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Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI

By : Matteo Pagani, Marc Plogas
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Book Image

Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI

5 (1)
By: Matteo Pagani, Marc 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)
1
Section 1: Basic Concepts
3
Section 2: Modernization Journey
9
Section 3: Integrating Your App with the Windows Ecosystem
14
Section 4: Distributing Your Application

Chapter 6: Building a Future-Proof Architecture

When you start to build real-world enterprise applications, creating a beautiful UI and delivering a good user experience are important, but not sufficient to create the fundamentals for a successful project. Enterprise applications are usually developed over a span of multiple years by teams made of multiple developers; as the application grows and becomes successful, you will need to onboard new developers into the team to keep up with the pace of business expansion.

For all these reasons, it's critically important to build applications that can easily be tested in an automated way so that as the application grows you can rest assured that none of the changes you're going to introduce will break other features and can be easily maintained. This will mean that when a problem does occur, you won't need 3 days just to understand where the issue might be coming from; this you can move forward in your application adding...