Windows software on linux server

Run Windows application on Linux server

Hi All,
We have a Winforms application with a very minimum UI. We are currently using .Net Framework 4.5. We need to run this application on a Linux machine. We are currently considering migrating the .Net Framework to .Net Core.

Please let us know if there any other better approach to achieve this task or if we can continue with .Net Core.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!!

.NET: Microsoft Technologies based on the .NET software framework. Runtime: The period of time during which a program is being executed in a computer.

Sorry for the late response.
Yes, it will be a console application and as per suggestion, we will go ahead with .Net Core. Thank you for your response!!

Hello All,
As we are considering using .Net Core, can anyone suggest which version of .Net Core would be better. Is it better to use .Net Core 3.1 or .Net Core 5.0?? Can anyone please let us know on this. Thank you in advance!!

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.NET 5 introduce limited support for WinForm, so you may give it a try. You’re strongly advised to review what is not supported and replace them with alternatives before start conversion.

Oh, you’re right. Apologies for the mistake. In that case, to use GUI on Linux you’ll need some cross platform libraries like Xamarin. Note that the GTK# that it based on is still on preview.

It’s there as of late 2018. Although everything (I mean both GTK#, and the GTK# target for Xamarin.Forms) is still in preview, I suppose applications built with simple and general Windows control would have decent chance to work with it. Apparently they «settled» the «QC problem» by explicitly offload support to the community, in order to move forward.

Why don’t install Mono runtime on linux to run your .net winforms application ? I did it to run a winform application on raspberry (Debian)

Agreed. You can just continue to code for .NET Framework 4.X and ignore about .NET Core/.NET 5 for now. I’ve written a few .NET v1.1 application that runs on Linux with Mono 10+ years ago and it needs very little changes to work. (The changes I needed to make are mostly due to filesystem permission difference)

If you are running an app in Linux it will be fine .net framework is cross-comp is great for running them.
You just have to download Mono or the .net run time to run apps. (WPF apps use Microsoft’s DX to render the app, so you can’t use that app on Linux or Mac) Developing them however is a wildly hard idea. Winforms is sadly outdated, while MS is trying to update it, the legacy code really bad. You should look into migrating to
Avalonia UI. It’s an Open Source, Cross-platform UI library like WinForms (that is an understatement). If you want to stay on WinForms however Mono supports in runtime and SDK. proof of concept for WinForms running in Linux using Mono Really Avalonia replaces both WPF and WinForms.

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Запускаем программы Windows на удаленном Linux сервере

Была у меня как то проблемка, везде используется linux но вот одна программа работала только на Windows а именно Litemanager NoIP сервер, держать ради нее отдельную Windows машину не хотелось, да и с у четом того что от программы нужно блыо только чтобы она «проксировала» было решено перенести это на маленькую ubuntu машину где нибудь в облаке

в данном примере я использую Ubuntu 16.04

sudo dpkg —add-architecture i386

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key

sudo apt-key add winehq.key

Устанавливаем fluxbox и vnc4server:

sudo apt-get install fluxbox vnc4server

добавляем пользователя vnc_server

переключаемся напользователя vnc_server

vncserver -geometry 800x600 -depth 24 vncserver -kill :1 

Настраиваем VNC для инеграции с fluxbox

echo «fluxbox &» >> ~/.vnc/xstartup

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/vnc_server.service

[Unit] Description=VNC Server After=network.target [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/vnc_server.sh start" &>/dev/null & ExecStop=/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/vnc_server.sh stop" RemainAfterExit=yes [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target 

Сохраняем, перезапускаем systemctl

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Создаем скрипт запуска vncserver имени пользователя vnc_server

sudo nano /usr/bin/vnc_server.sh

#!/bin/sh export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin" #service=vnc_server.service start() < # start daemon echo -n "Starting VNC: " su -c "vncserver :1 -geometry 800x600 -depth 24" vnc_server RETVAL=$? return $RETVAL >stop() < # stop daemon echo -n "Stopping VNC: " su -c "vncserver -kill :1 >/dev/null 2>&1" vnc_server RETVAL=$? return $RETVAL > case "$1" in start) start RETVAL=$? ;; stop) stop RETVAL=$? ;; restart) stop sleep 1 start RETVAL=$? ;; condrestart) stop sleep 1 start ;; status) status $service RETVAL=0 ;; *) echo "Usage: $service " RETVAL=1 ;; esac exit $RETVAL 

Включаем серис при запуске:

sudo systemctl enable vnc_server

sudo chmod 775 /usr/bin/vnc_server.sh

Копируем программу на сервер

scp -r ~/lm пользовательssh@адрессервера:~/lm

Переносим в папку vnc_server

sudo mkdir /home/vnc_server/lm & sudo mv ~/lm/* /home/vnc_server/lm sudo chown vnc_server /home/vnc_server/lm/* 

Используя люой vnc клиент подключаемся к серверу правой кнопкой мыши запускаем Applications>Terminal Emulators>Xterm и в водим

Автозапуск программы при старте системы:

sudo nano /home/vnc_server/.fluxbox/startup

и перед exec fluxbox добавляем

хочу так же добавить что LMNoIpServer была выбрана в качестве примера

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