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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
13
Section 3: Build and Deploy on Windows and Beyond

Debugging live data with Live Visual Tree and Live Property Explorer

While the XAML Binding Failures window is new to Visual Studio, the in-app toolbar has been available to XAML developers since 2015. The toolbar floats over the active window in your application while you are debugging. There are several parts to the toolbar:

  • Go to Live Visual Tree: Opens the Live Visual Tree window.
  • Select Element: Allows you to select an element in the Live Visual Tree by clicking on it in the active window.
  • Display Layout Adorners: This will highlight the element in the UI that is selected in the Live Visual Tree.
  • Display Heatmaps: This control will indicate which parts of the UI are most active.
  • Track Focused Element: While the Live Visual Tree window is open, toggling this on will indicate in the Live Visual Tree which element currently has focus in the UI.
  • Binding failures: Indicates the number of current binding failures and opens the XAML Binding Failures window...