VijayAnand.WinUITemplates 2.0.0

CLI Project and Item Templates for developing WinUI 3 based Windows Desktop Apps

CLI project template for developing WinUI 3 App and Class Library and is named as winui and winuilib respectively.

Both of the project templates takes the target framework as an input parameter, can be specified with --framework / -f.

And the supported values are:

• net6.0
• net7.0 (the default value)
• net8.0

CLI item template for WinUI 3 Page, UserControl, and Window and is named as winui-page, winui-usercontrol, and winui-window respectively.

To install the template NuGet package, use the below .NET CLI command:

dotnet new install VijayAnand.WinUITemplates

If you've already installed this package, then it can be updated to the latest version with the below command:

dotnet new update --check-only

dotnet new update

Use the below .NET CLI command to create the projects out these template:

App:

dotnet new winui -n MyApp

dotnet new winui -f net8.0 -n MyApp

Library:

dotnet new winuilib -n MyLib

dotnet new winuilib -f net8.0 -n MyLib

Both the project templates take the below optional parameter to include the officially supported CommunityToolkit.Mvvm NuGet package.

• -imt | --include-mvvm-toolkit - Default value is false

dotnet new winui -n MyApp -imt

dotnet new winuilib -n MyLib -imt

Use the below .NET CLI command to create the items out these template:

All of these item templates take two parameters:

• -n | --name - Name of the item
• -na | --namespace - Namespace for the item being created

Note: While working with .NET 7 or higher SDK, the namespace parameter in short notation needs to be prefixed with -p: and hence this need to be mentioned as -p:na.

Page:

dotnet new winui-page -n OrderPage -na MyApp.Pages

UserControl:

dotnet new winui-usercontrol -n CardView -na MyApp.Views

Window:

dotnet new winui-window -n MainWindow -na MyApp