CsWinRT v1.5.0-prerelease.220124.4

Release Notes

This is a prerelease version of C#/WinRT focused on performance improvements to the runtime and projection code. The preview Windows SDK packages below can be consumed by setting the following property in your C# project file:

<WindowsSdkPackageVersion>10.0.xxxxx.23-preview</WindowsSdkPackageVersion

C#/WinRT package:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.CsWinRT/1.5.0-prerelease.220124.4

.NET Windows SDK targeting packages:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.Ref/10.0.22000.23-preview
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.Ref/10.0.20348.23-preview
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.Ref/10.0.19041.23-preview
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.Ref/10.0.18362.23-preview
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.Ref/10.0.17763.23-preview

Breaking changes

This version of C#/WinRT includes AssemblyVersion changes in both the runtime and generated Windows SDK projection assemblies:

• WinRT.Runtime.dll: AssemblyVersion incremented from 1.4.0.0 to 1.5.0.0
• Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.dll: AssemblyVersion incremented from 10.0.xxxxx.22 to 10.0.xxxxx.23

The impact of the AssemblyVersion changes is that apps may need to update to a later version of the .NET SDK when consuming components/projections generated by this version of C#/WinRT.

Changes:

• c90d2e3 Increment assembly version due to new APIs added. (#1086)
• 8dda44d Fix warnings and namespace conflicts in embedded scenario (#1084)
• 0041d18 Reduce # of allocated objects (#1081)
• 38209f8 Improvements to nullable / boxing (#1063)
• 0b7b73f Control ADO-Maestro job using variable (#1083)
• d60484d ADO Pipeline Variables (#1080)
• bfd6846 Generic CreateMarshaler (#1079)
• 3bf2eaa Reduce allocations for generated constructors (#1075)
• e78db0e Remove idic usage from manual projections (#1068)
• 14d7c3a Fixx issue when CsWinRTInputs contains multiple items and the timestamp picks the last item instead of the most recent. (#1077)

See More

• d1642c8 Static YML build pipeline (#1065)
• 664e218 document vs issue in NetProjectionSample (#1057)
• 31a191d Update embedded samples to 1.4.1 (#1052)
• b216a38 Update the projection sample to .NET 6 (#1054)
• 9ad6e66 Mark typed sealed where possible (#1050)

This list of changes was auto generated.