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I'm about to start the development of a desktop .NET/C# application which has been designed with a focus on "modern UI" style. For example, it's very similar to the GitHub for Windows client.
I have a strong experience in the creation of .NET interfaces using Winforms, but now I'm wondering what's the most effective way to create buttons, panels and other controls with that particular "flat" style. As you know, the default style of a Winforms application is something like this.
Is there something, like a collection of "Modern controls", ready to be used on .NET Framework 4?
I hate to say but the answer mos likely is "not at all". WinForms was in maintenance way before Modern UI was released. I am not sure any commercial control collection has what you need - and the standard controls definitely do not.
Start upgrading to WPF. You are QUITE late with this, and it has a LOT of better things in critical areas (such as databinding which had quite brutal holes in WinForms).
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I have a C# WPF program that I’ve been working on for a while now and I need to move to Linux. I know that Moonlight is dead and Monodevelop has no future plans of implementing WPF functionality. Does anyone have any advice for the most painless way to rebuild my program in Linux? It’s a DnD character generator that uses a GUI with tab controls to separate the different parts. I only know C# but I’d learn another language if it was the best way.
The .NET Framework was planned for Platform independant, but that never realised. It grew too big to fully port.
.NET Core does not have that issue. It was cut down compared to the .NET Framework. It supports neither WPF nor Windows Forms, but it does support something similar: UWP. Wich is basically "WPF with App environment added". Since your programm propably needs no extensvie rights, UWP might be the way to go.
Edit: With .NET Core 3.0, thie Windows Forms Support will be added again. .NET Framework targetting WinForms Programms will need a conversion, but if you start from scratch it should just work.
Otherwise the common GUI to do cross platform anything is Xamarian. But Xamarian Apps are usually designed from the get go as such.
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Due to the nature of the keywords, I find it difficult to easily google this. I want to implement a "help" item on the menu bar that will launch some basic documentation for the user to read, after I have written it. Are there any standards or libraries I should be aware about before diving into this aspect? The program incorporating the "help" functionality will be a C# WPF Desktop application.
Example from MS Word :
I'm sure they don't reinvent the wheel every time they use the help function, and I don't want to either. Where can I look to find something open source that is similar to this functionality and maybe some general guidelines on how to write help for non-technical and technical users?
I think that following links should be useful for you.
Using F1 Help (CHM format) With WPF
how to create a chm help file for WPF Application? http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/ce323cdb-5f9c-49d0-910e-81d2bba51d4d/context-sensitive-help-in-wpf?forum=wpf
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I am looking for a good MVC / MVP framework for developing windows application in .net. It would be great if the framework supports Winform, Wpf and Metro style application. Though the requirement is little bizarre, but I really want to make the View part of the application very flexible, so that most of the code base can be reused with different presentation layers technology!
I have seen MVC# and AFAIK it supports winforms, but not wpf and metro style apps. On the other hand PureMVC supports wpf but not winforms.
Is there any such framework in the market? A opensource one will be preferable.
You can try Prism: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648465.aspx
Although it does not support WinForms, it DOES support WPF (for desktop apps), Silverlight and Windows Phone.
BTW, why do you need WinForms when you can just use WPF? If you want to reuse existing WinForms controls you can always use it within WPF:
http://www.keyvan.ms/host-windows-forms-controls-in-wpf
So you if you want you can have a WPF window/control container (which doesn't really matter) and have WinForms controls/logic inside...
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I need something to create 3D surface charts in ASP.Net. Could anyone recommend a 3rd party component set? I also do not want to use Giga Soft's, Nevron's, or ComponentOne's components. I am open to non-free solutions.
This is a good question.
I have performed a search/watch for my company few months ago and it is a cruel lack.
Personnaly I would not go for expensive third party solutions as they are seriously overpriced IMHO. Most of them do not give enough interactivity and are full of flourish while lacking the real features that one could expect from a decent 3D Surface.
I've ended up using ILNumerics which is fully open source (and even contributed a bit to the project). It's Winforms, but you could port it to ASP by tweaking a bit.
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I suggest Dundas Charting because of its stability and easy to use system
It provide different kinds of charts and work great with / without SQL Server Reporting Services, it has dynamic and static reports so that you user can build his report on the fly with your current reports.
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Following this question from last year. I am checking two open source ribbon controls:
Fluent
Odyssey
Do you have any experience (good or bad) with any of them? or perhaps know of another open source ribbon control?
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After using both of them, I gave up Odyssey cause it had a lot of bugs. I then switched to Fluent and I have only good words to say about it.
I've been trialling the WPF toolkit. Bear in mind - it's not open source per se - you don't get the source code. However, I believe it is free for use etc.
It's reasonably easy to use and has some reasonable commanding support. The documentation is not particularly in-depth, but it looks good - same as the ribbon used in Office 2007 etc. and has a few themes.
I'd say give it a look before spending money on a third party commercial ribbon control.
there is one included in the WPF toolkit dont know how good/bad it it. we use one that we bought.