v1.7.0-preview1

[RDMacLachlan]

1.7 Preview 1 (1.7.250208002-preview1) 🔃

The first preview of WinAppSDK 1.7 is now available! Check out the release notes for more information on the new & updated features and known issues.

Updates to this version:

The 1.7 Preview 1 package is available at https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK/1.7.250208002-preview1

• New Badge notifications to allow numeric (1-99) or system glyphs to be applied.
• New CameraCaptureUI API provides a streamlined solution with support for WindowID in the constructor for enhanced desktop compatibility.
• New AuthManager has been introduced.
• New background task support, providing the ability to directly register the full trust COM components with background tasks.
• New Titlebar controls includes robust titlebar capabilities like empty-space draggable regions, theme responsiveness, caption buttons and built-in accessibility support.
• Support for MathML
• New Runtime compatibility options to provide more control over how servicing changes affect apps.
• New ReleaseInfo API provides easy access to the version of the WinAppSDK runtime in use.

Bugs fixed in the new WinAppSDK Release:

• Get-or-Create a Detours nuget package #178 - Changed 'SplitButton' so touch input now matches the behavior of mouse input. |
• AnyCPU Class Libraries no longer supported #939 - Changed cascading menus so sub menus now open immediately if clicked |
• WindowsAppRuntime_MSIXInstallFromPath.exe #1467 - Fixed an issue where opening a ComboBox which is in a flyout closes all flyouts
• App Crashes with "ResourceMap not found" depending on the Package Name, and the use of NavigationView #2527 - Fixed an issue where SwipeControl would randomly crash in a ListView
• Updating bug report for WinAppSDK v1.2.4 #3458 - Fixed an issue where drag-and-drop only a ListViewItem would leave it in the wrong visual state
• [.NET 8 RC1] Error NETSDK1083 "The specified RuntimeIdentifier 'win10-x86' is not recognized" displays in error list after creating a WinUI project #3842 - Fixed an issue in StackLayout so that is respects the ItemsRepeater.HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment properties
• #6661 - Fixed an issue when deleting items in the ItemsRepeater alignment was stretched
• #8447 - Fixed an issue where the right Alt key would not show Keytips for Access Keys
• #9199 - Fixed a crash where UniformGridLayout would sometimes pick a wrong layout anchor and cause infinite layout passes when scrolling backwards
• #9632 - Fized an issue where setting NavigationFailedEventArgs.Handled to True would still throw an exception
• #9846 - Fixed an issue where TabView would not apply any specific CornerRadius
• #9852 - Fixed a potential layout cycle crash in StackLayout
• #9868 - Fixed a potential crash in ItemsView when removing items.

Providing feedback

As we introduce new & upcoming features in our preview releases, we appreciate all of your feedback as we work towards a stable release:

• For WinUI 3 feedback, please open an issue on the WinUI repo.
• For feedback regarding all other Windows App SDK components, please open an issue here, on the Windows App SDK repo.

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This discussion was created from the release v1.7.0-preview1.

[HO-COOH]

This release note link is also broken 😂 @RDMacLachlan

[RDMacLachlan]

Oops, thank you for calling this out. I've now fixed the Release notes 🥇

[RyanLua]

Finally the titlebar control has returned. I was pretty happy to hear this so I can finally move from the WinUIEx titlebar control, but I encountered a few issues with it:

• Back button is not animated
• Caption buttons don't update colors correctly for app theme (WinUIEx used to have this issue Caption controls don't update to on theme change dotMorten/WinUIEx#210; This has been already been reported before and is reoccurring? New TitleBar Caption Button Colors does not work properly microsoft-ui-xaml#9788)
• You can drag the window by the back button (and mess up the tooltip) - This is even if you set the window titlebar to the control

I'm not sure if any of these behaviors were intentional for the titlebar control. Caption buttons are clearly a bug, but I don't know if the back button being draggable and not animated are as expected.

[mominshaikhdevs]

it will be much better if you file an issue in this repo, describing all these titlebar control issues.

[RDMacLachlan]

@RyanLua, please create GitHub Issues for the items you've raised above. We will route them to their appropriate team.

[RyanLua]

@RDMacLachlan I made an issue showcasing the bug with the back button: microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#10350

The issue with the caption buttons being the wrong color was already reported. Supposedly it was fixed but it still exists for me on preview 1.
microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#9788 microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#9722

[karkarl]

I've posted an updated on the TitleBar API Spec Review PR as an FYI: microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#10056 (comment)