Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to work with various UI frameworks to make UIs responsive. First, we looked at WinForms. With WinForms, we enabled DPI and long file path awareness. We also ensured that despite running long background tasks, we could page through data in a table and perform other UI operations, and we also added a splash screen that updates with the loading progress.

With WPF, we managed to produce a window that has a long-running task that can be canceled with progress indication. It also has a paged data table and button that, when clicked, updates the click count label.

Then, we looked at memory caching and distributed caching in ASP.NET. We also used AJAX to update part of the currently displayed page and looked at WebSockets and SignalR. We implemented a real-time ASP.NET chat application using SignalR.

We then went on to look at MAUI. In particular, we looked at layouts, accessibility, and BlazorWebView. Finally, we looked at WinUI 3 and how...