Microsoft adds AI-assisted WinUI 3 development tools
Microsoft is promoting WinUI 3 with command-line project creation and simplified MSIX packaging and registration, allowing developers to create, build, and run native Windows apps without always relying on the Visual Studio IDE. The company is also adding WinUI-specific capabilities for AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot to help create interfaces, generate code, handle common development tasks, identify issues through code review, and support UI testing. Microsoft says some basic apps can be initially built in about 30 minutes with its tools and templates without installing Visual Studio, but the figure applies to a quick-start example and does not cover complex development and testing.
The initiative seeks to reduce the learning and tooling burden of native Windows development while integrating AI into the WinUI workflow. The report cautions that faster code generation does not guarantee sound architecture, security, performance, or quality, and that WinUI must also be sufficiently stable and mature to attract developers.
微软正在调整Windows 11的软件开发策略，希望借助人工智能降低原生Windows应用的开发门槛，让开发者更容易制作性能更好、界面更贴合系统设计的桌面软件。随着越来越多的应用采用Electron、WebView2等技术，将网页内容封装成桌面程序，Windows平台上出现了不少内存占用高、启动缓慢、系统集成能力有限的应用。微软如今希望通过原生开发工具与AI编程助手，扭转这一趋势。
Windows Latest在10月23日的报道中指出，微软正在推广WinUI 3，并提供更加简化的开发流程，让开发者无需依赖庞大的Visual Studio开发环境，也能创建、编译和运行原生Windows应用。微软的目标并不是简单禁止网页技术，而是让开发者在选择原生开发时，不再需要承担过去那样高的学习成本和复杂的构建流程。
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