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CodeBrix.Platform

CodeBrix.Platform is a cross-platform desktop UI framework for .NET 10. You write your application once using the WinUI XAML API surface (Microsoft.UI.Xaml.* controls, XAML, code-behind, and data binding), and CodeBrix.Platform renders it natively on Windows, Linux, and macOS using a Skia-based rendering engine.

One shared UI and business-logic codebase, multiple thin per-platform executables.

Supported targets

• Windows — Win32 host or WPF host
• Linux — X11 desktop, or framebuffer (for kiosk/embedded devices)
• macOS — Apple Silicon and Intel

Mobile (iOS/Android) and WebAssembly/browser targets are out of scope for this framework.

How an app is structured

A CodeBrix.Platform solution has three kinds of projects:

1. .Core — a class library holding your application logic, view models, and the framework + extension NuGet package references.
2. .UI — a shared project (.shproj + .projitems) holding the shared XAML: App.xaml and your views.
3. One executable "head" per platform — a thin project that references .Core, imports the .UI shared project, and references exactly one platform package.

Packages

The framework and extension packages are referenced by the .Core library; each head project references exactly one of the Runtime.Skia.* host packages.

Getting started

The fastest way to learn the structure is the canonical reference application, JustBetweenUs, which ships a complete app across all five platform heads:

https://github.com/ellisnet/JustBetweenUs — see the CodeBrixPlatform/ folder (on the main branch).

A typical head's startup looks like:

using CodeBrix.Platform.UI.Hosting;

var host = CodeBrixPlatformHostBuilder.Create()
    .App(() => new App())
    .UseWindowsWin32()   // or UseWindowsWpf / UseLinuxX11 / UseLinuxFrameBuffer / UseMacOS
    .Build();

host.Run();

For AI coding agents

A detailed, machine-oriented guide for setting up a complete CodeBrix.Platform application is included in AGENT-README.txt (shipped in the root of every CodeBrix.Platform NuGet package, and in this repository).

License

Most CodeBrix.Platform packages are licensed under Apache-2.0; the SkiaSharp.Views package is MIT. Each package id carries an explicit license suffix (.ApacheLicenseForever or .MitLicenseForever).

The CodeBrix.Platform codebase is a fork of the Uno Platform (version 6.5.x), re-licensed and re-packaged under the CodeBrix.Platform name. For complete third-party attribution, component provenance, and license texts, see the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt file in this repository (and in the root of every CodeBrix.Platform NuGet package).