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.

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