Is MoonlightDesktop suitable for porting wpf app to Linux?

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I understand Moonlight is no longer supported by Xamarin, but I have a WPF application written on Windows that I would like to port to Linux. I want to avoid rewriting the UI code. I came across a Xamarin project called MoonlightDesktop (http://www.mono-project.com/MoonlightDesktop) looks like what I need, but there's little discussion about it. Can I use this to port my app, if so, why has Xamarin not pushing it as one of their recommended cross platform UI libraries?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '13 at 13:05

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Moonlight is dead. So unfortunately this doesn't sound like a direction to take.

I don't know of any other cross-platform WPF-compatible toolkits either.

answered Mar 06 '13 at 13:05

Rolf Bjarne Kvinge

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The source is available and if it's dead it doesn't matter. Mono needs something like WPF really bad, even if it's a small subset of WPF's functionality. I was hoping this would be a cross platform story. – ATL_DEV Mar 08 '13 at 15:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 16 '13 at 06:18

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It appears that it can be done as described in this post:

http://walking-in-moonlight.blogspot.com/2011/05/run-wpf-applications-on-linux.html

answered Mar 16 '13 at 06:18

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Is MoonlightDesktop suitable for porting wpf app to Linux?

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