v5.0.0

Major Updates

controls

• Added WindowsXamlHost for WPF and Windows Forms - Ryland Alanis, Richard Murillo (PR) - [documentation]
• Added XamlIslands wrapped controls for WPF and Windows Forms - Jim Wilcox (PR) (PR) (PR)
  • WebViewCompatible - [documentation]
  • InkCanvas - [documentation]
  • InkToolbar - [documentation]
  • MediaPlayerElement - [documentation]
  • MapControl - [documentation]
• Added TabView control - Michael Hawker (PR) - [documentation]
• DataGrid
  • Added ComboBox Column - Filip Wallberg (PR)
• InAppNotification
  • Added support for High Contrast - Tony Goodhew (PR) (PR)
• MasterDetailsView
  • Added BackButtonBehavior to control how the MasterDetailsView should work with and display a back button when in a narrow view - Shawn Kendrot (PR)
• RadialGauge
  • Added suport for High Contrast and Narrator - Diederik Krols (PR)
• ImageEx
  • Added support for base64 source - h82258652 (PR)
• BladeView
  • Added support for binding of ItemsSource - Shawn Kendrot (PR)
• MarkDownTextBlock
  • Added support for High Contrast - Tony Goodhew (PR)
  • Added yaml header, superscript, subscript support - Richasy (PR)
• GridSplitter
  • Updated pressed brush for dark and light theme - JohanO (PR)
• HeaderedControl
  • Added orientation property - Shawn Kendrot (PR)

animations

• ConnectedAnimations - Nikola Metulev (PR)
  • Added support for registering elements in code behind
  • Added support for overriding navigation parameter used for animation
  • Using DirectConnectedAnimationConfiguration on back navigation

services

• Added Weibo service - Void² and h82258652 (PR)
• Added .NET Framework implementations for platform specific interfaces and updated Twitter and LinkedIn services to use new implementations - Kevin Bronstein (PR)
• Added the Symbols type to TwitterEntities - Claire Davis (Strodtbeck) (PR)
• Updated TranslatorService to use the new Translator Text API v3.0 - Marco Minerva (PR)

helpers

• Gaze
  • Added support for calibration - Pete Ansell (PR) (PR)

developer tools

• PlatformSpecificAnalyzer
  • Added new API differences for SDK 17763 - Hermit Dave (PR)

parsers

• MarkDown
  • Added yaml header, superscript, subscript support - Richasy (PR)

Bug Fixes

controls

• DataGrid
  • Fixed Layout cycle exceptions - Régis Brid (PR) (PR)
• Radial gauge
  • Fixed arrow keys not respecting the current StepIze - Shawn Kendrot (PR)
• Expander
  • Fixed collapse animation - Lucas Rojas (PR)
  • Fixed issue with Expander background when ContentOverlay is set - Nikola Metulev (PR)
  • Fixed background colors not switching while app is running. - Pepe Rivera (PR)
• AadLogin
  • Fixed SignoutCompleted event not firing - Nikola Metulev (PR)
• GridSplitter
  • Fixed theme change not updating colors - Tony Goodhew (PR)
• Menu
  • Fixed MenuItem issue with Inconsistent flyout placement in vertical orientation - Ibraheem Osama (PR)
  • Fixed background colors not switching while app is running. - Pepe Rivera (PR)
• AdaptiveGridView
  • Fixed issue with AdaptiveGridView not laying out properly when BorderThickness is not 0 - Shawn Kendrot (PR)
• InfiniteCanvas
  • Fixed issue where InfiniteCanvas was not resizing properly after initial load - Ibraheem Osama (PR)
• ImageEx
  • Added caching strategy and fixed caching of the Image. - Valeriu Balan (PR)
• InAppNotification
  • Fixed background colors not switching while app is running. - Pepe Rivera (PR)

