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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

Debugging WinUI Applications with Visual Studio

Good debugging skills are essential for developers. While .NET developers need to know how to use features including breakpoints and the Output and Immediate windows, WinUI project debugging adds another set of tools and techniques to master. There are issues that can arise in the UI layer with data binding, layout, and resources. You will learn how to use Live Visual Tree and Live Property Explorer and how to discover data binding errors with Visual Studio’s XAML Binding Failures window.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • How to debug WinUI applications and work with breakpoints in ViewModels and service classes
  • How to debug data binding failures by leveraging the XAML Binding Failures window in Visual Studio and avoid common problems when binding to collections
  • Explore the Live Visual Tree window in Visual Studio to find layout problems in your XAML
  • Discover and use Live Property Explorer...
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