Learn WinUI 3.0

Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development

Alvin Ashcraft 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2021년 03월 26일 출간

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beginner's guide to building Windows applications with WinUI for UWP and desktop applications.

▶Book Description
WinUI 3.0 takes a whole new approach to delivering Windows UI components and controls, and is able to deliver the same features on more than one version of Windows 10. Learn WinUI 3.0 is a comprehensive introduction to WinUI and Windows apps for anyone who is new to WinUI, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), and XAML applications.

The book begins by helping you get to grips with the latest features in WinUI and shows you how XAML is used in UI development. You'll then set up a new Visual Studio environment and learn how to create a new UWP project. Next, you'll find out how to incorporate the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern in a WinUI project and develop unit tests for ViewModel commands. Moving on, you'll cover the Windows Template Studio (WTS) new project wizard and WinUI libraries in a step-by-step way. As you advance, you'll discover how to leverage the Fluent Design system to create beautiful WinUI applications. You'll also explore the contents and capabilities of the Windows Community Toolkit and learn to create a new UWP user control. Toward the end, the book will teach you how to build, debug, unit test, deploy, and monitor apps in production.

By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build WinUI applications from scratch and modernize existing WPF and WinForms applications using WinUI controls.

▶What You Will Learn
-Get up and running with WinUI and discover how it fits into the landscape of Project Reunion and Windows UI development
-Build new Windows apps quickly with robust templates
-Develop testable and maintainable apps using the MVVM pattern
-Modernize WPF and WinForms applications with WinUI and XAML Islands
-Discover how to build apps that can target Windows and leverage the power of the web
-Install the XAML Controls Gallery sample app and explore available WinUI controls

▶Key Features
-Create modern Windows 10 applicat

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▶TABLE of CONTENTS
▷Section 1: Introduction to WinUI and Windows Applications
-Chapter 1: Introduction to WinUI
-Chapter 2: Configuring the Development Environment and Creating the Project
-Chapter 3: MVVM for Maintainability and Testability
-Chapter 4: Advanced MVVM Concepts
-Chapter 5: Exploring WinUI Controls
-Chapter 6: Leveraging Data and Services

▷Section 2: Extending WinUI and Modernizing Applications
-Chapter 7: Fluent Design System for Windows Applications
-Chapter 8: Building WinUI Apps with .NET 5
-Chapter 9: Enhancing Applications with the Windows Community Toolkit
-Chapter 10: Modernizing Existing Win32 Applications with XAML Islands

▷Section 3: Build and Deploy on Windows and Beyond
-Chapter 11: Debugging WinUI Applications with Visual Studio
-Chapter 12: Hosting an ASP.NET Core Blazor Application in WinUI
-Chapter 13: Building, Releasing, and Monitoring Applications with Visual Studio App Center
-Chapter 14: Packaging and Deploying WinUI Applications
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▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Introduction to WinUI, examines the history of UI frameworks in Windows and the origins of WinUI. It also walks you through creating your very first WinUI 3.0 project in Visual Studio 2019.

- Chapter 2, Configuring the Development Environment and Creating the Project, introduces you to the project used throughout much of the book. The chapter explains the anatomy of a WinUI project and covers platform basics including the application life cycle and data binding.

- Chapter 3, MVVM for Maintainability and Testability, explains the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern, a design pattern that is fundamental to WinUI application development. You will also learn the basics of unit testing WinUI projects in this chapter.

- Chapter 4, Advanced MVVM Concepts, continues to examine MVVM concepts in WinUI by adding a dependency injection (DI) NuGet package and service classes for page navigation and data retrieval.

- Chapter 5, Exploring WinUI Controls, explores the controls available in WinUI 3.0 by introducing you to the XAML Controls Gallery application. This open source application helps developers discover controls with sample code that can be used in WinUI projects. You will then add a couple of new controls from the gallery to your project.

- Chapter 6, Leveraging Data and Services, expands upon the data services created in Chapter 4, Advanced MVVM Concepts, to add a SQLite data store for persisting user data in the sample application. Data validation concepts will also be introduced to ensure invalid data cannot be entered by users.

- Chapter 7, Fluent Design System for Windows Applications, covers Microsoft's crossplatform Fluent Design System for applications. The history and evolution of Windows design concepts will be explored. The chapter will also introduce the Fluent XAML Theme Editor for creating a custom UI theme for a WinUI application.

- Chapter 8, Building WinUI Applications with .NET 5, explains how to create a WinUI

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▶ Preface
WinUI 3.0 is Microsoft's first step toward a unified Windows development platform. This unification effort is called Project Reunion and is an attempt to bring UWP, WPF, and other desktop UI frameworks to one platform. WinUI allows developers to quickly build Windows applications with styles that adapt themselves to the platform. As the WinUI platform matures, developers will have the ability to target desktop Windows machines, Xbox, HoloLens, Surface Hub, and more.

Win32 application developers can also leverage WinUI controls to modernize their existing applications by using XAML Islands controls from the Windows Community Toolkit. This open source toolkit provides dozens of controls and other helper libraries for WinUI, UWP, and Win32 application developers. You will learn how to find the right controls for your applications and share them across multiple projects.

In this book, you will learn how to develop, debug, build, and deploy applications using Visual Studio and cloud tools from Microsoft Azure and GitHub. You will discover deployment options to get your WinUI application into the hands of consumer and enterprise Windows users. By the end of this book, you will have a foundational understanding of how to create, modernize, and distribute Windows applications with WinUI 3.0.

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저자(글) Alvin Ashcraft

Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer and developer community champion with over 25 years of experience in software development. Working primarily with Microsoft Windows, web, and cloud technologies, his career has focused primarily on the healthcare industry. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP 11 times, most recently as a Windows Dev MVP.Alvin works in the Philadelphia area for Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, as a principal software engineer. He is also a board member of the TechBash Foundation, where he helps organize the annual TechBash developer conference. He has previously worked for companies such as Oracle, Genzeon, CSC, and ITG Pathfinders.Originally from the Allentown, PA area, Alvin currently resides in West Grove, PA with his wife and three daughters.