WPF and Windows Forms controls

• WindowsXamlHost

  • [WindowsForms] Changed index of SetWindowLong() call to GWL_EXSTYLE to avoid crash - lhak (PR)
  • [WindowsForms] Added workaround for DPI scaling issue - lhak (PR)
  • [WPF] Exposed UIA Tree - ranjeshj (PR)
  • Made sure we check if a type is a platform type before trying to activate it through the app's metadata provider - ranjeshj (PR)

• WebView

  • Fixed issue with DPI in WPF - Huo Yaoyuan (PR)
  • WPF WebView Source property reflects current document location - Richard Murillo (PR)
  • [WebViewCompatible] Use WebViewControlHost.IsSupported to avoid loading APIs on downlevel OS - Oren Novotny (PR)

services

• OneDrive Service
  • Fixed issue with large file upload - Kevin Bronstein (PR)

brushes

• Fixed issue where RadialGradientBrush was not working when app is resumed - Lucas Rojas (PR)

helpers

• AdvancedCollectionView
  • Fixed the VectorChanged event to only get triggered if the position of the item actually changes - Fabian Sauter (PR)
  • General code cleanup and simplification of code - Fabian Sauter (PR)
  • Fixed not subscribing/unsubscribing to events if DeferRefresh() is active - Fabian Sauter (PR)
  • Added a render transform to support dpi scaling - lhak (PR)
• StringExtensions
  • Update Regex for Phone Number - AVK (PR)
• PrintHelper
  • Fixed async communication between parent and children page - Barbara Martinez (PR)

parsers

• MarkDown
  • Fixed markdown parser crash when typing comments - JohanO (PR)

Breaking changes

• Update Min (16299) and Target (17763) version on all packages and sample app - Nikola Metulev (PR)
• Removed sealed from sealed controls - Nikola Metulev (PR)
• [Services/IStorageManager] - Changed return type of Get and Set methods from void to Task and renamed to GetAsync and SetAsync - Kevin Bronstein (PR)

introduced new nuget packages for Win32 controls

• Separate WebView from other controls. All WebView controls are now in the Microsoft.Toolkit.Wpf.UI.Controls.WebView and Microsoft.Toolkit.Forms.UI.Controls.WebView nugets - Richard Murillo (PR)

removed obsolete controls

• Removed RoundImageEx - Nikola Metulev (PR)
• Removed PullToRefreshListView, SlidableListItem, ParallaxService, NavigationViewExtensions, and Bing service - Nikola Metulev (PR)
• Removed HamburgerMenu - Nikola Metulev (PR)

removed obsolete properties

• AadLogin: Removed obsolete event and method - Nikola Metulev (PR)
• Twitter service: Removed TwitterGeoData, TwitterExtended, TweetStatusAsync for IRandomAccessStream and UploadPictureAsync for IRandomAccessStream - Nikola Metulev (PR)

deprecated

• Deprecated Light animation - Lucas Rojas (PR)
• Deprecated HeaderedTextBlock - Shawn Kendrot (PR)

miscellaneous

sample app

• Replaced HamburgerMenu with NavigationView - Nikola Metulev (PR)
• DataGrid sample - fixed sort handler login for picking a new sort direction - Régis Brid (PR)
• Fix tweet background for dark theme - Shawn Kendrot (PR)
• Rev Monaco Editor version in Sample App to fix highlighting errors - Michael Hawker (PR)
• Removed RoundedImageEx from sample app - Shawn Kendrot (PR)

other

• Updated ColorCode - William Bradley (PR)
• Updated StaggeredPanel description text - Lucas Rojas (PR)
• Migrating docs to MicrosoftDocs repository - Nikola Metulev (PR)
• Update docs of ArrayExtensions, StringExtensions - Daniel Chalmers (PR)
• Added docs for XamlIslands - McLean Schofield (PR)
• Added script to determine SDK versions - Richard Murillo (PR)
• Grammatical error fixed - Harsh Savergaonkar (PR)
• Updated readme.md - Daniel Chalmers (PR)
• Update readme.md - Oren Novotny (PR)
• Consolidate build yamls files - Oren Novotny (PR)