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

Preface

WinUI 3.0 is Microsoft's first step toward a unified Windows development platform. This unification effort is called Project Reunion and is an attempt to bring UWP, WPF, and other desktop UI frameworks to one platform. WinUI allows developers to quickly build Windows applications with styles that adapt themselves to the platform. As the WinUI platform matures, developers will have the ability to target desktop Windows machines, Xbox, HoloLens, Surface Hub, and more.

Win32 application developers can also leverage WinUI controls to modernize their existing applications by using XAML Islands controls from the Windows Community Toolkit. This open source toolkit provides dozens of controls and other helper libraries for WinUI, UWP, and Win32 application developers. You will learn how to find the right controls for your applications and share them across multiple projects.

In this book, you will learn how to develop, debug, build, and deploy applications using Visual Studio and cloud tools from Microsoft Azure and GitHub. You will discover deployment options to get your WinUI application into the hands of consumer and enterprise Windows users. By the end of this book, you will have a foundational understanding of how to create, modernize, and distribute Windows applications with WinUI 3.0.