Top 23 C# Winform Projects

• CefSharp

  22 9,705 8.5 C#

  .NET (WPF and Windows Forms) bindings for the Chromium Embedded Framework

  

Project mention: Head-up-Display Stream Deck Plugin | /r/u_pariswhitney | 2023-06-23

The Fullscreen Chromium (cefsharp) based Web-Browser ignores optionally user input like Mouse clicks, and is optionally always in the foreground (Force-Top-Most), so it can be used for any situation.

• Gui.cs

  60 9,241 9.2 C#

  Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET

  

Project mention: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-06

As someone who writes software for moderately boring business operations, I've been wondering making terminal-based apps with lots of keyboard shortcuts would lead to a more productive end user than writing a web app.

I've been looking at https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui but haven't tried it yet.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ReactiveUI

  19 7,926 9.0 C#

  An advanced, composable, functional reactive model-view-viewmodel framework for all .NET platforms that is inspired by functional reactive programming. ReactiveUI allows you to abstract mutable state away from your user interfaces, express the idea around a feature in one readable place and improve the testability of your application.

  

Project mention: Understanding DynamicData in .NET: Reactive Data Management Made Easy | dev.to | 2024-04-30

ReactiveUI Official Website: For information on ReactiveUI, which closely integrates with DynamicData, visit the official website. This site offers extensive documentation and tutorials for both ReactiveUI and DynamicData. ReactiveUI.

• ImageGlass

  104 6,818 9.7 C#

  🏞 A lightweight, versatile image viewer

Project mention: ImageGlass – A lightweight, versatile image viewer for Windows | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-28

• UWP Community Toolkit

  20 5,797 2.0 C#

  The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.

  

• winforms

  25 4,257 9.9 C#

  Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.

  

Project mention: Ask HN: Any way to write a simple desktop app anymore? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-22

Windows Forms[0] is still alive and will never die, and very low overhead to start with, and works on new and shiny .NET 8.

If Linux or macOS, you can use AvaloniaUI[1] instead which is sufficiently advanced but assumes some prior knowledge.

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/main/docs/getting-st...

[1] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/get-started/

• LiveCharts2

  12 4,012 9.4 C#

  Simple, flexible, interactive & powerful charts, maps and gauges for .Net, LiveCharts2 can now practically run everywhere Maui, Uno Platform, Blazor-wasm, WPF, WinForms, Xamarin, Avalonia, WinUI, UWP.

Project mention: AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-03

But I think some of this stuff is already handled in Avalonia ecosystem like https://github.com/Mapsui/Mapsui, https://github.com/beto-rodriguez/LiveCharts2 and few others...

• SaaSHub

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• mpv.net

  18 3,054 8.7 C#

  🎞 mpv.net is a media player for Windows with a modern GUI.

  

Project mention: what is the best still maintained front end for mpv? | /r/mpv | 2023-07-10

There's a pinned issue on the github page about the state of mpv.net development from January 2023 where the dev says that they started working on a cross-platform successor of mpv.net instead.

• Open Live Writer

  1 2,448 0.0 C#

  An open source fork of Windows Live Writer

  

• FlaUI

  11 2,126 3.0 C#

  UI automation library for .Net

  

Project mention: Automated testing WPF app | /r/csharp | 2023-12-09

• BizHawk

  37 2,032 9.8 C#

  BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.

  

Project mention: RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-30

BizHawk is a premier emulator for generating Tool Assisted Speedruns and written in C#.

https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk

• Depressurizer

  29 1,389 1.9 C#

  A Steam library categorizing tool.

  

Project mention: I wrote an app for myself to filter my library by HLTB | /r/SteamDeck | 2023-12-11

Another thing you can do is use a Steam tag management system like Depressurizer to automatically tag games with their approximate HLTB time (eg. 1-5 hours could be a category, 6-10 hours could be another category), then on Steam Deck you can use the Tab Master plugin for Decky to show each HLTB categories as a separate tab. There are probably other ways to display the categories as well.

• CSLA .NET

  6 1,226 9.7 C#

  A home for your business logic in any .NET application.

  

Project mention: How can a rich domain model be implemented in practice using EF Core? | /r/dotnet | 2023-06-28

• TaskScheduler

  1 1,162 6.1 C#

  Provides a .NET wrapper for the Windows Task Scheduler. It aggregates the multiple versions, provides an editor and allows for localization. (by dahall)

• try-convert

  13 1,142 0.0 C#

  Discontinued Helping .NET developers port their projects to .NET Core!

  

• VirusTotalUploader

  8 1,081 3.2 C#

  C# Open-Source Winforms application for uploading files to VirusTotal

• TabularEditor

  16 828 8.5 C#

  This is the code repository and issue tracker for Tabular Editor 2.X (free, open-source version). This repository is being maintained by Daniel Otykier.

  

• DarkUI

  2 823 0.0 C#

  Dark themed control and docking library for .NET WinForms.

• Modern.Forms

  10 801 5.5 C#

  Cross-platform spiritual successor to Winforms for .NET 6+

  

• RibbonWinForms

  2 734 0.0 C#

  An Office Ribbon Control for .NET WinForms

  

Project mention: RibbonWinForms VS NOV-Examples-for-WinForms - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/RibbonWinForms | 2023-07-14

• quick-picture-viewer

  1 622 6.4 C#

  🖼️ Lightweight, versatile desktop image viewer for Windows. The best replacement for the default Windows photo viewer.

  

• NetSparkle

  6 572 8.9 C#

  NetSparkle is a C# cross-platform software update framework for .NET developers compatible with .NET 4.6.2/.NET 6+, WinForms, WPF, and Avalonia; uses Ed25519 or DSA signatures! View basic usage here in the README or visit our website for code docs.

  

Project mention: Sparkle: A software update framework for macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-13

Along with some of the other comments, there is NetSparkle for C#-based apps: https://github.com/NetSparkleUpdater/NetSparkle (disclaimer: I am the primary maintainer of this repository).

• Exceptionless

  0 551 6.7 C#

  Exceptionless clients for the .NET platform

  

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