Chapter 2: Configuring the Development Environment and Creating the Project
To get started with WinUI development, it is important to install and configure Visual Studio for Windows development. A WinUI developer must also understand the basics of Universal Windows Platform (UWP) development with Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) and C#, which we started learning in Chapter 1, Introduction to WinUI. However, the best way to understand the development concept is to get your hands on a real project. We will do that here in this chapter.
After setting up your Visual Studio environment, you will create the beginnings of a project that we will be building throughout the rest of the book.
In this chapter, you will learn the following topics:
- How to set up a new Visual Studio installation for Windows application development
- How to create a new WinUI project, add a few controls, and run the project for the first time
- The anatomy of a new WinUI project and...
