WinUI on DVLUP

Use Windows AI APIs to Your App in 10 Minutes

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

There has been a lot of news around generative AI and LLMs. As a traditional client app developer you might have wanted to add this capability to your app, but there’s usually something that is a roadblock… you don’t want to learn something new right now, you don’t want to pay for a cloud service, or just don’t have the time to invest in that one app.

These excuses are hard to justify now you have the Windows AI APIs in the WinApp SDK; it’s all available on-device and can be done in a few lines of code.

Trusted Signing

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Say goodbye to managing PFX files and problems code signing your apps. Over the past year or so, I’ve been working with Microsoft to test a service that lets you sign your code using an HSM-backed private key. This means your identity is verified by Microsoft, and you can sign all your stuff with a simple API call!

Azure Trusted Signing

I have a real-world app where I code sign the app and appinstaller automatically. I walk you through how that is done so you can copy it, but first I should step back and explain what the service is.

Mica or Acrylic with WinUI and .NET MAUI

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

When using .NET MAUI, we have some great capabilities to affect the way the native platform works. We can take advantage of this part of lifecycle to check if:

Is the runtime platform is Windows?
First attempt to use Mica, if the user’s device supports it (Windows 11).
If it doesn’t support Mica, then we try to use Acrylic.

Here’s what the end result looks like in your MauiProgram.cs code, nice and clean thanks to using lifecycle builder extension methods.