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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)
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

Chapter 13: Building, Releasing, and Monitoring Applications with Visual Studio App Center

Visual Studio App Center provides a central place in the cloud to build, test, deploy, and monitor applications online. WinUI developers can add Continuous Integration (CI) capabilities to their projects, push beta versions to users with Continuous Delivery (CD), and manage release delivery through the App Center portal. Instrumenting your code to get real-time analytics is a breeze too. With a few lines of code, App Center can provide real-time app monitoring and analytics as well as access to crash reports from beta or production users.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Learning to set up an App Center account and create your first project
  • Learning to integrate App Center with code repositories to set up CI builds
  • How to get your application to beta testers for early feedback
  • How to integrate App Center monitoring and analytics with your application...