WinApi alternatives and related packages

Based on the "GUI" category

• MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit

  9.7 8.5 L4 WinApi VS MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit

  Toolkit for creating Material styled WPF apps

• MahApps.Metro

  9.7 9.0 L2 WinApi VS MahApps.Metro

  Toolkit for creating Metro styled WPF apps

• Avalonia

  9.6 9.8 L3 WinApi VS Avalonia

  A multi-platform .NET UI framework.

• Xamarin.Forms

  9.5 9.7 L3 WinApi VS Xamarin.Forms

  Build native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows from a single, shared C# codebase.

• UWP Community Toolkit

  9.2 9.8 L3 WinApi VS UWP Community Toolkit

  The UWP Community Toolkit is a collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building UWP apps for Windows 10.

• metroframework-modern-ui

  8.9 0.0 L2 WinApi VS metroframework-modern-ui

  My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.

• Modern UI for WPF - MUI

  8.7 0.0 WinApi VS Modern UI for WPF - MUI

  MUI

• MaterialSkin

  8.3 0.0 L2 WinApi VS MaterialSkin

  Theming .NET WinForms, C# or VB.Net, to Google's Material Design Principles.

• Eto.Forms

  8.0 8.8 L3 WinApi VS Eto.Forms

  Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET and Mono

• DockPanelSuite

  7.8 5.8 L2 WinApi VS DockPanelSuite

  The Visual Studio inspired docking library for .NET WinForms

• Fluent.Ribbon

  7.5 9.2 L3 WinApi VS Fluent.Ribbon

  Fluent Ribbon Control Suite is a library that implements an Office- and Windows 8-like Ribbon for WPF.

• XWT

  7.3 8.3 L3 WinApi VS XWT

  A cross-platform UI toolkit for creating desktop applications with .NET and Mono

• Dragablz

  7.2 0.0 L4 WinApi VS Dragablz

  Dragable, tearable WPF tab control (similar to Chrome) which supports layouts and is full themeable, including themese compatible with MahApps and Material Design.

• FastColoredTextBox

  6.9 3.1 L1 WinApi VS FastColoredTextBox

  Fast Colored TextBox is text editor component for .NET. Allows you to create custom text editor with syntax highlighting. It works well with small, medium, large and very-very large files.

• AvalonEdit

  6.7 3.4 L3 WinApi VS AvalonEdit

  The WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop

• Neutronium

  6.5 9.2 WinApi VS Neutronium

  Build .NET desktop applications using HTML, CSS, javascript and MVVM bindings such as with WPF.

• ScintillaNET

  6.0 2.9 L1 WinApi VS ScintillaNET

  Windows Forms control for the Scintilla text editor component (Scintilla is used by Notepad++)

• QtSharp

  5.3 0.0 WinApi VS QtSharp

  Mono/.NET Bindings for Qt

• Gtk#

  5.2 3.0 L2 WinApi VS Gtk#

  Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono

• Callisto

  5.1 0.0 L3 WinApi VS Callisto

  A control toolkit for Windows 8 XAML applications. Contains some UI controls to make it easier to create Windows UI style apps for the Windows Store in accordance with Windows UI guidelines.

• SciterSharp

  2.9 7.0 L3 WinApi VS SciterSharp

  Create .NET cross-platform desktop apps using not just HTML, but all features of Sciter engine: CSS3, SVG, scripting, AJAX, <video>... Sciter is free for commercial use

• Empty Keys UI

  2.0 0.0 L2 WinApi VS Empty Keys UI

  Multi-platform and multi-engine XAML based user interface library [Free][Proprietary]

• ObjectListView

  1.3 0.0 L1 WinApi VS ObjectListView

  ObjectListView is a C# wrapper around a .NET ListView. It makes the ListView much easier to use and teaches it some new tricks

• Office Ribbon

  - - WinApi VS Office Ribbon

  A library that implements MS Office Ribbon for WinForms.

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