I want to make and Desktop Application for windows and mac

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I want to make and Desktop Application for windows and mac

Deepak Kumar 20

Hello team,

I want to make an desktop application for both windows and mac. Also this would be a background app basically which once users logins into acc, the app will keep running as a background process and keep syncing a local folder to a SFTP server. For reference, I want to tell that I want to make something like Box Sync Application which Box uses to sync ones local files to their Box acc.

Please suggest how can this be done in DotNet.

Jack J Jun 24,881 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-03-01T09:23:15.4166667+00:00

@Deepak Kumar, Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, if you want to make a app for windows and mac, I recommend that you could use MAUI app to do it. Using .NET MAUI, you can develop apps that can run on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared code-base. Please refer to the Microsoft Learning Build your first app to Get Started with MAUI.

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Jack J Jun 24,881 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-03-01T09:23:15.4166667+00:00

@Deepak Kumar, Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, if you want to make a app for windows and mac, I recommend that you could use MAUI app to do it. Using .NET MAUI, you can develop apps that can run on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared code-base. Please refer to the Microsoft Learning Build your first app to Get Started with MAUI.

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Alan Farias 755

To develop a desktop application that can run on both Windows and Mac, you can use the .NET Core framework. .NET Core is a cross-platform, open-source framework that supports building applications that can run on different operating systems.

For your requirements, you can create a console application or a Windows service (for Windows) and a launchd service (for Mac) to run in the background. You can use the SSH.NET library for .NET Core to connect to the SFTP server and synchronize the local folder.

Here are some general steps you can follow to create the application:

Install .NET Core SDK for both Windows and Mac.
Create a new console application or Windows service project (for Windows) and a launchd service (for Mac) in Visual Studio or VS Code.
Install the SSH.NET library using NuGet.
Implement the logic to connect to the SFTP server and synchronize the local folder. You can use the SftpClient class from SSH.NET to establish an SFTP connection and perform operations like uploading, downloading, and deleting files.
Add a login screen to your application to allow users to enter their credentials to access the SFTP server.
Deploy the application to both Windows and Mac platforms.

Note that there may be some platform-specific differences that you need to consider when developing the application. For example, the file system paths on Windows and Mac are different, so you may need to use platform-specific APIs to get the correct path.

Also, for running the application in the background, you will need to use platform-specific APIs like Windows Services or launchd services on Mac. You can find more information on how to create a background service for your application in the official .NET Core documentation.

Overall, creating a cross-platform desktop application using .NET Core is a feasible solution for your requirements.

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Deepak Kumar 20 Reputation points

2023-03-02T04:58:16.7333333+00:00

Hi @Allan Farias @Allan Farias
Thank you for your inputs. It really helped me in getting clear with many things. Can you please help me with how to add screen or GUI in Console application for users to login?
Deepak Kumar 20 Reputation points

2023-03-02T04:59:55.89+00:00

Hi,

Thank you for your inputs. It helped me a lot. can you please guide me on how to add GUI or login screen in my console application?

Alan Farias 755

Hello!

There are many ways to do what you need. They depend on the expected security level and degree of complexity.

I'll leave an example below, quite simple and not at all secure, just to give you an idea of where to start.

using System;

namespace ConsoleLoginApp
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Display login screen
            Console.WriteLine("Welcome to the Console Login App");
            Console.WriteLine("Please enter your username:");
            string username = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Please enter your password:");
            string password = Console.ReadLine();

            // Validate credentials
            if (username == "admin" && password == "password")
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Login successful!");
                // Continue with the rest of the application logic
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Invalid username or password. Please try again.");
                // Display login screen again or exit the application
            }
        }
    }
}

It is also possible to research, learn and implement something with the package "ConsoleGUI.WinForms" from NuGet. In addition to the possibility of starting to work with cryptography and other mechanisms. But that would make the whole thing a lot more complex.

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