Section 2: Extending WinUI and Modernizing Applications

In this section, you build on what has been learned about WinUI application development, and expand on it with design concepts, platform options, and open source libraries. The Fluent Design system that is native to WinUI controls provides Windows application users with a familiar look and feel. You will learn how to bring this same design to desktop applications by building WinUI 3.0 applications on the .NET 5 platform. Finally, readers will explore the Windows Community Toolkit (WCT), a series of open source packages that expand on the controls available to WinUI developers. The XAML Islands controls in the WCT can even bring native WinUI controls to existing WPF and WinForms desktop applications.

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 7, Fluent Design System for Windows Applications
• Chapter 8, Building WinUI Applications with .NET 5
• Chapter 9, Enhancing Applications with the Windows Community...