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 9: Enhancing Applications with the Windows Community Toolkit

The Windows Community Toolkit (WCT) is a collection of open source libraries for Windows developers. The toolkit contains controls and libraries that can be leveraged by WinUI, UWP, WPF, and WinForms applications. Among the controls in the toolkit are the XAML Islands container controls, which we will explore in more detail in Chapter 10, Modernizing Existing Applications with WinUI and XAML Islands. In the Microsoft Store, there is a companion sample application for the toolkit that developers can install to explore the controls and learn how to use them.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Learning about the background and purpose of the toolkit
Using the toolkit sample application to explore the controls available in the toolkit
Leveraging toolkit controls in a WinUI project
Exploring the toolkit's helpers, services, and extensions for Windows developers

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