2020.11.22

WinUI 3 Preview 3 dropped this week!

New Libraries

• Syncfusion WinUI - The Syncfusion WinUI toolkit includes feature-rich WinUI controls like DataGrid, Charts, TreeView, and more, that embodies Fluent Design for building modern and seamless Windows apps. [$]

New Tooling

• Visual Asset Generator - An app designed to make creating Icons and Visual Assets for UWP apps a breeze.

New Screencasts

All .NET Community Standups are listed on Microsoft .NET Community Standups.

• App Consult Insights - S02 E04 WinUI 3.0 Preview 3.0 - (November 19, 2020) - The WinUI team has just released a new and exciting preview of WinUI 3.0, the new UI framework to build Windows applications. In this short episode, Marc and Matteo shares some highlights of this new release, like the Intellisense support and XAML Hot Reload.

• App Development Community Standup: WinUI 3 Preview 3 release - (November 17, 2020) - Join Kevin Gallo and guests to learn about the new features in the WinUI 3 Preview 3 that are available for you to try in your app.

New Articles

• Announcing WinUI 3: Preview 3 - (November 17, 2020) - If you tuned in to this morning’s App Development Community Standup, you know that today we released WinUI 3 Preview 3.

• Uno Platform 3.3 – Day 0 support for WinUI 3 Preview 3, Android 11 - (November 17, 2020) - WinUI 3.0 Preview 3 is a big step towards shipping the final version of WinUI. We at Uno Platform team are happy to report that Uno Platform already works with the latest WinUI preview. Our sincerest thanks to WinUI team who keeps us posted on their progress and allows us to make modifications to Uno so that our joint developer base can use the latest and greatest bits right away.

• A lap around the Microsoft MVVM Toolkit - (November 16, 2020) - In this article we’ll walk through a UWP sample app to experiment with the features of the new Microsoft.Toolkit.Mvvm package that is part of the Microsoft Community Toolkit.

• Start and Restart Windows (UWP/WinUI) Applications on Windows Startup - (November 14, 2020) - A while ago Windows introduced a little-known feature that allows applications to automatically restart when Windows is restarted. However, rather than just look at this feature, which Windows app developer get for free, in this post we’re going to look at different options for starting and restarting a Windows application when Windows starts/restarts.