Building the WinForms Repository

Prerequisites

• Windows is required for WinForms runtime scenarios, test execution, and Visual Studio workflows.
• Linux is supported for command-line restore/build only; use build.sh instead of build.cmd / Restore.cmd.
• Visual Studio 2022 (for IDE builds) — see WinForms.vsconfig for required workloads.
• The repo-local .NET SDK (specified in global.json) is used automatically by build.cmd and Restore.cmd. You do not need a machine-wide SDK install for command-line builds.

1 Restore

Restoring downloads the repo-local SDK and all NuGet packages.