Using controls from the toolkit
We explored a handful of the WCT controls in the sample app in the previous section. Now, it’s time to use them in a WinUI project. To demonstrate some of the controls in action, we are going to create a new WinUI 3 in Desktop project.
Note
At the time of writing, the WCT controls are not recommended for use in production apps and have some caveats. To learn more about the current limitations, you can read this Microsoft blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ifdef-windows/windows-community-toolkit-for-project-reunion-0-5/.
Creating the WinUI project
To start our WCT project, you will have to launch Visual Studio and follow these steps: