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

Reviewing what's new in WinUI 3.0

Although WinUI 3.0 is a major release, the number of new features is not large, and only one new control has been added to the library: WebView2. That may be surprising to many people, but the first feature was quite an undertaking. We'll look at all of them in the following subsections.

Backward compatibility

To make WinUI applications compatible with any version of Windows (starting with the Creator's Update, released in spring 2017), the WinUI team had to extract all of the UWP controls from the Windows SDK and move them to the new Microsoft.UI.Xaml libraries. The result of this work not only creates compatibility with more versions of Windows, but it also enables developers to consume WinUI, regardless of whether they are using UWP or Win32 as the underlying platform. C# and Visual Basic developers can build .NET 5 apps with WinUI for Desktop projects and .NET Native apps with WinUI for UWP projects, and C++ developers can...