Welcome to NanUI

中文说明

NanUI is a library based on ChromiumFX that can let your Winform application use HTML5/CSS3 as user interface. You can use orginal Winform borders or full view no border form that use all html/css to design the interface.

NanUI is MIT licensed, so you can use it in both business and free/open source application. For more details, see the LICENSE file.

What's new in version 0.6

Rewritted codes of no border interface logic, new version is faster than old versions.
NanUI now supports Hi-DPI in Windows 8 and later.
Combined HtmlUIForm and HtmlContentForm to one Formium which support these two styles.
Install Nuget Package of NanUI will add CEF and ChromiumFX dependencies to your application automatically.

Build NetDimension.NanUI.dll

You should use the complier which supports C# 7.0 syntax. Visual Studio 2017 is recommended.

Releases

Stable NanUI binaries are released on NuGet. Use following Nuget command to install latest version of NanUI to your Winfrom application. It will install CEF and CFX dependencies too and the dependencies will automatic copy to the bin folder.

NOTE: NanUI requires .Net Framework 4.0 as minimal support.

Nuget Package Manager

PM> Install-Package NetDimension.NanUI

Release of NetDimension.NanUI.XP

Another version of NanUI that supports Windows XP is now can be downloaded on Nuget by using following command:

PM> Install-Package NetDimension.NanUI.XP

Download Manually

NetDimension.NanUI - NanUI main library
NetDimension.NanUI.Cef2987 - Dependencies of NanUI (Include CEF3.2987.1601.0 and ChromiumFX3.2987.1601 binaries)

Changes

Latest change at 2018/3/2, see here to check the details.

Basic Usage

Initialize Runtime in Main

namespace TestApplication
{
	using NetDimension.NanUI;
	static class Program
	{
		[STAThread]
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			Application.EnableVisualStyles();
			Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);

			//Initalize: set CEF paths
			//If you use default structure of the FX folder, you should provide paths of fx folder, resources folder and locales folder.

			var result = Bootstrap.Load();
			
			if (result)
			{
				// Load embedded html/css resources in assembly.
				Bootstrap.RegisterAssemblyResources(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());

				Application.Run(new Form1());

				Application.Exit();
			}

		}
	}
}

Using native Winform border style

namespace TestApplication
{
	public partial class Form1 : WinFormium

	{

		public Form1()
			//Load embedded resource index.html and not set form to no border style by the second parameter.
			: base("http://res.app.local/index.html")
		{
			InitializeComponent();
		}
	}
}

Using no border style

namespace TestApplication
{
	public partial class Form1 : Formium

	{

		public Form1()
			//Load embedded resource index.html and set form to no border style by igrone the second parameter or set it to true.
			: base("http://res.app.local/index.html")
		{
			InitializeComponent();
		}
	}
}

Documentation

WiKi

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