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

Understanding WinUI and UWP

Let's review the WinUI controls available to use in our project and see how they can help us build the My Media Collection application. The Microsoft.WinUI package we saw in Solution Explorer earlier in the chapter contains these controls, and much more.

To view the contents of this package, open the Object Browser window from Visual Studio's View menu. The controls will be listed here under Microsoft.UI | Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.13 – WinUI in the Object Browser

All of the available WinUI controls can be found inside the Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls namespace, along with other related classes and interfaces.

So far, we have used in our application the Grid, TextBlock, and ListView controls. Open the Object Browser window from the View menu. Then, find the ListView class, expand Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.ListView | Base Types, and select the ListViewBase...