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

Getting started with application packaging in Visual Studio

In the previous chapter, we saw how App Center could automatically create and deploy application packages. Now, we will see how we can manually package our applications with Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2019 includes two WinUI project templates capable of creating MSIX deployment packages, outlined as follows:

Blank App (WinUI in UWP): Creates a WinUI project with a package.appxmanifest file for generating an MSIX package
Blank App, Packaged (WinUI in Desktop): Creates a solution with two projects—a desktop WinUI project and a packaging project that contains the package.appxmanifest file

We are going to work with the WinUI in UWP MyMediaCollection solution again. You can either use your own solution from previous chapters or download a copy from this chapter's GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/-Learn-WinUI-3.0/tree/master/. Let's see how to generate an MSIX package...