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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
8
Section 2: Extending WinUI and Modernizing Applications
13
Section 3: Build and Deploy on Windows and Beyond

Anatomy of a WinUI in UWP project

Now that we have a new empty WinUI project loaded in Visual Studio, let's examine the different pieces. In Solution Explorer, you will see two XAML files named App.xaml and MainPage.xaml. We will start by discussing the purpose of each of these. Both files can be seen in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.5 – The new WinUI app in Solution Explorer

Reviewing App.xaml

The App.xaml file, as its name implies, stores resources available across an entire application. If you have any templates or styles that will need to be used across multiple pages, they should be added at the Application level.

The new project's App.xaml file will contain some markup to start out, as illustrated in the following code snippet:

<Application
    x:Class="MyMediaCollection.App"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/
  presentation"
...