Introducing the Windows App SDK
summary
Shows the Windows App SDK as a NuGet/Visual Studio Installer package that brings modern Windows APIs to WPF, WinForms, UWP and WinUI projects, currently at version 1.3 with 1.4 preview and ~2.3M package downloads. Demonstrates installation, adding WinUI 3, enabling notifications and WebView2 in a .NET 7 WinForms app, packaging with MSIX to provide app identity, and using compiled bindings (x:Bind), windowing and resource fallback. Demos run mostly successfully; notifications fail until MSIX identity is added.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction to desktop
- 1:27History of Windows SDK
- 6:34Speaker introduction
- 7:53What is the Windows App SDK
- 12:30SDK updates and features
- 13:49Introduction to WinUI
- 15:27WinUI project setup
- 21:34Handling app resources
- 26:38App activation techniques
- 31:33App instancing control
- 35:07Window management
- 41:14Data binding in WinUI
- 49:10Using XAML islands
- 52:37Deployment and packaging
- 59:58Conclusion
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