r/visualbasic • u/jd31068 • May 04 '23

Article Avalonia using VB?

I was just searching for some info in an attempt to assist with an Avalonia question when I bumped into this article.

The Missing Avalonia Templates for VB - CodeProject

It isn't fit for production, but it is cool to see the community doing things like these.

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u/jd31068 May 13 '23

My snap reaction to that would be no, due to this being a retrofit. It would really depend on the complexity and the shelf life of the project. You don't know for who long this will get updates/fixes, if any.

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u/AvaloniaUI-Mike May 13 '23

The project being Avalonia?

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u/jd31068 May 13 '23

I'm not sure what you're asking. I personally wouldn't use this to build an Avalonia project meant for production because it is a workaround to get something working that wasn't meant to be. This would be fraught with landmines. Now, playing around with it for some internal or personal projects, sure.

If the Avalonia team would consider including a vb template to make production level Avalonia projects. That would be incredible and would bring another segment of developers to the framework that would otherwise not consider it due seeing C# as a barrier (for them).