A modern Windows desktop podcast player built with WinUI3 and .NET 9.0.

• 🎧 RSS Feed Parsing: Automatically fetch and parse podcast RSS feeds
• ▶️ Media Playback: Play podcast episodes with pause/resume support
• 💾 Smart Caching: Efficient episode caching with configurable expiry
• 📥 Downloads: Download episodes for offline listening
• 🎨 Modern UI: Clean WinUI3 interface following Windows design guidelines
• 🔄 Background Updates: Automatic feed refresh with manual override

This project includes a complete dev container setup for instant development:

1. Prerequisites

   • Visual Studio Code
   • Docker Desktop (for local dev containers)
   • OR use GitHub Codespaces (no local setup needed!)

2. Get Started

   git clone https://github.com/cascadiacollections/smodr-winui3.git
   code smodr-winui3

3. Open in Container

   • VS Code will prompt to "Reopen in Container"
   • Click the button and wait for setup to complete
   • Start coding with all tools and extensions ready!

Note: The dev container is perfect for code editing and analysis. To run the WinUI3 app, you'll need Windows.

See DEVELOPMENT.md for detailed Windows setup instructions.

smodr/
├── App.xaml(.cs)           # Application entry point
├── MainWindow.xaml(.cs)    # Main application window
├── Models/                 # Data models
├── ViewModels/             # MVVM ViewModels
├── Services/               # Business logic
│   ├── AudioService.cs     # Media playback
│   ├── DataService.cs      # RSS feed handling
│   ├── CacheService.cs     # Episode caching
│   └── DownloadService.cs  # Download management
├── Converters/             # XAML value converters
└── Assets/                 # Application resources

• Framework: .NET 9.0
• UI: WinUI3 (Windows App SDK)
• Architecture: MVVM
• Dependencies:
  • CommunityToolkit.Mvvm
  • System.ServiceModel.Syndication

• VS Code: Pre-configured settings, tasks, and extensions in .vscode/
• Code Style: Enforced via .editorconfig
• GitHub Copilot: Custom instructions in .github/copilot-instructions.md
• Dev Container: Complete containerized dev environment
• GitHub Actions: Automated builds, testing, and security scanning
• Dependabot: Automated dependency updates

For complete development setup instructions, see DEVELOPMENT.md.

# Restore dependencies
dotnet restore

# Build
dotnet build

# Clean
dotnet clean

• Development Setup - Complete setup guide
• Copilot Instructions - AI assistance guidelines

• Windows 10 version 1809 (build 17763) or later
• .NET 9.0 Runtime
• Windows App SDK Runtime

• .NET 9.0 SDK
• Visual Studio 2022 (with WinUI3 workload) OR
• VS Code with Dev Container (any OS for editing)

Contributions are welcome! Please:

1. Use the dev container or GitHub Codespaces for consistent environment
2. Follow the code style defined in .editorconfig
3. Maintain MVVM architecture patterns
4. Test changes on Windows before submitting
5. Review our Contributing Guide
6. Check our Security Policy for security-related contributions

• 💬 Discussions - Ask questions, share ideas
• 🐛 Issues - Report bugs, request features
• 🔒 Security - Report security vulnerabilities

See LICENSE.txt for details.

• WinUI3 Documentation
• Windows App SDK
• .NET 9.0 Documentation