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You probably won't. This is .NET Core only. .NET Core is a cross platform slimmed down version of .NET and doesn't run Winforms or desktop WPF. Windows Store WPF is supported.

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If they really wanted to they could open source Silverlight GUI framework. That was basically WPF lite. They can take out the video/DRM stuff and just put the GUI layer out there - it was ported to OSX so it's at least somewhat portable.

It would be nice to have something like JavaFX for .NET - resurrected Silverlight could be it.

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