WinUI 3 C++ Controls – Basic Text Controls
In this lesson, we will start learning controls for WinUI 3 C++. WinUI C++ comes with an extensive library of built-in controls, and we will begin with fundamental text input …
>Create a 3×3 grid layout to learn the Grid control
Developers with prior WPF experience will be familiar with the Grid control; its behavior in WinUI is largely identical to WPF. In this lesson, we will create a 3×3 numeric …
Click items on the left navigation bar to load different pages
In the previous lesson, we finished implementing the left sidebar with a Frame control inside. When the main window launches, this Frame loads a default blank page automatically. However, clicking …
Left sidebar menu and main window page loading setup complete
The interface after running the app is shown below
Implement Button Click & Property Binding
In the previous lesson, we added a button in XAML and generated an event. Our first implementation was changing the button’s text upon clicking the button. First go back to …
Analyze Window Class & Implement Button Click Functionality
After readers upgrade VS 2022 to version 17.9.1 or newer, newly created WinUI 3 C++ projects come with a default sample containing a button. Clicking the button triggers backend logic …
Your First WinUI C++ Program Walkthrough
In the last lesson, we finished setting up WinUI C++ and created our first working app. Today, we’ll break down every part of this starter WinUI C++ project step by step.
Install WinUI C++ and Create Your First Project
This tutorial uses Visual Studio 2022 for development. You can also use the latest Visual Studio 2026 if you have access to it. We’re using the Community edition, which can be downloaded from the link below: