Is Microsoft team still working on WinUI 3? Not yet ready?

Ihandler2 26 Reputation points
2022-06-09T09:16:37.187+00:00

For working on UWP, WPF, WinForm, we can easily to install the packages and run directly from Visual Studio (e.g. VS 2019).

However, for developing WinUI 3, there are a number of steps to do, in order to get into the WinUI 3 development environment and it looks like team at Microsoft is still working on it and not yet ready to release the full version out, even if we use Visual Studio 2022.

Anyone knows when we can actually use WinUI 3 to develop desktop applications? Thx !

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  1. Ken Tucker 5,846 Reputation points
    2022-06-10T00:50:06.503+00:00

    WinUI 3 has been released it is called the Windows App sdk. Version 1.1 was released on June 3, 2022

    https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2022/06/03/whats-new-in-windows-app-sdk-1-1/

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  2. Castorix31 80,951 Reputation points
    2022-06-10T05:41:00.637+00:00

    Just follow MSDN docs, like Create your first WinUI 3 project
    And you can see the WinUI 3 Gallery for samples with most of XAML controls

    The problem is that even the last version has still many bugs...

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  3. Karen Payne MVP 34,936 Reputation points
    2022-06-10T06:50:30.063+00:00

    I've been watching the MAUI Microsoft team tweeks on Twitter and would say go ahead and play but not for writing an application. Since the product has not matured yet expect down the road many breaking changes.

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