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Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI

You're reading from   Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI Expand your desktop apps to support new features and deliver an integrated Windows 11 experience

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235660
Length 514 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Basic Concepts
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with the Windows App SDK and WinUI FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Modernization Journey
4. Chapter 2: The Windows App SDK for a Windows Forms Developer 5. Chapter 3: The Windows App SDK for a WPF Developer 6. Chapter 4: The Windows App SDK for a UWP Developer 7. Chapter 5: Designing Your Application 8. Chapter 6: Building a Future-Proof Architecture 9. Section 3: Integrating Your App with the Windows Ecosystem
10. Chapter 7: Migrating Your Windows Applications to the Windows App SDK and WinUI 11. Chapter 8: Integrating Your Application with the Windows Ecosystem 12. Chapter 9: Implementing Notifications 13. Chapter 10: Infusing Your Apps with Machine Learning Using WinML 14. Section 4: Distributing Your Application
15. Chapter 11: Publishing Your Application 16. Chapter 12: Enabling CI/CD for Your Windows Applications 17. Assessments 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 4: The Windows App SDK for a UWP Developer

The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) was introduced in Windows 10 with the goal of delivering a modern development platform for Windows. Many valuable concepts that are important to provide a modern experience nowadays were included from the beginning, such as support for new input paradigms or advanced UI scaling capabilities.

As such, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the Windows App SDK can be considered a direct successor of UWP, as it reuses many of the same building blocks and fundamental UWP concepts. Some of the Windows App SDK features even come directly from UWP itself. The UI layer is, without a doubt, the most prominent one: WinUI 3 does, in fact, use the same UI layer as UWP but detached from the operating system so that it can also be consumed by Win32 apps developed with .NET or C++.

The result is that if you have experience building apps with UWP, you have a great advantage over a Windows Forms or WPF...

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