NET Core 3.0 has support of WPF which means it can be used for cross-platform applications too!īut the issue is it's only for. WPF: Uses GPU Rendering, It has a amazing designer, is fully customizable and ships with Windows itself, there is no need for any dependencies, Microsoft is using it in Windows over and over again.You should ship 60+ MB for a simple hello world app developed in HTML/CSS and if you choose Electron, it comes in 80+ MB. HTML/CSS: Needs heavy sized dependencies like chromium, etc.Winforms: Very well designed, still a hero, but it's a little bit old and uses GDI+.It has too many dependencies, also, it has poor component library and you need to buy third party libraries or you should create your components yourself.

QT Framework: It's not free if you need to use static linking.

Better than QT, Winforms, HTML/CSS, Here's why. It has the power of DirectX Renderer combined with HTML/CSS styling and it's open source! There are too many reasons which makes this little guy better than any other solution for Desktop Applications. When we talk about WPF, we talk about an easy-to-use, user-friendly & high performance framework created by Microsoft for. (You can Use Invoking & DllImport stuff :v) Background & Backstory NET programmer, just walk away, it's not yours. This article is for C++/QT programmers who want to use amazing features of WPF within their C++ code. I haven't written an article in a long long time, so, I'm here today with an awesome one.

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