How to create superior experiences with WinUI and WPF
summary
Walks through concrete changes and measured results: copyable WinUI Gallery resources (type ramp, color brushes, spacing), adding Mica and a ready-made titlebar control, using ItemsView virtualizing layouts for smooth scrolling of a million photos, profiling with Windows Performance Analyzer plus the new XAML plugin, and shipping AOT that yields 50% startup time reduction and package size down to one‑eighth. Also shows WPF fluent theme lines, WinAppSDK notifications, share sheet integration, and code samples to drop into existing apps.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:18Superior app experiences
- 4:52Contoso Camera demo
- 6:20Fluent Design in WinUI
- 11:14Modernizing UI with Mica
- 14:01Title bar customization
- 17:11Collections with ItemsView
- 20:07ItemsView components
- 23:20Performance with virtualization
- 25:34Profiling performance with Windows Performance Toolkit
- 27:41Startup with AOT
- 29:28WPF Fluent theming
- 31:53Accent colors and dark mode
- 35:24Modern WPF controls
- 37:10Modern WPF features
- 38:15Notifications and share
- 41:27Summary
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