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

Exploring the Desktop project structure

In this section, we are going to examine the files in the WebViewBrowser desktop project that was generated by the Visual Studio template. Exploring the differences between this project and our earlier WinUI projects will help you understand how the desktop app executes. When Visual Studio first loads the new solution, it displays some information about the packaging project:

Figure 8.4 – The WebViewBrowser solution in Visual Studio

We will explore the packaging project in the next section. Let's start by looking at some of the properties of the WebViewBrowser project. Right-click the project and select Properties. On the Application tab of the properties, you can see that the Target framework is .NET 5.0 and the Output type is Windows Application. You would see these same values in a new WPF project's properties.

Now let's open the App.xaml file. This looks the same as the App.xaml files in our...