https://github.com/klausloeffelmann/communitytoolkit.winforms

Temp Repo for a planned approach to provide tools, template, components for WinForms around AI/LLMs/MVVM and LOB App modernization.
https://github.com/klausloeffelmann/communitytoolkit.winforms

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Temp Repo for a planned approach to provide tools, template, components for WinForms around AI/LLMs/MVVM and LOB App modernization.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/klausloeffelmann/communitytoolkit.winforms
• Owner: KlausLoeffelmann
• Created: 2024-09-08T00:10:43.000Z (4 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-18T19:57:00.000Z (2 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-18T20:33:19.195Z (2 days ago)
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• Size: 2.69 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# CommunityToolkit.WinForms

**WinForms specific Toolkit and Component collection for Modernizing and Enhancing WinForms Development and introduce AI and LLM features into WinForms LOB-Apps.**

## Key Objectives

### 1. Simplifying AI and LLM Integration into WinForms

- **Provide easy-to-use, WinForms-typical components for AI and LLMs:**

  - Offer customers a platform to rapidly develop tools for learning, exploring, and prototyping technologies based on AI and LLMs.

  - Enable customers to iteratively implement AI, LLMs, and agents into their existing, large-scale Line-of-Business (LOB) WinForms applications, providing a feasible adoption path for both their applications and teams.

  - Give developers an easy way to quickly create custom tools that enhance and simplify workflows, similar to how macros improved Word and Excel workflows in the early 1990s.

### 2. Ensuring Compatibility with Existing Stacks

- **Support modern architecture and development approaches:**

  - Incorporate XAML-based architecture patterns like MVVM.

  - Provide alternatives to legacy WinForms technologies that prevent Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation.

  - Integrate Blazor-based UI components to extend and modernize existing WinForms applications.

### 3. Facilitating AI-Powered Auto-Migration

- **Develop infrastructure to support automatic or semi-automatic modernization:**

  - Build tools and frameworks needed for auto-migration processes, such as the Upgrade Assistant.

  - Lower risks associated with modernizing applications using AI- or agent-driven tools.

### 4. Improving Rendering Performance and Accessibility

- **Modernize rendering pipelines for better performance and compatibility:**

  - Address serious rendering issues caused by GDI/GDI+ on newer graphics cards.

  - Introduce performant and accessible rendering solutions using Direct2D/DirectWrite.

  - Leverage AI-assisted approaches to create role-model projects demonstrating these modernized techniques.

### 5. Updating and Expanding Templates

- **Revitalize outdated project templates:**

  - Replace obsolete code in existing templates, ensuring compliance with modern standards.

  - Provide "Get Started" solution templates tailored to various scenarios to help customers quickly transition to modern workflows.

- **Expand project template offerings to cover important use cases:**

  - Windows Services.

  - Custom developer tools based on Roslyn with specialized WinForms UIs.

  - System Tray applications.

  - Scaffolds for LOB applications utilizing Azure features like:

    - Web APIs.

    - SignalR.

    - Azure Functions.

    - Microsoft Graph.