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| WinUI continues to advance and improve across both generations of the technology: | ||
| 2. **WinUI 2**: The previous generation of the WinUI stack for UWP apps, consisting of a XAML and Visual Layer built directly into the Windows 10 operating system, and a controls library built on top of the OS, delivered via NuGet, and hosted at this repository. WinUI 2 will continue to be supported with bug, reliability, and security fixes. |
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Out of curiosity, is UWP XAML part of WinUI "Gen" 2 or does WinUI "Gen" 2 only mean the library?
Also, what is WinUI Gen 1? @ryandemopoulos didn't you say something about that in a community call?
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We don't really talk about Gen 1, but it's a good question. :) Before WinUI 2 went public, there was an earlier internal-only version that we used to build a few apps in Microsoft. In retrospect we probably should have launched that as 1.0, but since we already had a bunch of customers on "WinUI 1", we decided to move to "WinUI 2" when we went public.
In the bucket of "things I'd change if I had a time machine". :)
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Oh cool, thanks for the insights and explanation @ryandemopoulos !
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| The next release of the **WinUI 2 Controls Library** will be v2.8, aiming to release in mid-2022. | ||
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| **WinUI 3 - Windows App SDK 1.0** is our latest release. | ||
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| | Customer Capability | Project Reunion 0.5 <br/>(March 2021) | Windows App SDK 0.8 <br/>(June 2021) | Windows App SDK 1.0 <br/> (November 2021) | Planned for Windows App SDK 1.1 | Planned for a future update | | ||
| | ------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | --------------------------- | --------------------------- | | ||
| | Supported in any app using the Windows App SDK | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Contains new Windows 11 controls/styles from WinUI 2.6 | | | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Supports MSIX Deployment | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Supports Unpackaged (non-MSIX) Deployment | | | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Works downlevel to Windows 10 version 1809 and above | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Supports the latest .NET | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | ARM64 support | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | `<SwapChainPanel> ` | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Intellisense, Hot Reload, Live Visual Tree | 🔷 | 🔷 | 🟢[^1] | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Chromium-based WebView2 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Title bar customization | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Fluent Shadows | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | ||
| | Input validation for data fields | 🔷 | 🔷 | 🔷 | 🔷 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Supports multiple top-level windows on the same thread | 🔷 | 🔷 | 🔷 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Support multiple top-level windows on separate threads | 🔷 | 🔷 | 🔷 | 🔷 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Drag and drop | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | RenderTargetBitmap | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Mouse cursor customization | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Animated Gif support | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | VirtualSurfaceImageSource (VSIS) support | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | In-app acrylic | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Background acrylic | | | | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Mica | | | | 🟢 | 🟢 | | ||
| | XAML Islands | | 🔷 | 🔷 | 🔷 | 🟢 | | ||
| | Media Controls (e.g. `<MediaPlayerElement>`) | | | | | 🟢 | | ||
| | `<InkCanvas>` | | | | | 🟢 | | ||
| | `<MapControl>` | | | | | 🟪 | | ||
| | XAML designer | | | | | 🟪 | | ||
| WinUI 2.8 will include WebView2 & bug, reliability, and security fixes for UWP apps. You can find a list of currently planned work in the [WinUI 2.8 milestone](https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/milestone/14). |
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Awesome, excited for that!
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Update WinUI 2 & 3 roadmap to review features and overview the technologies. Transfer future-thinking to WASDK roadmap.