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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Enhancing Applications with Community Toolkits

The Windows Community Toolkit (WCT) and the .NET Community Toolkit are collections of open source libraries for Windows and .NET developers. The toolkits contain controls and libraries that can be leveraged by the Windows UI Library (WinUI), Universal Windows Platform (UWP), .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Windows Forms (WinForms) applications. In the Microsoft Store, there is a companion sample application for the WCT 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 toolkits
Using the toolkit sample application to explore the controls available in the WCT
Leveraging toolkit controls in a WinUI project
Exploring the helpers, services, and extensions for Windows developers in the WCT
Discovering what’s available in the .NET...