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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)
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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

Deploying your application with App Center

The next step in this DevOps process is to create a release that can be installed by testers or end users. A release could be some type of test release (alpha, beta, release candidate), or it might be a stable release for all users.

Access to each release is managed by creating Distribution Groups in App Center. These groups are granted access to specific releases. For example, you might have an Internal distribution group for testing early alpha releases, a Preview distribution group of select customers or other outside users to test beta releases, and an All Customers group to receive only the stable application releases.

That's right, you can distribute any kind of release through App Center. If you don't intend to make your application available to the public through an app store like the Microsoft Store, you can manage these releases solely through App Center.

Let's now review the process of creating a release...