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Sergej Matsypa
Sergej Matsypa

Reputation: 439

how to install and use Winforms in VSCode on Linux?

(.NET Core Version 3.0.103 (Commit: b7ef045669), Platform/OS: ubuntu linux 18.04-x64, Winforms branch version (date): Thu Mar 26 07:37:13 2020 -0700, VSCode 1.43.2)

I cloned current version of Winforms from Github, tried to use appropriate installation script (build.sh) but finally got only error message (I think it's a bug). Possibly someone was more succefull? (Even though Winforms Designer doesn't still work in VSCode on Linux as I got from documentation there should be possibility to create Windows Form Application templates from console, port existing application from .NET Framework to .NET Core and so on). So can anyone share your experience about this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5261

Answers (1)

Hayden
Hayden

Reputation: 2988

Winforms is currently a Windows-only technology in the .NET Core runtime. I haven't seen an instance of someone circumvening this limitation.

.NET Core (and in the future .NET 5 that is built on top of .NET Core) will be the future of .NET. We are committed to support .NET Framework for years to come, however it will not be receiving any new features, those will only be added to .NET Core (and eventually .NET 5). To improve Windows desktop stacks and enable .NET desktop developers to benefit from all the updates of the future, we brought Windows Forms and WPF to .NET Core. They will still remain Windows-only technologies because there are tightly coupled dependencies to Windows APIs. But .NET Core, besides being cross-platform, has many other features that can enhance desktop applications.

The Mono Project supports Winforms, which can be run on linux, however I'm unaware of how to develop Winforms via Mono on vscode.

Upvotes: 2

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