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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805120063

Length 386 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Author (1):

Alvin Ashcraft

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

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

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Introducing the WCT

The WCT was created by Microsoft as an open source collection of controls and other helpers, tools, and services for Windows developers. It is primarily used by UWP developers but also adds value for WinUI, WinForms, and WPF developers. The toolkit is available to developers as a set of NuGet packages. There are over a dozen toolkit packages available on NuGet that can be installed independently, depending on the needs of your project. We will explore some of these packages throughout this chapter. Let’s start by discussing the history of the WCT.

The toolkit was open sourced from the very beginning. It has long been available on GitHub at https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit, but the next generation of the toolkit is being hosted at https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Windows. This new iteration of the toolkit is aimed toward helping WinUI 2, WinUI 3, and Uno Platform developers, but this new toolkit doesn’t have any releases...