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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

Installing Visual Studio and Windows development workloads

The first step to follow when starting with WinUI development is to install Microsoft's Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). You can download the current version of Visual Studio 2019 from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/. Visual Studio Community 2019 edition is free for personal use and has all the features you will need to build WinUI applications.

Tip

If you want to try new Visual Studio features before they are released, you can install the Visual Studio Preview version from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/. The Preview version is not recommended for development of production applications as some features are unstable.

During installation, you can select workloads for any type of application that you want to create. For WinUI development, you must select these three workloads:

  • .NET desktop development
  • .NET Core cross-platform development
  • Universal...