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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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

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

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[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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

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

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