Articles by KENNETH

Build Cross-Platform applications with WinUI and Uno Platform Uno Platform is a free and open-source platform aiming to take WinUI applications built with C# and XAML everywhere.   If you are not familiar with WinUI, it is the native UX platform for building Windows applications – you can learn more about it on the WinUI website. With Uno Platform you can bring your WinUI applications everywhere that WinUI does not natively run – Web/WebAssembly, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android. Uno Platform is Open Source (Apache 2.0) and available on GitHub.  This tutorial will walk through both setting up your Visual Studio environment for WinUI and Uno Platform development as well as building a simple same-codebase application which uses WinUI InfoBar control and runs on Windows, WebAssembly and Android. Upon completion of this 5-minute tutorial your sample application will look like this in both “light” and “dark” modes:  Prerequisites If you have not prepared your dev environment for Uno Platform app development yet, the Setting up the Environment page in the Uno Platform docs will guide you through installing all the prerequisites.  Tutorial: WinUI InfoBar running Cross-Platform  Open Visual Studio and click on Create a new project. Search for the Uno templates, select the Cross-Platform App (Uno Platform) then click Next. Name your app ‘UnoLovesWinUI’ then click Next.  Once the [ more… ]