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

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

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.

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/.