Microsoft Toolkit 2.4.1-CODYQX4 Serial Key
Patrizia Leones
After many months of invigorating the Windows Community Toolkit with a multitude of improvements and features; we are happy to announce version 7.0 is available today! Made possible again with the support and contributions of our developer community.?
If you are new to the Toolkit, the Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks for building UWP and .NET apps for Windows 10. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation. You can download our Sample App playground to discover and try Toolkit components before getting started on a project.
This is one of the largest releases of the Toolkit ever as we embarked to optimize and streamline the Toolkit for the future. However, it also contains many breaking changes to pay attention to both around its underlying structure and code contracts. Please be sure to read our release notes here, some high-level overviews are provided below.
We have refactored many packages within the Toolkit. This was to help reduce pulling in extra dependencies for the whole package when only a small number of components required them. This has allowed us to reduce the application size footprint impact of the Toolkit in common scenarios by 80-90%.
As part of this journey, we have also improved our processes within the Toolkit itself adding more continuous integration testing to our pipeline, and we have a Wiki with details on how to get started contributing to the Toolkit!
The package targets .NET Standard so it can be used on any app platform: UWP, WPF, Xamarin, Uno Platform, and more; and on any runtime: .NET Native, .NET Core, .NET Framework, or Mono. It runs on all of them and provides a common API surface for all cases.
Not only do we have a powerful new AnimationBuilder class to help you create gorgeous and powerful composition animations within C#, but we have also exposed it to XAML as well. Look at what you can do below now without code-behind!
Now all your composition animations can be done with a nice C# API or in XAML just like our Implicit Animations Helpers that have been so widely loved in the past. Enjoy, and share your creations with #WindowsCommunityToolkit on Twitter.
The TabbedCommandBar is an app level navigation interface that delivers a flexible space to control commanding within your app. It provides a familiar experience found in many productivity apps and allows an app developer to group similar commands together. It also provides the ability to add contextual tabs for displaying options which may be only useful when a user is making specific changes within the app.
After discussions on the WinUI GitHub about revitalizing the ColorPicker control, the community stepped forward to envision a new experience for picking Colors. Robert developed a new version of ColorPicker for everyone to use and try. We hope to provide feedback and improvements based on this new experience to the platform team when they next refresh ColorPicker in the future.
The SwitchPresenter is a new way to layout and organize your XAML. It provides the equivalent of a switch statement from C# in XAML! It can make it easier to group elements together that are related to a scenario instead of getting them jumbled together with many Visibility bindings. Or you can use it to completely swap out a section of UI easily based on some other factor. Check out our example in our docs.
As you hopefully know, we have been shipping previews of the Toolkit that work for WinUI 3 alongside their preview releases. We have released a preview of the toolkit which works for Desktop apps with .NET on the Project Reunion 0.5 Preview released last week. Find out more details on how to try this out here.
Our plan will be to deprecate the UWP packages at a time in the future when we feel our community as a whole can migrate to WinUI 3 when it supports the features our existing UWP community knows and loves today. Until that time, we will plan to support our existing UWP developers first via our existing packages built on top of UWP + WinUI 2.x and ship parallel versions for WinUI 3. Therefore, each next toolkit release for UWP (e.g. 7.1) will have a corresponding version 7.1 which contains the same feature set but for WinUI 3 (outside of anything not currently supportable on WinUI 3 yet).
As a reminder, you can get started by following our docs.microsoft.com tutorial or preview the latest features by installing the Windows Community Toolkit Sample App from the Microsoft Store (it links to each doc page too). If you would like to contribute, please join us on GitHub and checkout our new Wiki! To follow the conversation on Twitter, use the #WindowsCommunityToolkit hashtag or join us in our UWP Community Discord channel!
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