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Learn WinUI 3.0

By : Alvin Ashcraft
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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)
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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

Chapter 12: Hosting an ASP.NET Core Blazor Application in WinUI

Blazor is a web framework from Microsoft that allows .NET developers to create C# web applications with little to no JavaScript code. Server-side Blazor applications were introduced with ASP.NET Core 3.0, and ASP.NET Core 3.2 added the ability to create client-side Blazor web apps with WebAssembly (Wasm). Wasm (https://webassembly.org/) allows runtimes such as .NET and Java to run in web applications in the browser, and it is supported by all the major browser engines. By leveraging the new WebView2 control in WinUI, Windows developers can run a cloud-hosted Blazor application inside their WinUI client application.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Learning some basics of client-side .NET development with ASP.NET Core and Blazor
  • Creating a Blazor application with Visual Studio Code
  • Deploying Blazor applications to Azure static website hosting
  • Creating a WinUI application to host...