How to create a new window in UWP

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date: Feb 07, 2016
tags:
- C#
- UWP
language: English
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Some friends of mine asked me how to create a window in UWP just like WinForms or UWP, to make their app more desktop-like. Actually, it is pretty simple.

new window in UWP
new window in UWP

I cannot say this is difficult or simple. In order to open a new window, You need to use CoreApplication.CreateNewView() to generate the Window, or view:

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var currentAV = ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView();

await newAV.Dispatcher.RunAsync(
CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal,
async () =>
{
var newWindow = Window.Current;
var newAppView = ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView();newAppView.Title = title;  //The title of new windowvar frame = new Frame();
frame.Navigate(typeof(Page), Datatosend); //Navigation is here
newWindow.Content = frame;
newWindow.Activate();await ApplicationViewSwitcher.TryShowAsStandaloneAsync(
newAppView.Id,
ViewSizePreference.UseMinimum,
currentAV.Id,
ViewSizePreference.UseMinimum);
});

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