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Learn WinUI 3

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805120063
Length 386 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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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 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Leveraging x:Bind with events

In the previous chapter, we bound ViewModel commands to the Command properties of the Add Item and Delete Item buttons. This works great and keeps the ViewModel decoupled from the UI, but what happens if you need to handle an event that isn’t exposed through a Command property? For this scenario, you have two options:

  • Use a custom behavior such as EventToCommandBehavior in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit. This allows you to wire up a command in the ViewModel to any event.
  • Use x:Bind in the view to bind directly to an event handler on the view model.

In this application, we will use x:Bind. This option will provide compile-time type checking and added performance. If you want to learn more about the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit, you can read the documentation on Microsoft Learn: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/communitytoolkit/maui/behaviors/event-to-command-behavior.

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