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

Summary

In this chapter, we have created a solution with several different projects. We learned about the WinUI in Desktop project, the WinUI control library, .NET 5 class library, and even a WPF desktop project with .NET 5. We have discussed the advantages of separating controls and logic into multiple projects to promote reuse. We also examined the packaging project, which can be used to package and distribute any kind of Windows desktop application. You will be able to take what you have learned in this chapter to either build new WinUI projects or to start preparing your existing desktop applications for migration to WinUI.

We will continue in this vein in the next chapter when we learn about the Windows Community Toolkit, which includes XAML Islands controls with the ability to host WinUI controls in WPF and WinForms applications. You will explore this and many more controls, helpers, and extensions that the toolkit offers Windows developers.