== About mg-desktop ==

mg-desktop is a desktop implementation of the MapGuide Platform API, it contains:

 1. A desktop-based implementation of the MapGuide API without requiring any dependencies on the MapGuide Server or Web Tier, including all the necessary components and services for building desktop-based geospatial applications such as feature data access and map rendering/stylization
 2. A WinForms-based map viewer component that can be embedded in your own .net applications. 

Source code is hosted under [http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/browser/trunk/MgDev/Desktop this repository] and binaries can be found on the [http://code.google.com/p/mg-desktop/downloads/list Google Code] site where this project previously existed.