What’s new in WinUI 3?

Unlike WinUI 2.0 and the incremental versions that followed, WinUI 3 is a major update featuring more than new and improved controls and libraries to use with Windows desktop apps. In fact, the primary goal of WinUI 3 was not to add new controls and features beyond its current UWP counterparts. The Windows App SDK team has made WinUI a complete UI framework that can sit atop the Windows desktop .NET platform.

Goodbye UWP?

So, what is happening to UWP? Will our UWP apps stop working?

As previously mentioned, the plan for the UWP UI libraries is to keep providing important security updates, but they will not receive any new features going forward. It is likely that WinUI 2.8 will be the final 2.x version. All new features and updates will be developed for WinUI and the Windows App SDK. New applications will be developed in WinUI with either .NET, written in C# or VB, or with native C++. These clients will sit on top of the Win32 platform. This is...