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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Hosting a Blazor Application in WinUI

Blazor is a web framework from Microsoft that allows .NET developers to create C# web applications with little to no JavaScript code. Server-side Blazor applications were introduced with ASP.NET Core 3.0, and ASP.NET Core 3.2 added the ability to create client-side Blazor web apps with WebAssembly (Wasm). Wasm (https://webassembly.org/) allows runtimes such as .NET and Java to run in web applications in the browser, and it is supported by all modern browser engines. By leveraging the WebView2 control in WinUI 3, Windows developers can run a cloud-hosted Blazor application inside their WinUI client application. These options are changing a bit in .NET 8 with the introduction of rendering modes. We’ll discuss these new modes and the advantages of each.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: