Migrating from Silverlight to WinUI and Uno Platform Documentation

Silverlight will reach the end of support on October 12, 2021. As luck would have it, a new Windows UI framework is about to RTM in March 2021 – WinUI – the modern native UI platform of Windows. And with WinUI launch there is a renewed desire by C# and XAML developers to write single codebase applications for Windows and the Web.

Enter Uno Platform. Hello “Rich Internet Applications (RIA)” again!

There are a number of pages of Silverlight migration documentation to help you with migration – accompanying source code, techniques and considerations you need to make when migrating your Silverlight application.

Table of contents

• Silverlight to Uno Migration Introduction
• Create the Uno solution for UWP and WASM
• Considering navigation – comparing Silverlight and UWP navigation
• Reviewing the app startup – comparing Silverlight and UWP app lifecycle
• Migrating the home page XAML and styles – comparing XAML
• Switching to string resources – comparing the Silverlight and UWP approach to resources
• Dialogs and errors – Silverlight ChildWindow to UWP ContentDialog and console logging
• Data access services – high-level review of alternatives to WCF RIA Services, data and authentication
• Client Authentication – securing access to data APIs
• Implementing a singleton token service – pattern for implementing singletons and creating a token service to secure data APIs
• Implementing an identity service client – implementing an authentication service
• Migrating the authentication UI – migrating the Silverlight login UI, alternative to Silverlight DataForm
• Integrating authentication and navigation – WIP – will migrate the role check before navigating
• Implement the time entry service – WIP – will implement the Time Entry Service client
• Migrating the time entry UI – WIP – will look at alternatives to the Silverlight DataGrid
• Wrap-up – WIP – will summarize the key migration activities
• The TimeEntry Sample apps – overview of sample apps and build instructions
• Useful resources

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