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Learn WinUI 3.0

You're reading from   Learn WinUI 3.0 Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development

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Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800208667
Length 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alvin Ashcraft is a senior content developer at Microsoft, working on the Windows developer documentation team on Microsoft Learn, with a focus on the Windows App SDK, .NET MAUI, Win32, and other desktop application technologies. Prior to this, Alvin spent over 25 years as a software developer and architect, most recently at Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, delivering electronic health record (EHR) software to healthcare systems across the world. He is the author of two previous books for Packt, the first edition of Learn WinUI 3 and Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6.
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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

Installing Visual Studio and Windows development workloads

The first step to follow when starting with WinUI development is to install Microsoft's Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). You can download the current version of Visual Studio 2019 from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/. Visual Studio Community 2019 edition is free for personal use and has all the features you will need to build WinUI applications.

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If you want to try new Visual Studio features before they are released, you can install the Visual Studio Preview version from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/. The Preview version is not recommended for development of production applications as some features are unstable.

During installation, you can select workloads for any type of application that you want to create. For WinUI development, you must select these three workloads:

  • .NET desktop development
  • .NET Core cross-platform development
  • Universal...
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Alvin Ashcraft is a senior content developer at Microsoft, working on the Windows developer documentation team on Microsoft Learn, with a focus on the Windows App SDK, .NET MAUI, Win32, and other desktop application technologies. Prior to this, Alvin spent over 25 years as a software developer and architect, most recently at Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, delivering electronic health record (EHR) software to healthcare systems across the world. He is the author of two previous books for Packt, the first edition of Learn WinUI 3 and Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6.
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