Understanding what WinUI offers developers
In Chapter 1, Introduction to WinUI, you learned a good amount of background about the origins of WinUI and UWP. That chapter also covered some of the controls available in the various releases of WinUI. Now, it's time to explore a few of these in more detail. Let's start by looking at a complete list of the controls available to developers in WinUI 3:
Figure 5.1 – The list of WinUI 3.0 controls
The items notated with WinUI in parentheses are WinUI controls that were not previously available in UWP applications. This is quite an extensive list of controls available to developers out of the box.
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For an up-to-date list of the available controls, you can check this page on Microsoft Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/uwp/design/controls-and-patterns/.
If you have developed Windows applications before, most of these control names probably look familiar to you. In the next few sections...