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Avalonia v11 (dev.to)

submitted 1 year ago by starman to c/dotnet

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[–] doorknob 4 points 1 year ago

We chose to stick with WPF at work some years ago due to developing for Windows systems exclusively. Seeing the development still going into Avalonia is making me feel a bit like the grass might be greener over there.

Does anyone have experience with app deployment in a form similar to ClickOnce deployment using it?

[–] Spyros 3 points 1 year ago

Oh boy, now I need to find a new excuse to procrastinate on the project I want to start using Avalonia.

[+] rmam 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] Spyros 6 points 1 year ago

Well, for starters, WinUI 3 is Windows only (correct me if I'm wrong), while Avalonia supports Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS and WebAssembly.

The cross-platform solution that Microsoft advocates for is MAUI, which doesn't support Linux. And it uses native controls, meaning you may encounter platform-specific bugs, while Avalonia renders the controls the same way everywhere using Skia (same approach with Flutter).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WinUI 3 is essentially boring. If you're seeing any avalonia content, it''s pretty much just community interest, because they have no marketing department that I know of. There's just avaloniaui_mike who makes the occasional reddit post about some cool new thing they implemented.