WinAppSDK 1.7 Plans #4710
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Ability to pick WinUI3 / WindowsAppSDK app as a Kiosk app is a gap for me. Easy to do with UWP apps. Not possible with WinUI3 / WindowsAppSDK via Windows Settings. |
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This. As I approach finishing a kiosk mode for my in-production app I have no easy way to set up a kiosk as I did with the UWP app it is replacing. Very frustrating. Packaged Winui3 apps should have same single-app support as UWP apps. |
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Are there plans to stabilise the Compositor and Content Experimental APIs that have been in preview for some time? Also are there plans to make it possible to render with DWriteCore in D2D or Win2D? |
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I had posted a sample with DWriteCore/Direct2D (WinUI3_SwapChainPanel_DWriteCore) |
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As part of windowing improvements, we would really love to see a |
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Exactly what in my mind and about to log as a request. It's hard to keep track of the list of Windows. And a property to know the current Active Window too. |
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We need to set the app as owner of a new application window, to make it modal to avoid |
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Hi WinUI team, from my point of view (and my customers' point of view), you should implement input validation. That feature is crucial when deciding to use WinUI for line-of-business apps. Without input validation, the decision is usually against WinUI. Here is the corresponding issue: microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#179 |
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Lack of validation in WinUI is a black stain on WinUI's forhead. Input validation is a crucial building block of a UI framwork. |
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This one from the 1.6 plans Mike! @codendone.
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Can you transcribe that or link to it? Reading that image is difficult. |
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Yes of course! @riverar The original post I hope this message finds you well. As I explore the capabilities of WinAppSDK, I've identified a usability concern related to ContentDialogs, especially when utilized for data entry. Due to the fixed positioning, the inability to drag and reposition these dialogs limits their flexibility and prevents users from viewing the content beneath them. Best regards, Thank You! 😄 @codendone Answer Thanks for your feedback, @horaciodiez. Yes, improved dialog capabilities, including those you mention, is something we'd like to make easier and maybe even default. |
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Sweet, thanks! |
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Another option (which may be preferrable in some cases) is the possibility to create a "modal" Window, so that the user can interact only with the new Modal Windows, until it is closed. This type of window should appear just like any other window (so, it is very different appearance from ContentDialog). An example is provided by Visual Studio: the Options Window behavior is what I would get. I had tried to build it, but no success (here the details). |
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Implement a set of pickers with capabilities like those in Windows.Storage.Pickers, but are actually usable in appcontainers and when running as administrator. |
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If I get it right, it is this issue: dotnet/maui#23787 (comment) and that's the one issue that prevents us from moving to use the unpackaged mode for our app (@jonathanpeppers had the same experience). Note that MAUI app on Windows will use the unpackaged mode by default in .NET 9+. tl;dr: Unpackaged MAUI apps crash when one opens a file picker and the user is logged in as administrator (!). |
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I can't upvote this enough: #2504 |
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I hope to see the TitleBar in the next version 1.6.1 |
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I missed the last part of the call, but do I see a WinUI vs designer coming ? |
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Yes |
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No news there, but Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) is exploring the capability. |
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The designer needs to be top priority if WinUI3 is to replace Winforms! |
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I'd love to see you guys actually focus on clearing the backlog of bugs. You purged thousands of issues people had put time into diagnosing and documenting and I can see the same thing happening again. You guys are leagues behind AppKit/UiKit and even Android feels less buggy than WinUI. Focus on paying down some of the bugs rather than shiny things. Also it would be great to see input validation addressed (microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#179), it's a huge issue to port a large LOB from WPF without this. |
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Add native BlazorWebView control for WinUI. There is support for WinForms and WPF, why not WinUI? Current workaround via MAUI embedding is definitely an overhead. Adds too many dependencies for a single control. |
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Agree. Biggest oversight from MS not to support BlazorWebView in WinUI as it will immediate help unifying the WinUI ecosystem with Blazor making it more attractive to invest. |
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Fix Not Implemented Exception in UWP for Image.Resize. Multiple errors trying to Publish an app to UWP that references a MAUI Class Library. |
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@codendone what happened to UWP-like "Smooth App Resize" feature/(microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#5148, microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#2506) that were previously part of WASDK 1.7 roadmap?
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Please fix this NumberBox issues like false rounding floating point numbers and implement the exponential notation. |
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And let us open a file dialog at a custom folder, not only at downloads, pictures.. |
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The thing is, there are dialogs that allow you to set this. Both the Common Dialog Box library and the Common Item Dialog both allow you to set this. While I linked to the C++ documentation, .NET wraps the Common Dialog Box library in its dialog library. |
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@DarranRowe I am using WinApp SDK with winrt/c++. I tried this Common Item Dialog and this fixes the start path. But sure, I don't want to use this old win32 api Stuff. |
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Can we have an ability to delay the registration of appinstaller and delay the de-registration of removals of msix packages from the system if the packages are in use? |
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When Win2d full support for WinUi3 will be ready? |
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What are you missing? |
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Interop with DirectX. No memory leaks. Performence etc.. |
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I only had as issue with a meamory leak what i colud solve usinge the CanvasControl function Device().Trim(); |
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Is there an estimated month for the 1.7 release? |
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Isn't it described here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/windows-app-sdk/release-channels? |
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February+- |
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I think even before 1.7 it is extremely crucial to address #4480 - probably something Partner Center team needs to handle - not sure who to contact about it. Can you please help? @chigy |
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@MartinZikmund , Thank you for the ping. We have folks looking at it and they are engaged in the #4480 . |
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It seems that Windows SDK BuildTools 26100.1 solves some issue around publishing. Is there any announcement of this? While it technically belongs to the native Windows SDK, it should also be announced at WinUI and WASDK since it's a crucial dependency and you are the crucial user of it. |
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Is the latest SDK installed with the VS2022 updates? If not, I can install it here Thanks. |
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The latest Windows SDK isn't automatically installed with Visual Studio 17.11, but it is an option. For whether installing the SDK separately allows Visual Studio to detect it. It does. Visual Studio looks in the registry for installed versions. However, the build tools that @huoyaoyuan is referring to is a NuGet package that the Windows App SDK depends upon. You would need to update this NuGet package to at least 10.0.26100.0. |
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Tried with the latest SDK. "Payload contains two or more files with the same destination path" |
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This doesn't have anything with the Windows SDK tools themselves. |
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Thank you for your response.
