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

Chapter 11: Debugging WinUI Applications with Visual Studio

Good debugging skills are essential for developers. While .NET developers need to know how to use things such as breakpoints and the Output and Immediate windows, WinUI debugging adds another set of tools and techniques to learn. There are issues that can arise in the UI layer with data binding, layout, and resources. You will learn how to use the Live Visual Tree, the Live Property Explorer, and how to discover data binding errors with Visual Studio's XAML Binding Failures window.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

How to debug WinUI applications and work with breakpoints in ViewModels and service classes
How to debug data binding problems with the XAML Binding Failures window in Visual Studio and avoid common problems binding to collections
How to use the Live Visual Tree window in Visual Studio to find layout problems in your XAML
How to use the Live Property Explorer to get...