Announcing Windows Template Studio in UWP

Today, we are pleased to announce your file → The next evolution of the new universal Windows Platform application in Visual Studio- windows template Studio . Windows Template Studio addresses a top-notch community issue in the developer survey, making it easier and providing guidance for creating new projects for the universal Windows platform. In this article, we want to take a few minutes to introduce Windows Template Studio and show you how it works.

Windows Template Studio uses a development-friendly wizard to bring your UWP apps to F5 without any time, bringing together the pages, frameworks, and features you need??。 Our wizards are developed in four steps to quickly build a new UWP application:

1. Project type: Choose between a standard layout and a pre-defined control.
2. Frame selection : Use internal and third-party support to select the structure of your UWP application.
3. App page: Select which pages of the application you want to create.
4. App Features: easy to add functions such as background tasks.

In addition, we are open source Windows template Studios, which welcome UWP developers to further drive the power generation engine, add additional features and application pages, improve implementation best practices and patterns, and encourage UWP developers to develop their own engines. The specific needs of their company.

Windows Template Studio is the evolution of Windows APP Studio. App Studio is a free online application creation tool that allows developers and enthusiasts to quickly build windows generic applications. We are learning from the code generation engine and existing wizards to provide a solid foundation for the code generation and developer experience in Windows Template Studio.

Around the Windows template Studio

We started Windows Template Studio by creating a new UWP Application project. in the visual Studio 2017 ' New Project ' dialog box, select Visual C #→ windows universal node.

here, you will see the Windows Template Studio project. Select the project type, enter a new UWP application name, and then click OK. Windows Template Studio now launches and walks you through the UWP Application Creation Wizard.

Step 1: Project type

First select a project type. We have started using the most common types, such as: blank, Navigation Pane and pivot and tab.

Step 2: Framework

After you select a project type, you need to select a frame. You can choose from Code BEHIND,MVVM Basic or the very popular MVVM light .

3rd step: page and App life cycle features

Once you've selected the project and framework, it's time to add pages and features. We have added the most common pages, such as master/detail, settings and Web views. You can also easily add application lifecycle features, such as suspend and resume, and background work and user interaction.

Best practices and patterns

to wrap all of these, with a few simple clicks, you can connect applications using the Navigation Pane, the MVVM light Framework, the master Details page, and some features such as suspend and resume and azure hub notifications. You save time and your application adheres to our design guidelines and industry-standard patterns and practices.

The following is an example of an application built using Windows Template Studio. again, we provide the foundation for a great UWP app and let you F5 a few clicks.

Start today

Windows Template Studio v1.0 is now available and you can update it every 6 weeks. We also have a very simple usage note for the VS extension installed on our GitHub page . the currently open Roadmap is available, and we encourage you to review the UWP developer session tips and tricks shown in build for more information. You can start creating your own application in three easy steps:

1. Download Visual Studio and select Universal Windows platform development under workloads.
2. by starting from Visual Studio Gallery Download the VSIX to install Visual Studio Extension for Windows Template Studio .
3. once installed, open visual Studio 2017 and select file → new project →c#→ windows generic, you should see the new template that you just added.

The best... Windows Template Studio is open source

Windows Template Studio It's completely open source and can now be use on GitHub . the project is community-led and we are delighted to be able to contribute from the following community members: Matt Lacey and James Croft. We are happy to contribute to your project and encourage you to read our next contribution guidelines .

In the spirit of transparency, the next version of the road map always available . If you want to report or share the error of a feature request, add it to our issue tracker .

Announcing Windows Template Studio in UWP