July Update for WPF on .NET Core

[grubioe]

July Update for WPF on .NET Core

Preview 7 was released last week and with that we are now on the final two months before the official release in September. This next month we are planning on open sourcing the final set of managed assemblies and continuing to close all 3.0 bugs.

Last month we shared all the great progress from the team and even though Summer is here we've kept fixing bugs and closing on the final set of release work. Here are a few callouts:

• Improved Visual Studio templates and experience: @jmarolf from the Visual Studio team added VS support to add WPF Class Library projects and control library templates and improve the experience when creating a new WPF .NET Core 3.0 app
  • This is available in dotnet new in the latest core-sdk builds and will become available in Visual Studio 2019 soon.
• @vatsan-madhavan Open Sourced our test tool that allows BAML to XAML decompilation. Check it out!
• @rladuca fixed behavior changes that derived from missing functionality #585 by converting non-seekable PackagePart streams to seekable. @rladuca also cleaned up unused source code from PresentationFramework.
• @arpitmathur resolved various accessibility issues.
• @stevenbrix resolved various test failures(1111, 1301).
• @ojhad and @vatsan-madhavan finalized all the work related to removing deprecated security features (1093, 1286).
• @ojhad fixed various crashes (664,579) and issues (1141, 848).
• @ryalanms fixed a localization issue and resolved various issues (1300, 1098) related to our build infrastructure.
• @vatsan-madhavan on-boarded a new C++ compiler toolset to help with crossgen issues and enabled SplashScreen build-action.

Also, you'll notice a pinned issue related to providing feedback to the Windows Template Studio Team. Please review and provide feedback as they are scoping adding WPF project templates to their WTS Visual Studio extension.

Thank again for your engagement, contributions and feedback. If you have questions, suggestions, or concerns, please let us know.

[weltkante]

This next month we are planning on open sourcing the final set of managed assemblies

Whats the plan for the mixed mode C++ render engine? Will it be open sourced for release?

[zwcloud]

This next month we are planning on open sourcing the final set of managed assemblies

Whats the plan for the mixed mode C++ render engine? Will it be open sourced for release?

They added that to future milestone: Milestone tracking issues not triaged to a planned release. Work in this milestone may happen, or may not: it is not committed..

But I actually don't care if it compiles or not, just want to learn how WPF renders everything thoroughly. What I need is just a zip file containing all the unmanaged C++/Cli or C++ code.