Forge.Forms
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Features for next major version
- Remove dependency on Material Design in XAML and Mahapps.Metro. Create respective packages
Forge.Forms.Material
andForge.Forms.Metro
. This means thatShow.Dialog
andShow.Window
and other utilities won't be part of the core library. - Target .NET Core 3 WPF - no idea yet how this will work.
- Remove humanizer dependency - handle sentence parser manually.
- Create abstract Form DOM. This dom can be serialized to XML, XAML, Classes, and custom visitors. This dom can be built from XML, Classes, fluent API. Currently
FormElement
is too brittle for that. - First class XML parser - generalize FormBuilder.
- Make it easier to attach custom controls - placeholders, data templates and data template selectors, return FrameworkElements directly.
- Better support for plugins.
- First class collections support - easy and intuitive API with in-depth customization.
- Nested forms support.
Other suggestions are welcome.
.NET Core 3 port available at https://github.com/WPF-Forge/Forge.Forms/tree/net3
Is it possible to reference .NET framework dependencies (for example NuGet) from a .NET core 3 WPF app?
Yup, it uses wichever version is available for .NET 4.6.1 or beyond, just like .NET Core. Except for some specific cases, such as System.Drawings
That certainly makes migration easier. We will see how it plays out once it's released. By then we will probably get rid of all dependencies from core library anyway.