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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800208667
Length 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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

MVVM libraries for WinUI

When working with MVVM in WinUI applications, you must create a little infrastructure code to facilitate data binding between Views and View Models. You can either write this yourself or choose a framework that abstracts this plumbing code away from your application. Although we will be writing the plumbing code for our application in the next section, let's review some popular MVVM frameworks for WinUI before that.

Windows Community Toolkit MVVM library

We will discuss the Windows Community Toolkit (WCT) in more detail in Chapter 9, Enhancing Applications with the Windows Community Toolkit, but one of the libraries included in this open source toolkit is the MVVM library. You can get the Microsoft.Toolkit.Mvvm NuGet package through the NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio or view its details on the NuGet website, at https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Toolkit.Mvvm/7.0.0.

The library includes base classes to support INotifyPropertyChanged...

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