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

Chapter 5: Exploring WinUI Controls

WinUI offers a number of controls and APIs for developers building apps for Windows. The controls include new controls not previously available to Windows developers, as well as updated controls that were already available in WinUI 2.x or UWP. Using these new and updated controls with WinUI 3 enables their use in older versions of Windows 10 that did not previously support this full suite of components. Developers can also leverage XamlDirect APIs to get low-level access to XAML APIs.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Learning more about the controls that are available in WinUI
Exploring the XAML Controls Gallery application to learn about the WinUI controls
How the XamlDirect APIs provide middleware authors with a performant way to declaratively create and manipulate XAML types in their code
How to implement the SplitButton and TeachingTip controls in your application

By the end of this chapter, you...