WinUI documentation - Development

Uno Platform's API is derived from the WinUI application framework. Microsoft provides extensive documentation for WinUI. Rather than duplicate all of it, here we list selected entries that are especially applicable to Uno Platform developers.

The resources below explain many aspects of the API shared by WinUI and Uno Platform in more detail, including layouting, styling and templating, data binding, and more.

Layouting

• Basic layout concepts
• Alignment, margin, padding
• Panels
• Custom panels
• Transforms

Drawing

• Images and image brushes
• Shapes
• Path geometry syntax
• Brushes (note: see Brush types supported on non-Windows platforms)

Styling and templating

• Styling
• Control templates
• XAML resources and ResourceDictionary
• Theme resources

Controls

• Control basics
• Navigation view
• Tab view

Lists

• Item templating
• Data template selection
• Selection modes
• Filtering lists

Animations

• Storyboarded animations

Events and pointer input

• Pointer input
• Events and routed events

Data binding and dependency properties

• Data binding overview
• Data binding in depth
• x:Bind to functions
• Dependency properties overview
• Custom dependency properties
• Attached properties overview
• Custom attached properties
• MVVM architecture

XAML

• XAML overview
• XAML syntax and terminology
• Property path syntax rules
• XAML namespaces

XAML attributes

• x:Class attribute
• x:DefaultBindMode attribute
• x:FieldModifier attribute
• x:Key attribute
• x:Load attribute
• x:Name attribute
• x:Phase attribute
• x:Uid directive

Markup extensions

• x:Bind markup extension
• {Binding} markup extension
• CustomResource markup extension
• RelativeSource markup extension
• StaticResource markup extension
• TemplateBinding markup extension
• ThemeResource markup extension