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Learn WinUI 3

You're reading from   Learn WinUI 3 Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805120063
Length 386 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Alvin Ashcraft is a senior content developer at Microsoft, working on the Windows developer documentation team on Microsoft Learn, with a focus on the Windows App SDK, .NET MAUI, Win32, and other desktop application technologies. Prior to this, Alvin spent over 25 years as a software developer and architect, most recently at Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, delivering electronic health record (EHR) software to healthcare systems across the world. He is the author of two previous books for Packt, the first edition of Learn WinUI 3 and Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6.
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Preface 1. Part 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. Part 2:Extending WinUI and Modernizing Applications
9. Chapter 7: Fluent Design System for Windows Applications 10. Chapter 8: Adding Windows Notifications to WinUI Applications 11. Chapter 9: Enhancing Applications with Community Toolkits 12. Chapter 10: Accelerating App Development with Template Studio 13. Part 3:Build and Deploy on Windows and Beyond
14. Chapter 11: Debugging WinUI Applications with Visual Studio 15. Chapter 12: Hosting a Blazor Application in WinUI 16. Chapter 13: Take Your App Cross-Platform with Uno Platform 17. Chapter 14: Packaging and Deploying WinUI Applications 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Enhancing Applications with Community Toolkits

The Windows Community Toolkit (WCT) and the .NET Community Toolkit are collections of open source libraries for Windows and .NET developers. The toolkits contain controls and libraries that can be leveraged by the Windows UI Library (WinUI), Universal Windows Platform (UWP), .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Windows Forms (WinForms) applications. In the Microsoft Store, there is a companion sample application for the WCT that developers can install to explore the controls and learn how to use them.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Learning about the background and purpose of the toolkits
  • Using the toolkit sample application to explore the controls available in the WCT
  • Leveraging toolkit controls in a WinUI project
  • Exploring the helpers, services, and extensions for Windows developers in the WCT
  • Discovering what’s available in the .NET...
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Alvin Ashcraft is a senior content developer at Microsoft, working on the Windows developer documentation team on Microsoft Learn, with a focus on the Windows App SDK, .NET MAUI, Win32, and other desktop application technologies. Prior to this, Alvin spent over 25 years as a software developer and architect, most recently at Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, delivering electronic health record (EHR) software to healthcare systems across the world. He is the author of two previous books for Packt, the first edition of Learn WinUI 3 and Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6.
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