Description

A few years ago, I created an implementation of Donald Knuth's Algorithm X using Dancing Links. My DlxLib implementation is available on NuGet. I also wrote a bunch of WPF demo apps.

I have not had a Windows machine for many years - I have been using a MacBook Pro. But, now that we have .NET MAUI, the idea of this repo is to convert these WPF demo apps to .NET MAUI and bring them all together in a single app.

Here are links to the existing WPF demo apps:

• Sudoku
• Draughtboard Puzzle
• TetraSticks
• Ripple Effect
• Flow Free

It would also be good to add some new demos e.g.:

• N Queens
• Aztec Diamond
• Kakuro
• Nonogram
• Crossword

Screenshots

TODO

• Convert/create demos:
  • Sudoku
  • Pentominoes (new - no old WPF counterpart - but I do have a web version here)
  • N Queens (new - no old WPF counterpart)
  • Draughtboard Puzzle
  • TetraSticks
  • Aztec Diamond (new - no old WPF counterpart)
  • Ripple Effect
  • Flow Free
  • Kakuro (new - no old WPF counterpart - but see here)
  • Nonogram (new - no old WPF counterpart)
  • Crossword (new - no old WPF counterpart)
  • Self Visualisation (new - no old WPF counterpart - but I do have a web version here)
• Display version information
• Do the solving on a background thread
• Find all solutions and provide a mechanism to navigate between them
• Add an About page
• Add an app icon
• Add unit tests (made a start)
• Deploy to Google Play Store
• Deploy to Apple App Store
• Release a new version of DlxLib targeting net6.0 (or net7.0 ?)
• Create new documentation for DlxLib e.g. GitBook ?

Links

• DlxLib
• .NET Multi-platform App UI documentation
• .NET MAUI API Reference
• Community Toolkits Documentation