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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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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

Installing Visual Studio and Windows desktop development workloads

The first step to follow when starting with WinUI development is to install Microsoft’s Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). You can download the current version of Visual Studio 2022 from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/. Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition is free for personal use and has all the features you will need to build WinUI applications.

Tip

If you want to try new Visual Studio features before they are released, you can install the latest Visual Studio Preview version from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/. The Preview version is not recommended for the development of production applications as some features are unstable.

During installation, you can select workloads for any type of application that you want to create. For WinUI development, you must start by selecting the .NET desktop development workload. An overview of the Workloads section...

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