DiskInfo

A tool for viewing hard drive information with a modern UI design.

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Language

• 中文

Concept

Background

CrystalDiskInfo is one of the most famous disk health monitoring tools in the world. It is free and open source, and is still actively maintained.

This project aims at providing a mordern appearance for DiskInfo. The new design follow the guide of Fluent Design System，with flexible，adapting layout，and charming visual design.

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Solution Structure

DiskInfo
    \libs
        DiskInfoLib ---    C++/WinRT ports of the above DiskInfo project, to be consumed directly to UI layer (developing).
        DiskInfoTest ---       a library for testing DiskInfoLib.
        MockDiskInfo ---        Fake DiskInfoLib reference that provide sample data for UI layer test.
    DiskInfo ---               C#/WinUI 3 project that provide the UI layer of DiskInfo.

WinRT port

The DiskInfoLib is a C++/WinRT project transformed to be able to allowed to call Win32 APIs. It's basically using Visual Studio's Windows Runtime Component project template, but with additional macros defined and additional library paths added. In order to be consumed by the C# project (.NET6),

• add cs/winrt NuGet package.
• add a project reference to the WinRT component project, finally add a PropertyGroup tag in the csproj file.

<PropertyGroup>
    <CsWinRTIncludes>DiskInfoLibWinRT</CsWinRTIncludes>
    <CsWinRTGeneratedFilesDir>$(OutDir)</CsWinRTGeneratedFilesDir>
</PropertyGroup>

Known issues

• Debugging for winui3 under admin privilege is not fully working. For developments' convenience, it normally runs without admin previledges. (This will change when it's publish to store)
• More features coming!

Technology stack and pre-requsite to build

Technology Stack

Documents

• WinUI 3

• Windows Runtime

• Windows App SDK

Develop Environment

• Visual Studio 2022

• C++ Desktop Development

• Universal Windows Development

• .NET Desktop Development

• Windows SDK 22621

• C++ ATL for latest v143 build tools (x86 & x64)

• C++ MFC for latest v143 build tools (x86 & x64)

XAML Control Libraries

• WinUI 3

• Windows Community Toolkit

• Syncfusion WinUI Controls