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

Section 1: Introduction to WinUI and Windows Applications

WinUI 3.0 is Microsoft’s new UI framework for Windows developers. This section will start by exploring the recent history of XAML and Windows UI frameworks and introduce readers to WinUI. Throughout the chapters of this section, you will learn about WinUI concepts by building a simple project from scratch, adding controls and features by following design patterns and best practices. These patterns and practices include the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern, unit testing WinUI projects, and using dependency injection (DI) to inject service dependencies into the application components.

This section includes the following chapters: