How can I create a .Net 5 window without Xaml? Please, no legacy frameworks like Winforms or WPF. I would use UWP, except it has a couple of significant issues ... not easily distributable and not distributable generally. cannot disable Windows overlay such as Titlebar and Taskbar UWP is stuck on C# 7 The first two issues make UWP unsuitable for games and particular kinds of application interface design. Even when UWP and .Net 5 are made to be compatible, only one of these deal-breaking issues is going to be resolved.

.Net 5 Window

Gavin Williams 761

How can I create a .Net 5 window without Xaml?

Please, no legacy frameworks like Winforms or WPF. I would use UWP, except it has a couple of significant issues ...

not easily distributable and not distributable generally.
cannot disable Windows overlay such as Titlebar and Taskbar
UWP is stuck on C# 7

The first two issues make UWP unsuitable for games and particular kinds of application interface design. Even when UWP and .Net 5 are made to be compatible, only one of these deal-breaking issues is going to be resolved.

Rajanikant Hawaldar 91 Reputation points

2020-12-06T07:30:34.02+00:00

Winforms is without xaml, in wpf you need to write/edit xaml, at least you can use designer (but a lot of things is much easier to do in xaml code)
Gavin Williams 761 Reputation points

2020-12-06T07:46:19.087+00:00

I don't want Winforms (no legacy pls), I want the core .net 5 window so that I can create a swapchain and do my own rendering.

In the same way that UWP's CoreWindow can be rendered to (once it's ComObject is used to construct a swapchain)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.UI.Core.CoreWindow?view=winrt-19041

I'm not sure if MS just haven't gotten around to this stuff or if it's time-lined for .Net 6 or what.

Maybe the question is 'How can I create WinRT window using .Net 5?' I'm not sure, some of the API's seem to be confusingly distributed between different frameworks. There doesn't seem to be a strong concept of Window or Application in the new API's.
Jerry Cai-MSFT 986 Reputation points

2020-12-07T09:35:10.85+00:00

First, .net 5 doesn't support UWP for now
announcing-net-5-0

And then you said you want to build an create an app without Xaml? That could be console app, but only C++/CX or C++/winrt can create a console app and you mentioned that you use C#.

So in my opinion, your request can not be achieved for now.

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Castorix31 81,941 Reputation points

2020-12-06T06:21:29.313+00:00

Simply with Winforms :
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Gavin Williams 761 Reputation points

2020-12-06T09:10:15.047+00:00

For scenario's where I use a UI framework I use WinUI / UWP.Xaml.

Castorix31 81,941 Reputation points

2020-12-07T09:17:13.347+00:00

With .NET 5, Winforms or WPF are the usual ways for GUI
With .NET 6, MAUI (Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI
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