A simple, direct, ultra-thin CLR library for high-performance Win32 Native Interop with automation, windowing, DirectX, OpenGL and Skia helpers.

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• Xamarin.Forms

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• UWP Community Toolkit

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• metroframework-modern-ui

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• DockPanelSuite

  8.0 6.2 L2 WinApi VS DockPanelSuite

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  7.8 8.6 L3 WinApi VS Fluent.Ribbon

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• HandyControl

  7.7 9.3 WinApi VS HandyControl

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• Ooui

  7.5 4.7 WinApi VS Ooui

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• XWT

  7.4 7.9 L3 WinApi VS XWT

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• FastColoredTextBox

  7.2 3.1 L1 WinApi VS FastColoredTextBox

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• AvalonEdit

  7.2 7.1 L3 WinApi VS AvalonEdit

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• Callisto

  5.2 0.0 L3 WinApi VS Callisto

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  5.2 8.8 WinApi VS AdonisUI

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• Empty Keys UI

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  1.4 0.0 L1 WinApi VS ObjectListView

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