You're reading from Learn WinUI 3 Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805120063

Length 386 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Tools

Windows App SDK

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Alvin Ashcraft

View More author details

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 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. Part 2:Extending WinUI and Modernizing Applications

9. Chapter 7: Fluent Design System for Windows Applications

10. Chapter 8: Adding Windows Notifications to WinUI Applications

11. Chapter 9: Enhancing Applications with Community Toolkits

12. Chapter 10: Accelerating App Development with Template Studio

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

14. Chapter 11: Debugging WinUI Applications with Visual Studio

15. Chapter 12: Hosting a Blazor Application in WinUI

16. Chapter 13: Take Your App Cross-Platform with Uno Platform

17. Chapter 14: Packaging and Deploying WinUI Applications

18. Index

Why subscribe?

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

An overview of Uno Platform

Uno Platform is an open source UI framework that installs as an extension to Visual Studio. It is cross-platform, with the ability to target Windows, iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and WebAssembly. With a single C# and WinUI XAML code base, you can target all of these platforms. While the Uno Platform team recommends Visual Studio for the best experience, you can build Uno applications with Visual Studio Code or the JetBrains Rider IDE. The pros and cons of each development environment are discussed on Uno Platform’s Get Started documentation: https://platform.uno/docs/articles/get-started.html?tabs=windows#select-your-development-environment.

Uno Platform was first released in May 2018 and has been growing in popularity in recent years. They have also added to their supported platforms and shifted from UWP to WinUI 3 in their XAML support. This year, in their 4.10.13 release, they even added support for embedding .NET MAUI controls within Uno Platform...