A collection of simple sample applications for various UI frameworks that consume a shared .NET Core library.
| Project | NetCore | Full .Net | legacy project* | Memory consumption 64bit | "32bit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetCoreLibrary | X | ||||
| Console | X | 2,6 MB | 2,6 MB | ||
| WPF_cs | X | 15,8 MB | 11,8 MB | ||
| WPF_xaml | X | X | 16,5 MB | 13,2 MB | |
| Windows Forms | X | X | 4,5 MB | 4,9 MB | |
| DevZH.UI | X | 3,5 MB | 3,6 MB | ||
| GTKSharp | X | X | 10,4 MB | - | |
| AspNetCore | X | - | - | ||
| Avalonia | (X) | X | X | 21,5 MB | 15,7 MB |
* legacy project: does not use the new .csproj format
Plain console application targetting .NET Core.
A WPF application using the new csproj format, targetting the full .NET Framework (Windows specific). This version only uses C# code to initialize all UI controls.
A WPF application using the default VisualStudip template for WPF. Requires the older, bigger csproj project, uses XAML.
A legacy Windows Forms application using the VisualStudio designer.
https://github.com/noliar/DevZH.UI
A simple binding (Experimental!!!) using .NET Core for https://github.com/andlabs/libui, which is an awesome native UI library for Unix, OSX and Windows
http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/ The project binds the gtk+ toolkit and assorted GNOME libraries, enabling fully native graphical Gnome application development using the Mono and .Net development frameworks.
Requires GTK+ to be installed on the machine, instructions here: https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php
This just launches a web server and uses a javascript callback. It's not exactly a UI framework, it requires a web browser to run.
https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia I used the official project template for VS2015, so this uses a legacy csproj project targetting the full .NET framework using xaml embedded resources. It is possible to run this on pure .NET Core, there are examples here: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/tree/master/samples/ControlCatalog.NetCore
I had to set the DataContext in Codebehind because I could not figure out how to make StaticResource or ResourceDictionary work at all.
Even the "Getting started" projects are huge, see: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/tree/master/GettingStarted/XamarinFormsSample/XamarinFormsSample There is no "Net Core" app runtime available at this point, you can consume .NET Standard libraries, but the end application will run on Mono or full .NET, using UWP or WinRT, or one of the Xamarin Platforms (e.g. Xamarin.Android)
https://github.com/ddobrev/QtSharp .NET Bindings for the well known cross platform UI library QT. Requires full .NET Framework or Mono, Requires QT to be installed on the machine.