Tichau / FileConverter

File Converter is a very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress files using the context menu in windows explorer.
https://file-converter.io/
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.NET port #400

Open Tichau opened 3 months ago

Tichau commented 3 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. In order to be able to migrate to other platform that Windows, this project need to migrate from .NET Framework to .NET.

Additional context The only dependency that is not compatible is Sharpshell (the port is still in progress https://github.com/dwmkerr/sharpshell/pull/331). There is two way of porting File Converter to .NET:

Microsoft seems to prefer not having managed extension so the real solution may be to rewrite the extension in C++. This may also with this issue: https://github.com/Tichau/FileConverter/issues/211

Porting File Converter to .NET will allow port like Linux or Max port: https://github.com/Tichau/FileConverter/discussions/370