WinUI:NavigationView does not navigate in Release Mode

[Pinox]

Hi , something I noticed , the Hamburger menu items does not change the page views when app is build to UWP Release Mode.

Using latest stable VS 15.9.2

[crutkas]

@Pinox can you share the 'recipe' you used to aid us in debugging?

[Pinox]

@crutkas Sure, Navigation Menu , Mvvmlight and then I had a couple of random pages as in screenshot above.

[sibille]

@Pinox, we're having a look at this.
The issue seems to be related to using the EventTriggerBehavior on the ItemInvoked event.

While we are working on a fix you can workaround by using the event instead.
In ShellPage.xaml, remove the following code:

<ic:EventTriggerBehavior EventName="ItemInvoked">
         <ic:InvokeCommandAction Command="{x:Bind ViewModel.ItemInvokedCommand}" />
 </ic:EventTriggerBehavior>

and add

ItemInvoked="NavigationView_ItemInvoked"

In the ShellPage.xaml.cs add:

private void NavigationView_ItemInvoked(Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.NavigationView sender, Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.NavigationViewItemInvokedEventArgs args)
{
     ViewModel.ItemInvokedCommand.Execute(args);
}

[Pinox]

@sibille Thanks.

[crutkas]

Will this need a hot fix?

[sibille]

Created an issue to investigate this at microsoft/XamlBehaviors#142. I think we should prepare a hotfix with the workaround while investigating the root cause.

[mvegaca]

Hotfix added on a pull request
#2776

[sibille]

Hotfix published

[pedrolamas]

I see that you've moved away from the XAML Behaviors with this hotfix, but in case you still want to use it, I have a solution for you!

On the "Default.rd.xml" template files, add the following directives:

<Type Name="Windows.Foundation.TypedEventHandler{Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.NavigationView,Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.NavigationViewItemInvokedEventArgs}" MarshalObject="Public" />

<Type Name="Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.NavigationView">
  <Event Name="ItemInvoked" Dynamic="Required"/>
</Type>

This will be enough to ensure that NavigationView.ItemInvoked event can be used dynamically with reflection (in this case, with the EventTriggerBehavior)

[crutkas]

Oooo. Thanks Pedro. Sibille, thoughts?

[sibille]

I think we should re-include the behaviour and the directives in the Default.rd.xml file, adding a comment that explains what they are needed for.

[dgomezc]

Verified in dev-nightly:
Templates version: 0.20.19009.3
Wizard version: 0.20.19009.1

[paulober]

Does somebody know where to mention this issue that it gets fixed by default (also for people who don't use WTS)? Maybe at the Microsoft.Xaml.Interactivity team or the microsoft-ui-xaml repo or the UWP Team?

[mrlacey]

Does somebody know where to mention this issue that it gets fixed by default (also for people who don't use WTS)? Maybe at the Microsoft.Xaml.Interactivity team or the microsoft-ui-xaml repo or the UWP Team?

@PavLL Yes, a fix for this at a UWP level should be reported at the WinUI repository. (Maybe reopen your issue there as a workaround isn't as good as a fix.)
Or, for WinUI related issues, report them on the WindowsAppsSDK repo as that's where the templates for WinUI 3 projects live.