Coverage feature, you can discover what parts of your solution are covered by unit tests, and find the at-risk parts of your application. The Code Coverage window shows percentage of statements covered by unit tests for each namespace, type, and member in your solution.
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