Making Progress with WinUI 3
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So I've been working on the client for my ad blocker for about six weeks, and I've been learning WinUI 3. Did you know that there is no native way to control the size of a top-level window? And you can't set a minimum size like in Forms. Yes, the platform is incomplete. Fortunately, there is a really good project named WinUIEx[^] that provides features that you'd expect to be in the framework. Like sizing windows and controlling the min, max and close buttons. Overall, it looks like an exciting way to build applications. Today, I'm trying the GridView control in hopes of getting it to display records from the database. I'd like to put in a good word for Pluralsight, too. Without one of their courses giving me a good visual overview of the platform, I never would have had the courage to tackle it. What's the last technology that was new to you?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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So I've been working on the client for my ad blocker for about six weeks, and I've been learning WinUI 3. Did you know that there is no native way to control the size of a top-level window? And you can't set a minimum size like in Forms. Yes, the platform is incomplete. Fortunately, there is a really good project named WinUIEx[^] that provides features that you'd expect to be in the framework. Like sizing windows and controlling the min, max and close buttons. Overall, it looks like an exciting way to build applications. Today, I'm trying the GridView control in hopes of getting it to display records from the database. I'd like to put in a good word for Pluralsight, too. Without one of their courses giving me a good visual overview of the platform, I never would have had the courage to tackle it. What's the last technology that was new to you?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
I'd like to put in a good word for Pluralsight, too. Without one of their courses giving me a good visual overview of the platform, I never would have had the courage to tackle it.
It's a great site. We even have a CPian or two that's been an instructor there.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
What's the last technology that was new to you?
You know. :-O
Jeremy Falcon
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So I've been working on the client for my ad blocker for about six weeks, and I've been learning WinUI 3. Did you know that there is no native way to control the size of a top-level window? And you can't set a minimum size like in Forms. Yes, the platform is incomplete. Fortunately, there is a really good project named WinUIEx[^] that provides features that you'd expect to be in the framework. Like sizing windows and controlling the min, max and close buttons. Overall, it looks like an exciting way to build applications. Today, I'm trying the GridView control in hopes of getting it to display records from the database. I'd like to put in a good word for Pluralsight, too. Without one of their courses giving me a good visual overview of the platform, I never would have had the courage to tackle it. What's the last technology that was new to you?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I'm also in a project looking for an UI solution. WinUI is not an option as it have to be multiplatform... Avalonia looks promising to me...
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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I'm also in a project looking for an UI solution. WinUI is not an option as it have to be multiplatform... Avalonia looks promising to me...
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
I've been working with the Uno platform[^] and I have to admit that I love it. The developers put a lot of effort into creating something that is high performance, and useful. The fact that I can target so many environments with it if I want is just cherry on a particularly exciting cake. My biggest problem with it, and it's not down to Uno itself, is the need to use workloads. I find workloads are just a pain in the proverbial, and these are a Microsoft thing, not an Uno thing.
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So I've been working on the client for my ad blocker for about six weeks, and I've been learning WinUI 3. Did you know that there is no native way to control the size of a top-level window? And you can't set a minimum size like in Forms. Yes, the platform is incomplete. Fortunately, there is a really good project named WinUIEx[^] that provides features that you'd expect to be in the framework. Like sizing windows and controlling the min, max and close buttons. Overall, it looks like an exciting way to build applications. Today, I'm trying the GridView control in hopes of getting it to display records from the database. I'd like to put in a good word for Pluralsight, too. Without one of their courses giving me a good visual overview of the platform, I never would have had the courage to tackle it. What's the last technology that was new to you?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
The last technology that was new to me was MAUI, one of our younger developers had developed an app with it and expected it to be built on our local TeamCity builder. So the builder had to be updated, which was a lot of fuss because of security measures, but after a days work the app could finally be built. I'm getting too old for all these newfangled things, why don't I just retire early :sigh:
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I've been working with the Uno platform[^] and I have to admit that I love it. The developers put a lot of effort into creating something that is high performance, and useful. The fact that I can target so many environments with it if I want is just cherry on a particularly exciting cake. My biggest problem with it, and it's not down to Uno itself, is the need to use workloads. I find workloads are just a pain in the proverbial, and these are a Microsoft thing, not an Uno thing.
Does it come with a free [deck](https://images.kaplanco.com/catalog/jumbo/92865\_r\_23.jpg)?
Jeremy Falcon
