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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.

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This book is for anyone who wants to develop Windows applications with a modern user experience (UX). If you are familiar with UWP and WPF and are looking to enhance your knowledge of Windows development and modernize existing apps, you will find this book useful. Hands-on experience with C# and .NET is expected but no prior knowledge of WinUI is required.

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Get up and running with WinUI and discover how it fits into the landscape of Project Reunion and Windows UI development

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Matt Eland Nov 18, 2023

In a past life I was a Windows desktop development specialist, loving WPF development. Since then I've not followed the Windows Desktop scene as closely, but Alvin's book brings me back. The second edition of WinUI 3 does a great job of giving an overview of WinUI development by building a sample app and discussing controls, data binding, MVVM, dependency injection, styling, and deployment of said application. It even ventures into unexpected territory with discussions on using UNO to make cross-platform apps using XAML and using WinUI to host Blazor user experiences. Bottom line: I found something useful in every chapter and it made me dream of developing for Windows once more.

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Daren May Apr 21, 2021

Although the title to this book falls foul of Microsoft deciding to refer to the framework as "WinUI 3" instead of including a version number (i.e. "WinUI 3.0"), the information is still very relevant. In addition, WinUI 3 has now shipped within Project Reunion 0.5 with production support for desktop apps - WinUI 3 on UWP remains in preview only.Overall, this book provides a great introduction into WinUI 3 and walks the reader through the construction and deployment of a WinUI 3 application.The first section introduces WinUI and its place as the latest UI framework for Windows developers. From there, the reader is guided through an approach to building an app from scratch. As well as discussing Win UI 3, various architectural practices such as the use of MVVM, Dependency Injection and services are also covered. Unit Testing is briefly mentioned, but not covered in any depth. If you are new to Windows Development, this section will get you comfortable with building simple applications.The second section introduces the Fluent Design System, building WinUI 3 desktop apps (which is now available with production support due to the release of Project Reunion 0.5), introduces the Windows Community Toolkit and then demonstrates how WinUI 3 XAML Islands can be used to incorporate modern UI elements in legacy applications built with Windows Forms or WPF. In terms of Fluent Design coverage, there is enough to get the reader started, with links to Microsoft's comprehensive documentation for further learning.The final section discusses approaches for debugging WinUI 3 applications, and working around limitations in the support for WinUI 3 in Visual Studio. For me, the chapter on hosting a Blazor Application within the WinUI 3 WebView2 seemed out of place. However, the chapters discussing Visual Studio App Center, and Packaging and Deploying are great additions.Overall, if you are new to Windows Development, or looking how to shift over to using WinUI 3, this a great book to start with.

Robert Weagle Aug 06, 2022

Not for older computers.

William A. Fuqua Aug 11, 2021

Before reading this book, I was pretty confused at the state of application development on Windows. There was WinForms on .NET 5, WPF, UWP, XAML islands, Project Reunion, Xamarin/MAUI, Blazor, and WinUI 2 and 3, each with their own set of tradeoffs.This book does a good job of not only covering WinUI, but also showing how the various technologies evolved and integrate. It shows how to write a well-architected, modern application in WinUI 3, and also how WinForms and WPF applications can opt into using WinUI features for iterative migration.The book starts out assuming very little knowledge of Windows application development; the first six chapters are focused on bringing developers up to speed on XAML (with compiled bindings), MVVM patterns, dependency injection, and general application structure. Even though I have some experience with WPF and UWP, I found these chapters useful to fill in the gaps of my self-taught knowledge (for example, I'd never heard of the Microsoft.Toolkit.Mvvm nuget package before).The final half of the book, chapters 7 through 14, were the most valuable and new to me. It covered good debugging techniques, static analysis, setting up continuous integration, crash reporting, and distributing/selling your app through the Microsoft Store, among other topics. This information can be harder to discover and piece together from other sources, and makes the book well worth it.

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