You're reading from Learn WinUI 3 Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805120063

Length 386 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Windows App SDK

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Author (1):

Alvin Ashcraft

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 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. Part 2:Extending WinUI and Modernizing Applications

9. Chapter 7: Fluent Design System for Windows Applications

10. Chapter 8: Adding Windows Notifications to WinUI Applications

11. Chapter 9: Enhancing Applications with Community Toolkits

12. Chapter 10: Accelerating App Development with Template Studio

13. Part 3:Build and Deploy on Windows and Beyond

14. Chapter 11: Debugging WinUI Applications with Visual Studio

15. Chapter 12: Hosting a Blazor Application in WinUI

16. Chapter 13: Take Your App Cross-Platform with Uno Platform

17. Chapter 14: Packaging and Deploying WinUI Applications

18. Index

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Introduction to WinUI

WinUI 3 is a set of user interface (UI) controls and libraries that Windows developers can leverage in their desktop applications. It is the UI part of the Windows App SDK, which was previously known as Project Reunion. UWP developers use the Windows Software Development Kit (Windows SDK) to build their applications and are required to select a target SDK version in a project’s properties. By extracting the UWP controls and UI components from the Windows SDK, rewriting them for use with .NET, and releasing them as a set of libraries in the Windows App SDK under the name WinUI, Microsoft has been able to release versions at a faster cadence than Windows itself (as Windows SDK versions are linked to those of Windows). This separation also enables the controls to be used on older versions of Windows 10. While building desktop applications with WinUI is the current recommendation, it is important to learn where WinUI and the Windows App SDK fit into the larger...