Please provide a Getting Started tutorial for developers new to UWP

[Cross22]

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Documentation issue or request

Current behavior

Getting Started link goes to a general description of the Uno Platform, not a Getting Started example. There is a link to installation instructions but those are still very high level.

Expected behavior

Detailed step-by-step instructions on how to get a Uno application up & running. As another example from the QuickStart guide:
"Update to the latest nuget package named Uno.UI, make sure to check the pre-release box." <-- for UWP/C# developers this might be helpful, as a C++ engineer though I spent a considerable amount of time searching for the relevant settings (and then it still did not work). Screenshots are worth at least a 1000 words.

[weitzhandler]

Uno is essentially UWP. The advantage is that it can run on 3 more platforms.
Really what you need to learn is UWP, then, be aware to some features that are not yet implemented/supported on the other platforms, and avoid using them or implement them yourself.

But I agree elaborating the Getting Started guide and providing more templates (#443) would be very beneficial.

[Cross22]

Thank you for the link. It's not so much the UWP concepts that I am concerned about, but really the details of setting up the environment so it works with Uno.

[jeromelaban]

Thanks for your interest in Uno @Cross22! Indeed, the documentation was built assuming developers are coming from a .NET background (we've got to start somewhere 😊) and it may not be friendly to you yet.

That being said, if you've installed the visual studio vsix you should be good to go.

When you say it did not work, which problem did you get ?

[weitzhandler]

Whoa, I think this issue can be closed now.

[ghuntley]

Agreed, especially since the workshops from unoconf have been open-sourced -> https://github.com/unoplatform/workshops/tree/master/uno-bootcamp

GitHub

unoplatform/workshops

workshops, study guides and learning materials for the Uno Platform - unoplatform/workshops