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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Windows App SDK

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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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Running in the browser with WebAssembly

In this final section, we will try running the application in the browser with WebAssembly. Uno Platform makes it easy to do, but like Android, the compilation and deployment can take a little time. That’s because the entire application needs to run client-side within the browser. That means that in addition to deploying our application, all its dependencies (even a version of the .NET runtime) also need to be deployed.

This is one reason why the adoption of WebAssembly hasn’t been as fast as many anticipated. The first-time load performance of these apps can be sluggish at best. Uno Platform published a blog post about optimizing WebAssembly performance with Uno Platform applications. If you plan to pursue this option, you should read this post: https://platform.uno/blog/optimizing-uno-platform-webassembly-applications-for-peak-performance/.

Change the startup project to UnoMediaCollection.Wasm and start debugging. You’...