You're reading from Learn WinUI 3.0 Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800208667

Length 440 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

WinUI

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Alvin Ashcraft

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to WinUI and Windows Applications

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to WinUI FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Configuring the Development Environment and Creating the Project

4. Chapter 3: MVVM for Maintainability and Testability

5. Chapter 4: Advanced MVVM Concepts

6. Chapter 5: Exploring WinUI Controls

7. Chapter 6: Leveraging Data and Services

8. Section 2: Extending WinUI and Modernizing Applications

9. Chapter 7: Fluent Design System for Windows Applications

10. Chapter 8: Building WinUI Apps with .NET 5

11. Chapter 9: Enhancing Applications with the Windows Community Toolkit

12. Chapter 10: Modernizing Existing Win32 Applications with XAML Islands

13. Section 3: Build and Deploy on Windows and Beyond

14. Chapter 11: Debugging WinUI Applications with Visual Studio

15. Chapter 12: Hosting an ASP.NET Core Blazor Application in WinUI

16. Chapter 13: Building, Releasing, and Monitoring Applications with Visual Studio App Center

17. Chapter 14: Packaging and Deploying WinUI Applications

18. Assessments

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Discovering application packaging and MSIX basics

For most of this book, we have been building and running our applications locally. We have touched on some packaging concepts in Chapter 8, Building WinUI Apps with .NET 5, and deployment with App Center in Chapter 13, Building, Releasing, and Monitoring Applications with Visual Studio App Center. Now, it's time to build on those concepts and gain a deeper understanding of packaging and deploying WinUI applications.

Why package your application? Well, an application package is currently required for WinUI applications to be installed in Windows. This requirement will likely change as Project Reunion and WinUI applications evolve. Today, when you run a WinUI project in Visual Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) creates a package and deploys it locally. Packaging serves several other important purposes, outlined as follows: