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
PM> Install-Package Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp
