This is legacy Chromely and not actively supported. For active cross-platform Chromely see - .NET/.NET Core 3/.NET 5/Win/Linux/MacOS supported Chromely.
Chromely is a lightweight alternative to Electron.NET, Electron for .NET/.NET Core developers.
Chromely is a .NET/.NET Core HTML5 Chromium desktop framework. It is focused on building apps based on Xilium.CefGlue, CefSharp implementations of embedded Chromium (CEF) without WinForms or WPF. Chromely uses Windows and Linux native GUI API as "thin" chromium hosts. It can be extended to use WinForms or WPF.
With Chromely you can build Single Page Application (SPA) HTML5 desktop apps with or without Node/npm. Building SPA apps using javascript frameworks like Angular, React, Vue or similar is easy. You can use Visual Studio Code or any IDE you are familiar with as long as Chromely knows the entry html file from the compiled/bundled files. For more info please see - Chromely-Apps.
Options of communicating (IPC) with rendering process are via:
- .NET/Javascript integration (CefSharp) - more info @ Expose .NET class to JavaScript.
- Generic Message Routing (Xilium.CefGlue) - more info @ Generic Message Routing.
- Ajax HTTP/XHR (Xilium.CefGlue, CefSharp) - more info @ Custom Scheme Handling.
- Real-time with Websocket (ws) (Xilium.CefGlue) - more info @ Real-time with Websocket.
Cross-platform - Windows, Linux. Built on CefGlue, CefSharp, NET Standard 2.0, .NET Core 2.0, .NET Framework 4.61 and above.
| Platform | CefGlue.Winapi | CefGlue.Gtk | CefSharp.Winapi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows(1) 32-bit | net461, netstandard2.0 | net461, netstandard2.0 | net461 |
| Windows(1) 64-bit | net461, netstandard2.0 | --- | --- |
| Linux(2) 32-bit | --- | netstandard2.0 | --- |
| Linux(2) 64-bit | --- | netstandard2.0 | --- |
| MacOSX(3) 64-bit | --- | --- | --- |
| Linux ARM(4) | --- | netstandard2.0 | --- |
(1) Windows 7, Service Pack 1 and newer
(2) Ubuntu 16.04 and newer
(Mono currently not working, window resizing not working)
(3) Work in progress...
(4) i.e. Raspberry Pi 3+
(manual download of CEF builds for ARM available on http://chromely.org/cefbuilds/index.html)
For more info/documentation, please check Chromely wiki.
Get started with the demos.
For more info see - Getting Started
Notes on Upgrade to CefGlue version 70 and CefSharp version 71 (Chromely v4) - Please see.
class Program
{
static int Main(string[] args)
{
var startUrl = "https://google.com";
var config = ChromelyConfiguration
.Create()
.WithHostMode(WindowState.Normal)
.WithHostTitle("chromely")
.WithHostIconFile("chromely.ico")
.WithAppArgs(args)
.WithHostBounds(1000, 600)
.WithStartUrl(startUrl);
using (var window = ChromelyWindow.Create(config))
{
return window.Run(args);
}
}
}Run Starter Template (Using dotnet core cli). For more info, please see - dotnet cli demo template install
dotnet new -i "Chromely.CefGlue.Win.Template::*"
dotnet new chromelywin
dotnet restore
dotnet chromelycef.dll download v70 --cpu=x64 --dest="bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.1"
dotnet build
dotnet run For more info on demos - Demos
- WinApi - https://github.com/prasannavl/WinApi
- CEF - https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef
- Xilium.CefGlue - https://gitlab.com/xiliumhq/chromiumembedded/cefglue
- CefSharp - https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp
- Json Serializer - https://github.com/lbv/litjson
- Caliburn.Light Container - https://github.com/tibel/Caliburn.Light/blob/master/src/Caliburn.Core/IoC/SimpleContainer.cs
Contributions are always welcome, via PRs, issues raised, or any other means. To become a dedicated contributor, please contact the Chromely team or raise an issue mentioning your intent.
Chromely is MIT licensed. For dependency licenses please see.
Thanks to JetBrains for the OSS license of Resharper Ultimate.
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