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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Exploring the WinUI 3 Gallery app for Windows

Because there are so many powerful and configurable WinUI controls available, the WinUI team at Microsoft decided to create an application that allows Windows developers to explore and even try the controls. WinUI 3 Gallery is a great tool to get familiar with the controls, decide which ones are a good fit for your application, and get some sample code and design guidance.

Note

There is also a WinUI 2 Gallery app for UWP developers. The two apps used to be a single app called XAML Controls Gallery.

To install the WinUI 3 Gallery app, you can visit its Microsoft Store page on the web (https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/winui-3-gallery/9P3JFPWWDZRC) or launch the Microsoft Store app for Windows and search for WinUI 3 Gallery. The Gallery app itself is open source. You can browse the code to learn more about it on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/WinUI-Gallery.

Once it’s been installed, launch the application:

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