.NET Big Picture: Front-End and UI Development

Explore the wide range of choices available for developers building a user interface (UI) on the .NET Framework.

Introduction

• Explore the .NET UI platforms
• Get the best out of this course

1. Big Picture

• Create UI for web and desktop
• Built upon .NET
• UI markup languages (HTML and XAML)

2. Desktop Development

• Desktop development overview
• Layers of APIs
• Explore WinForms
• Rapid App Development with WinForms
• Explore WPF
• WPF example
• Explore UWP
• Windows App SDK: Project Reunion
• WinUI, the next UI layer
• WinUI in action: XAML Controls Gallery
• AppContainer deployment with MSIX
• Third-party UI frameworks

3. Web Development and ASP.NET

• Web development overview
• ASP.NET app models
• ASP.NET Web Forms
• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET Razor Pages
• ASP.NET Core Blazor WebAssembly
• ASP.NET Blazor example
• Say goodbye to Silverlight

4. Cross-Platform and Mobile Development

• Cross-platform overview
• .NET MAUI, the newest cross-platform
• Third-party frameworks

5. Graphics Technology

• Overview
• Explore GDI+
• Explore DirectX
• Explore Unity game engine

Conclusion

• Next steps