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Full source files for the free textbook "Introduction to Programming Using C#"
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Decide which GUI framework to use #1

Open dschilling opened 1 year ago

dschilling commented 1 year ago

The book uses GUI programming to introduce events and event handlers. While there are obvious choices in Java for GUI frameworks suitable for a college & high school computer science textbook, the GUI landscape for C# is... muddier. The framework chosen should be...

The official cross-platform GUI offering from Microsoft is MAUI, which would almost be a no-brainer... except it doesn't support Linux!! To be seriously used as a college textbook (and also in my home), compatibility with Linux is absolutely necessary.

Potential options are...

dschilling commented 1 year ago

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