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Learn WinUI 3.0

By : Alvin Ashcraft
5 (1)
Book Image

Learn WinUI 3.0

5 (1)
By: Alvin Ashcraft

Overview of this book

WinUI 3.0 takes a whole new approach to delivering Windows UI components and controls, and is able to deliver the same features on more than one version of Windows 10. Learn WinUI 3.0 is a comprehensive introduction to WinUI and Windows apps for anyone who is new to WinUI, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), and XAML applications. The book begins by helping you get to grips with the latest features in WinUI and shows you how XAML is used in UI development. You'll then set up a new Visual Studio environment and learn how to create a new UWP project. Next, you'll find out how to incorporate the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern in a WinUI project and develop unit tests for ViewModel commands. Moving on, you'll cover the Windows Template Studio (WTS) new project wizard and WinUI libraries in a step-by-step way. As you advance, you'll discover how to leverage the Fluent Design system to create beautiful WinUI applications. You'll also explore the contents and capabilities of the Windows Community Toolkit and learn to create a new UWP user control. Toward the end, the book will teach you how to build, debug, unit test, deploy, and monitor apps in production. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build WinUI applications from scratch and modernize existing WPF and WinForms applications using WinUI controls.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to WinUI and Windows Applications
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Section 2: Extending WinUI and Modernizing Applications
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Section 3: Build and Deploy on Windows and Beyond

Exploring the Windows Community Toolkit Sample App

As we mentioned earlier in this chapter, the Windows Community Toolkit Sample App is available from the Microsoft Store (https://www.microsoft.com/p/windows-community-toolkit-sample-app/9nblggh4tlcq). It can be installed on Windows 10 version 17134 or higher or on Xbox One. Like the XAML Controls Gallery we discussed in Chapter 5, Exploring WinUI Controls, the toolkit sample app provides us with an easy way to navigate and explore the contents of the WCT.

Installing and launching the sample app

Let's get started:

  1. Open the Microsoft Store app from the Windows Start menu and enter windows community in the Search box:

    Figure 9.1 – Finding the sample app in the Microsoft Store

  2. Select Windows Community Toolkit Sample App from the search results and click the Install button on the resulting page. After the installation completes, the Install button will become a Launch button. Open the app from there or the Start...