I cannot see any dups in the appxrecipe file. Thank you |
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The most important thing to me at the moment is validation. There are multiple threads here in GitHub discussing it, and it made a brief appearance in one of the experimental releases (but I could never get it to work) before disappearing again. |
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Inotifydataerrorinfo is used in communitytolkit, in wpf, in avalonia, in system.componentmodel.dataannotations and in others software/frameworks/controls... Using it is good for code reuse and can be better to integration with existing software / libraryes. May language "repimboca of parafuseta" be better than c# but we will not change c# bacause it is well stabilished. Same to inotifydataerrorinfo. |
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Microsoft has 230 000 employees, so I think that limited capacity is not a problem and it's not the reason to skip RnD step simply copy-pasting things. |
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Then you can stay on .Net Framework and WPF, why do anything at all? Let's just close this project then, because we already have everything we could ever dream of. |
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Not only stay on .net framework, but go tô future frameworks like uno and avalonia that also uses inotifydataerrorinfo. May be you think abandon c# and go to flutter because it is "future"? I prefer old c# and stabilished paterns and interfaces that dont prevent inovation . |
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I don't understand why you are trying to attribute some Flutter to me. The problem with INotifyDataErrorInfo in Avalonia and Uno arose exactly because of such reasoning as yours - they decided to continue supporting a poorly usable interface for the sake of backward compatibility. If this problem is not fixed, then in the future all frameworks including Avalonia and Uno will still lack a normal validation mechanism. |
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Setting |
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If we check this comment microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#4474 (comment) and the source code at https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/main/src/dxaml/xcp/dxaml/lib/FrameworkApplication_Partial.cpp#L988, it could be as easy as removing 4 lines of code. |
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Are you not concerned about this: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/35c590bb28841eb9d466624bb828c78b939d4312/src/dxaml/xcp/dxaml/lib/FrameworkApplication_Partial.cpp#L993-L1029 :)) |
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@MartyIX Maybe a bit... 😅 But I also checked the code at https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/main/src/dxaml/xcp/components/theming/FrameworkTheming.cpp and for me it looks like the code there is getting called every time the system theme changes anyways. So I hope the huge comment is just about legacy Windows 8 stuff... If I would be able to compile the WindowsAppSDK myself, I would of course try out, but... :/ |
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OK, so I set a C++ breakpoint at |
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Agree with @knightmeister and would like to express my support for prioritizing a release focused on resolving bugs rather than implementing new features. If I may highlight one critical issue that I consider almost a blocker, it would be the memory leak in x I am unsure where the responsibility for addressing this issue lies (if WindowsAppSDK team or another one), but having a significant memory leak persist for more than two years without proper communication with the community is quite concerning. It would be greatly appreciated if this could be given the attention it deserves. |
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Hi @codendone
I was waiting for the title bar control in update 1.6.1, but it didn't happen. Can you confirm if we will see it in the next update 1.6.2 or not? Some of my projects have been put on hold because of this. |
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We’ve taken a step back to ensure we deliver TitleBar with the right APIs and quality. This will include a public TitleBar spec review process starting soon (following the process at https://aka.ms/winappsdk/api-specs-review). The latest expectation is that the control won’t be ready to be stable until the 1.7 stable release to provide sufficient time to review and properly process feedback from the community. |
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Please resolve TextBox selection is broken when there are multiple lines, which negatively impacts my daily workflow. The bug was introduced going from 1.5 -> 1.6. |
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Same for Rich Edit Box |
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I would love to see an MDI Control that lets you organize documents and tool windows like in Visual Studio! This is the only feature that is missing for me to make the transition from WPF. |
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We really need the APIs for XAML Window (such as min/max width and height). I think that would be awesome to have so we no longer need to rely on third party but great libraries, like @dotMorten's one. This would improve the overall user experience. And please fix the staggering animations: microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#8879 |
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What do you mean by "very annoying way" ? With UXTheme ? |
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By annoying I mean that the functions are undocumented. |
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I see that most of the features are UI related. What about for instance working and usable support for background tasks. There are currently possibilities for InProc and OOP background tasks but with serious limitations like:
Another suggestion: Support for an Uninstall task. If we have that then we could cleanup resources when an app/package is being uninstalled. |
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Big agree for the self-contained background task scenario, see microsoft/CsWinRT#1141. |
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Something like Uninstall/Reset/Repair Tasks #2779 ? |
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Indeed, that is exactly what I am looking for. |
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Please resolve microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#2508 |
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Can you update the Roadmap please - it still says 1.6 will be the next release https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/blob/main/docs/roadmap.md |
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Good point. Actually, what did they mean with „ Enhancing the developer experience including IntelliSense and x:Bind improvements“. What were the x:Bind improvements? |
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We're currently early in the planning for Windows App SDK 1.7, but here are some of the top-of-mind improvements we're looking at:
We'll need to report back when we complete our 1.7 planning.
Please use this discussion to provide feedback on these top-of-mind improvements, or to provide feedback and up-votes on other features and issues we should prioritize.
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