Creating your first AlterNET UI Application

AlterNET UI is a cross-platform library, so we made sure you can use your favorite .NET development environment on Windows, macOS, and Linux. 

When writing this blog, we support Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

Visual Studio would be the easiest one to start with, with the help of AlterNET UI Visual Studio extension for Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2022. This extension registers a new project type: AlterNET UI application and a new document type - AlterNET UIXML File, where you can define window layout in a XAML-like style.

Watch the video on creating your first AlterNET UI application with Visual Studio, or refer to our step-by-step tutorial for more details.

Hello World - Windows

Developing in Visual Studio Code under macOS or Linux involves some command-line operations for downloading AlterNET UI project template and creating a new project. You can watch this video or refer to our step-by-step tutorial.

Hello World - macOS

Going forward, we’re looking at adding Visual Form designer to the Visual Studio extension and supporting Visual Studio for Mac and JetBrains Rider as a development environment.