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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800208667

Length 440 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

WinUI

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Alvin Ashcraft

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

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

Choosing a unit test framework

WinUI 3 does not currently support any of the .NET unit testing frameworks. However, following the MVVM pattern will make it simple to add unit tests to your application when support is added to WinUI.

There are three popular unit test frameworks for .NET developers today, as follows:

MSTest: This framework was created by Microsoft and has been included with Visual Studio for many years. Documentation on using MSTest with C# can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/testing/unit-testing-with-mstest.
NUnit: This open source framework was the first of the three mentioned here to be created for .NET developers. It was modeled after the JUnit Java unit testing framework. Learn more about the NUnit framework here: https://nunit.org/.
xUnit: xUnit has been quickly growing in popularity since its introduction. The xUnit team's aim was to create a framework that is modern and extensible and that aligns with the features...