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Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI

Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI

By : Pagani, Plogas
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Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI

Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI

4.4 (8)
By: Pagani, Plogas

Overview of this book

If you're a developer looking to improve and modernize your existing LOB applications to leverage modern Windows features without having to rewrite the entire application from scratch, this book is for you. You’ll learn how to modernize your existing Windows Forms, WPF, and UWP applications and enrich them with the latest Windows features. Starting with sample LOB applications that cover common scenarios, you'll learn the differences between various components and then focus on design features for improved visual aspects like accessibility and responsive layouts. The book shows you how to enhance your existing applications using Windows App SDK components and various Windows APIs, resulting in deeper integration with the operating system. You’ll be taking a closer look at WinML, which enables Windows applications to evaluate machine learning models offline and leverage the power of your machine, or notifications, to engage with your users in a more effective way. You’ll also learn how to make your application deployment-ready by distributing it using various platforms like the Microsoft Store or websites. By the end of this Windows book, you'll be able to create a migration plan for your existing Windows applications and put your knowledge to work by enhancing your application with new features and integrating them with the Windows ecosystem.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1: Basic Concepts
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Section 2: Modernization Journey
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Section 3: Integrating Your App with the Windows Ecosystem
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Section 4: Distributing Your Application

Summary

The adoption of the DevOps mindset and practices is becoming increasingly important to deliver successful software projects. CI and CD are critical parts of a successful DevOps implementation since they help you to ensure the quality of the applications you build and enable you to release updates more often and with confidence.

However, when it comes to adopting CI and CD for Windows desktop applications, there are a few challenges we must consider: versioning, signing, the need to distribute updates to a wide range of machines running the application, and more.

In this chapter, we explored how we can create a CI/CD pipeline for a Windows desktop application using one of the most popular platforms in the world for developers: GitHub. Thanks to GitHub Actions and the provided runners, we can automate all the tasks that are needed to produce a deployable Windows application: for instance, generating an MSIX package, versioning it, signing it with a certificate, and then...

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