Current state of GUI's

[motaito via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 00:11:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On 09/03/2015 01:51 PM, motaito wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, it's a shame that the mono framework does not support 
>> WPF. I think
>> WPF and MEF are the two most powerful features from .NET (for 
>> me anyway,
>> that may be subjective). And working in visual studio is 
>> really nice
>> too. I wish there was a cross platform IDE like that. I don't 
>> quite like
>> the text editor from eclipse, but I haven't used it in a 
>> while. Maybe I
>> need to give it another try.
>
> I thought Mono did support that. Like in GitExtentions which 
> runs fine on Linux (well, aside from frequent crashing). Or is 
> WPF different from "win forms"?

Afaik, WPF is not supported nor are there any plans to do so.
http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/wpf/

MEF may be supported, I haven't found any info. It's possible 
that it will be supported with with the .NET 5 framework coming 
up.