Microsoft’s UWP Community Toolkit hits major release with v1.3.0

Microsoft has released a major new update for UWP Community Toolkit.

The UWP Community Toolkit is your best friend in case you are developing for the Universal Windows Platform. It consists of a bunch of helper functions, custom controls, and app services that simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks when creating UWP apps for Windows 10.

v1.3.0 brings a host of new controls, helpers and some services among other fixes and updates as well.

UWP Community Toolkit v1.3.0 changelog:

• Controls
  • Added new Expander control – David Bottiau (PR – Documentation)
  • Added new Loading control – Dachi Gogotchuri (PR – Documentation) –
  • Added new MarkdownTextBlock control – Quinn Damerell (PR – Documentation)
  • Added new ScrollHeader control – Patrick Dehne (PR – Documentation)
  • Added new SurfaceDialTextboxHelper class – Petri Wilhelmsen (PR – Documentation)
  • Added new TileControl control – Samuel Blanchard (PR – Documentation)
  • Added new WrapPanel control – Ibraheem Osama (PR – Documentation)
  • Added new TextBoxMask attached property – Ibraheem Osama (PR – Documentation)
  • Added new TextBoxRegex attached property – Ibraheem Osama (PR – Documentation)
• Helpers
  • Added support for composite values in BaseObjectStorageHelper – Cabuxa.Mapache (PR – Documentation)
  • Added AdvancedCollectionView – Tamás Deme (PR – Documentation)
• Animations
  • Added Light animation behavior – Shen Chauhan (PR – Documentation)
  • Added ParallaxService attached property – Shawn Kendrot (PR – Documentation)
  • Added ReorderGrid animation – Shawn Kendrot (PR – Documentation)
• Services
  • Added Microsoft Translator Service support – Marco Minerva (PR – Documentation)
  • Added Latitude and Longitude support for TwitterService if available – Parker Smart (PR – Documentation)
  • Added OneDrive service – Eric Vernié, Chris Barker (PR – Documentation)
• Notifications
  • New toast features for Creators Update – Andrew Bares (PR – Documentation)

Fixes and updates

• Controls
  • Fixed tab navigation for HamburgerMenu and MasterDetailsView – Taylor Southwick
  • Applied accessibility min bar to SlidableListItem – Audrey Petit
  • Improved cache support for ImageEx – Hermit Dave
  • Add ItemTemplateSelector to HamburgerMenu – David Bottiau
  • Allowed for two-way binding in HamburgerMenu – Scott Lovegrove
  • Fixed binding to SelectedItem on HamburgerMenu – Scott Lovegrove
  • Changed MasterDetailsView to use storyboard animation – Huang, Zhaoquan
  • Added IsDetailsOpen property to MasterDetailsView – Taylor Southwick
  • Added support for DataTemplateSelectors to MasterDetailsView – Scott Lovegrove
  • Fixed issue with the MasterDetailsView not handling navigating back when unable to control via the BackRequested event – Shawn Kendrot
  • Fixed design mode issues with MasterDetailsView – Shawn Kendrot
  • Added support for full screen blades to BladeControl – David Bottiau
  • RadialGauge now accepts any MinAngle – MaxAngle range – Diederik Krols
  • Fixed layout issue with AdaptiveGridView – David Catuhe
  • Fixed horizontal alignment of the GridViewItems in AdaptiveGridView – Shawn Kendrot
  • Fixed wrong cast to string in PullToRefreshListView.ReleaseToRefreshContent – Michael Mairegger
  • Fixed header issues with PullToRefreshListView – Nikola Metulev
• Animations
  • AnimationSet improvements – Nikola Metulev
  • Added a way to modify the Easing Function used in animations – hig-ag
• Helpers
  • Added filename validation in Storage Helper – David Bottiau
  • CancellationToken support to ImageCache PreCacheAsync – Hermit Dave
  • Fixed WebViewExtensions bug & documentation – Thomas Pentenrieder
  • Simplified PrintHelper usage when container already contains controls – David Catuhe
  • Added GetFileFromCacheAsync to CacheBase – Hermit Dave
  • Added RemoveAsync to CacheBase – Hermit Dave
  • HttpHelper now exposes default constructor – Hermit Dave
  • IncrementalLoadingCollection now instantiates source using Activator.CreateInstance – Hermit Dave
• General
  • Added XamlStyler checks – Scott Lovegrove
• Services
  • Added Incremental Loading support for BingService – Marco Minerva

Samples App

• Deep linking support – Brandon H
• Added documentation to every sample – David Catuhe
• Fullscreen mode for Xbox – David Catuhe
• Added POCO code sample for MasterDetailsView – David Catuhe
• Added a new section to gather useful links and tools for UWP developers – David Catuhe
• Added Anniversary Update and Creators Update badges – David Bottiau

Breaking changes

• DropShadowPanel is now a templated control – Hermit Dave
  • PR
  • DropShadowPanel was implemented as a user control which prevented users to change its template
• Fixed mouse issues with PullToRefreshListView – Nikola Metulev
  • PR
  • Changed default behavior to be false for mouse

To download the latest release as a standalone package, head over to this page.

To install UWP Community Toolkit using Package Manager Console inside Visual Studio, run the following command

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Windows Community Toolkit Gallery

Developer: Microsoft Corporation

Price: Free

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