Learn Windows App Development with WinUI 3.0 Tutorial

Last Updated July 25th, 2023

Cook up a Storm with WinUI 3.0

Welcome to our coding adventure! Just like baking a cake, coding requires the right tools and the perfect ingredients. WinUI 3.0 and Visual Studio are our trusty utensils and high-tech kitchen, enabling us to design beautiful user interfaces and debug our code flawlessly in this Windows app development tutorial.

Explore the Benefits of WinUI 3 for Windows App Development

This is a WinUI tutorial for beginners and experienced programmers alike. We'll start from scratch, guiding you through each step to create a fully functional Windows app. Just like mastering cooking, you'll gain new skills, confidence, and the ability to whip up amazing things with WinUI 3.0 and Visual Studio, also utilizing XAML and relevant binding for Windows apps. Don't worry if you encounter mishaps along the way; we're here to help you through every hurdle. So, put on your programmer's hat and let's begin this exciting journey into building modern Windows apps with WinUI!

Table of Contents

WinUI 3.0 Tutorial for Beginners

• 1. Introduction to a World of Problems
• 2. Setting Up the Stage
• 3. Learning the Language: XAML and C#
• 4. Time to Take the Time
• 5. The Sound of Coding

DirectX 11 with WinUI Tutorials

• 1. Setting up DirectX 11 Devices
• 2. Setting Up a Swap Chain
• 3. Shaders And Buffers
• 4. Ready To Draw
• 5. Debugging
• 6. Loading a Model
• 7. Prepping For a Camera
• 8. Camera And Transformations
• 9. Prepping For Shading
• 10. Phong Lighting

DirectX Paint with WinUI Tutorials

• 1. DirectX Paint
• 2. 2D Texture
• 3. Drawing Instances
• 4. Merging Down
• 5. Drawing Layers
• The Power of Pixel Shaders in DirectX 11
• Combining Pixel Colors with Blend State

Other Tutorials

• Taming Your Code with MVVM
• The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
• Dependency Injection: Managing Dependencies
• The Power of Factories in Programming
• Understanding INotifyPropertyChanged
• Launching Your Apps Outside Microsoft Store
• Breaking Away from Clean Code for Performance
• Shorter Compile Times with Efficient Use of C#

Resources

• PlantNanny GitHub repository
• DirectX 11 with WinUI GitHub repository