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

Setting up builds in App Center

It's time to push the MyMediaCollection app to a repository in GitHub and link it to a new build in App Center. In the previous chapter, we added a project to GitHub with GitHub Desktop. In this section, we will use the Visual Studio 2019 GitHub extension to push our code to the cloud:

Open the MyMediaCollection project in Visual Studio. If you have your own copy of the project handy, you can use that. Otherwise, get the code from the Start folder of this chapter's repository, using the link in the Technical requirements section of this chapter.
Go to Extensions | Manage Extensions and search for GitHub. Select GitHub Extension for Visual Studio and install it. You will need to restart Visual Studio to complete the installation.
When Visual Studio restarts, go to the Git Changes window and click the Create Git Repository button. If you don't see the Git Changes window, you can open it from View | Git Changes:
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