https://github.com/colinkiama/uwp-fast-track-template

Start making high-quality UWP apps quickly
https://github.com/colinkiama/uwp-fast-track-template

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Start making high-quality UWP apps quickly

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/colinkiama/uwp-fast-track-template
• Owner: colinkiama
• Created: 2020-12-20T22:12:26.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-05T09:36:06.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-14T13:44:32.794Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: quality, template, uwp, wct, win-ui, windows, windows-10
• Language: C#
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.6 MB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# UWP Fast Track Template

A UWP template that lets you start making high-quality apps quickly.

Available in Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ColinKiama.uwp-fast-track

You can also select "Use this template" and rename namespaces and files yourself.

![UWP Fast Track Template Screenshot](img/WinUI2Template.png)

## Overview

2 Projects:

- .Net Standard library

- UWP app with a NavigationView

### Features:

- Localisation preconfigured. 

- Multilingual App Toolkit enabled

- Basic MVVM Navigation setup

- Dependency Injection configured

- Includes Windows Community Toolkit and WinUI 2 package

## Initial Setup

1. In the UWP project, add a reference to the .Net Standard library project

2. Set the UWP Project as the default startup project

3. Change the build architecture type to a specific one

## Template Structure

This template is a UWP app with WinUI 2.4 installed and ready to use.

- MainView (Where a NavigationView for the whole app exists)

- HomeView (The first view displayed in the navigation view)

- Page1 (A secondary view that used to show how you can navigate between pages)

- SettingsView (Shows when you select the settings item on the NavigationView)

## Branches

| Branch Name | Description |

|-------------|----------- |

| master | Changes from the `runnable` branch used in the latest production release. |

| runnable | A runnable version of the template that will be exported in the `dev` branch. |

| dev | Takes the changes from the `runnable` branch and replaces the names with template parameters.|

## Making your own templates

Learn how to make your own templates here (It can save you a lot of time!): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/creating-custom-project-and-item-templates?view=vs-2019