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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

.net core is the future but Mono is still important for running legacy .net framework applications like ones that use WinForms or WPF. That's pretty much it. Anything new should go straight to .net core.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hm, WinForms and WPF with Wine you mean? Otherwise makes not much sense. Was WPF ever run in this combination!

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah yeah. Mono didn't support WPF, but Mono did support running WinForms apps natively on Linux without using Wine.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

The problem with WinForms is that at least serious 3rd party libraries do a lot of direct API calls I guess, hence Wine.