Technical requirements
To follow along with the examples in this chapter, the following software is required:
- Windows 10 version 1803 or newer. You can find your version of Windows in Settings | About.
- Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 or newer with the following workloads: .NET Desktop Development and UWP Development.
- WinUI 3.0 project templates—at the time of this writing, the templates can be downloaded from Visual Studio Marketplace at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Microsoft-WinUI.WinUIProjectTemplates. After WinUI 3.0 is released, the templates will likely be included with Visual Studio.
The source code for this chapter is available on GitHub at this URL: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/-Learn-WinUI-3.0/tree/master/Chapter01.
Note
The WinUI 3.0 site on Microsoft Docs has up-to-date guidance on setting up a developer workstation for WinUI development: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/toolkits/winui3/.