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

Creating a Blazor Wasm application

It's time to start building the Blazor application that we'll be running in our WinUI application. We are going to use the .NET command-line interface (CLI) and Visual Studio Code to create the Blazor project. You can also use Visual Studio 2019 if you prefer the full-featured IDE:

Start by opening a Command Prompt with your terminal application of choice. I will be using Windows Terminal (https://www.microsoft.com/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701) with PowerShell 7 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/overview):
Figure 12.3 – Running PowerShell 7 in Windows Terminal
Use the terminal to change the current folder to the location where you keep your projects. My location will be C:\Users\alvinashcraft\source\repos.
Use the following command to create a new Blazor WebAssembly project named BlazorTasks and hit Enter: dotnet new blazorwasm -o BlazorTasks. The .NET CLI will create the new project, and you...