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Gleb Khmyznikov 725535b760 [DevDocs] More content and restructure (#40165 )

## Summary of the Pull Request
Accumulated information from internal transition about the modules
development, and reworked it to be added in dev docs. Also the dev docs
intself was restructured to be more organized. New pages was
verified by transition team.

## PR Checklist
- [x] **Dev docs:** Added/updated

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Co-authored-by: Zhaopeng Wang (from Dev Box) <zhaopengwang@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Hao Liu <liuhao3418@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Peiyao Zhao <105847726+zhaopy536@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mengyuan <162882040+chenmy77@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: zhaopeng wang <33367956+wang563681252@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jaylyn Barbee <51131738+Jaylyn-Barbee@users.noreply.github.com>

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UI Architecture

The UI code is distributed between two projects: PowerToys.Settings and Settings.UI. PowerToys.Settings is a Windows App Sdk .net Unpackaged application. It contains the views for base navigation and modules. Parent display window and corresponding code is present in MainWindow.xaml. Fig 1 provides a description of the UI controls hierarchy and each of the controls have been summarized below :

ShellPage.xaml is a WinUI control, consisting of a side navigation panel with an icon for each module. Clicking on a module icon loads the corresponding setting.json file and displays the data in the UI.

Fig 1: UI Architecture for settingsv2

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