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Learn WinUI 3.0

You're reading from   Learn WinUI 3.0 Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800208667
Length 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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

Using the WebViewCompatible browser control in WPF

The WebViewCompatible browser control in the WCT will render web pages in the legacy Edge browser in Windows 10 and in an Internet Explorer (IE)-compatible browser in earlier versions of Windows. As an example, if you are building a WPF or WinForms application on .NET Framework, you can deploy to Windows 7 with this browser control and continue to render web pages in the browser control. Keep in mind that many modern websites have compatibility issues with IE.

Now, let's add a pop-up browser window to the WPF project. For this, we're going to modify the WpfMaps project and add a Get Great Wall Info button to the button bar at the top of the main window. This will launch another window with a browser that will display the Wikipedia page for the Great Wall of China:

  1. Start by adding a fifth button to StackPanel in MainWindow.xaml:
    <Button x:Name="wallInfoButton" Margin="4"
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