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Unfortunately it's still a non-starter, because so many things I need that are also Microsoft SDKs are not ported, nor are they likely to ever be.

Also, we need a GUI, of some kind.

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Which SDKs? Also there are several cross-platform GUI frameworks for .NET core already, it's really not worth that much to have yet another one.

Blazor (.NET webassembly) + Electron is an interesting option though for the future.

Various enterprisy things that tie in with Office in some way, shape, or fashion. The biggest one being the Skype for Business server SDK, which is some kind of bastard red-haired step-child, receiving only the most token updates since 2010, yet is massively important for doing anything productive that isn't supported out-of-the-box with their enterprise unified communications platform.

I believe much of that is now deprecated in favor of Office 365 APIs with the Microsoft Teams layer for communications.

Are you stuck on Skype for business due to enterprise policy?

Mostly due to customers that buy our software that are still running EOL versions of these products, or are in industries where running a SAAS version is never going to fly.

There is no Teams API to speak of, I'm super confused why Microsoft is pushing it so hard when they are wildly behind on the integrations that were promised already, and the functionality is behind the product that it is supposed to replace.

That's likely COM, meaning tough luck so far as netcore goes AFAIK. What you can do is wrap it in a service over something like HTTP or gRPC (even with a localhost NIC binding). Your codebase doesn't have to be homogeneous.

My understanding is that they will be porting Windows Forms, WPF, and UWP to .NET Core, in a Windows-only fashion.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/05/07/net-core-...

> Also, we need a GUI, of some kind.

Would be .NET Core 3 you'd be waiting for then:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/05/07/net-core-...

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