Top 23 C# windows-desktop Projects

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1. Windows-Auto-Night-Mode

   1 45 8,987 9.8 C#

   Automatically switches between the dark and light theme of Windows 10 and Windows 11

   

   Project mention: Auto Dark Mode for Windows | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-25

2. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

3. p2p

   2 24 3,863 7.1 C#

   🖥️ P2P Remote Desktop - Portable, No Configuration or Installation Needed.

   

4. cairoshell

   3 9 3,178 7.9 C#

   Cairo is a customizable, intuitive desktop environment for Winrepo[description] dows.

   

5. OnTopReplica

   4 91 2,747 2.3 C#

   A real-time always-on-top “replica” of a window of your choice (on Windows).

   

6. PSAppDeployToolkit

   5 206 2,206 10.0 C#

   Project Homepage & Forums

   

7. DockPanelSuite

   6 1 1,833 0.0 C#

   DockPanel Suite - The Visual Studio inspired docking library for .NET WinForms

   

8. Windows-11-Guide

   7 24 1,699 2.4 C#

   Windows 10/11 Guide. Including Windows Security tools, Encryption, Nextcloud, Graphics, Gaming, Virtualization, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2), Software Apps, and Resources.

   

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

10. ParquetViewer

    8 1 1,036 6.1 C#

    Simple Windows desktop application for viewing & querying Apache Parquet files

    

11. 32feet

    9 1 955 8.2 C#

    Personal Area Networking for .NET. Open source and professionally supported

    

12. DarkUI

    10 2 862 0.0 C#

    Dark themed control and docking library for .NET WinForms.

    

13. NetSparkle

    11 6 773 8.0 C#

    NetSparkle is a C#, cross-platform, highly-configurable software update framework with pre-built UI for .NET developers compatible with .NET 4.6.2/.NET 6+, WinForms, WPF, and Avalonia; uses Ed25519 signatures. View basic usage here in the README and try the samples for yourself.

    

14. ManagedShell

    12 2 378 7.0 C#

    A library for creating Windows shell replacements using .NET.

    

15. Asus-ROG-Ally-Guide

    13 26 361 7.2 C#

    A Community Guide to getting all your Accessories, Games, Emulators, and Gaming Tips for your Asus ROG Ally Gaming Handheld.

    

16. SyncMLViewer

    14 2 206 7.6 C#

    A small real time SyncML protocol Viewer

    

17. AnyStatus

    15 0 59 1.3 C#

    A remote control for your CI/CD pipelines and more

    

18. SingleInstanceCore

    16 1 36 0.0 C#

    For developing single instance application - For Windows applications on .NET Core/ .NET 5

    

19. Countly SDK for Windows

    17 0 26 0.0 C#

    Windows Phone & Windows SDK for Countly Analytics

    

20. UpbeatUI

    18 2 24 8.2 C#

    A lightweight MVVM framework for touch based Windows applications on top of the WPF framework.

    

21. ValheimPlus-Manager

    19 1 13 4.0 C#

    GUI for management of ValheimPlus installations, both for game and server clients!

    

22. Scriper

    20 1 13 0.0 C#

    .Net Core desktop app for running scripts.

    

23. compinfo

    21 2 5 1.8 C#

    Display basic computer info

    

    Project mention: I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-11

    Here is one of few Windows apps that I have written, albeit in C#. compinfo is a single, 431 KB windows executable.

    It displays basic computer info including user name, computer name, OS, model, serial number (service tag), CPU model, memory, IPv4 address and uptime.

    https://github.com/jftuga/compinfo

24. shelled

    22 1 4 4.5 C#

    This project is a Windows shell replacement that aims to fully replace `explorer.exe` as the system shell, while keeping the UI layer purely HTML/CSS/JS for easy customization.

    

    Project mention: KDE like desktop environment, but for Windows 11 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-19

25. RoleDDNG

    23 0 2 0.0 C#

    A WPF-based role-playing character creation and modification tool, aimed at 100% compatibility with the old RoleDD program.

    

26. SaaSHub

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    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

    

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