microsoft/TemplateStudio v5.2

v5.2 Release of Template Studio

on GitHub

5.2 July 2022

Template Studio for WinUI (C#)

• Restored Edit Project functionality now under Add -> New Item (Template Studio) within the Project context menu
  • Due to significant changes in the project templates, we recommend creating a new project with the 5.2 extension and migrating your old project to the new template in order to edit projects
  • Editing existing projects is possible but will require manual changes to resolve merge conflicts and other build issues
• Added App Notifications support
• Added MSTest support
• Integrated WinUIEx to provide additional windowing functionality
  • NavigationView and MenuBar projects now use Mica by default
  • Window position and size are persisted for MSIX apps
  • Set additional properties in MainWindow.xaml or access additional functionality on App.MainWindow
• Improved code style
  • Enabled ImplicitUsings
  • Enabled Nullable
• Display README.md in the editor on project creation to improve the Getting Started experience
• Updated the Core project to .NET 6 from .NET Standard
• Updated to Windows App SDK 1.1.3
• Onboarded to localization service to localize more of the Template Studio wizard going forward

Template Studio for WPF

• Restored Edit Project functionality now under Add -> New Item (Template Studio) within the Project context menu
  • To edit a project created with an earlier version of the extension, add <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings> to the App and Core project files, add <LangVersion>latest</LangVersion> to the Core project file, run Analyze -> Code Cleanup on the solution to remove unnecessary usings, and convert to file-scoped namespace declarations by typing a semicolon after the namespace name in all cs files. You will also need to update CommunityToolkit. using statements to Microsoft.Toolkit..
• Improved code style
  • Enabled ImplicitUsings
  • Converted to file-scoped namespace declarations

Template Studio for UWP

• Restored Edit Project functionality now under Add -> New Item (Template Studio) within the Project context menu

Known Issues

• Editing WinUI projects created with older versions of the extension requires manual changes (#4582)
• UITestMethods fail in GitHub Actions CI (#4581)
• Investigate dotnet CLI with MSTest project (#4579)
• Notification APIs crash for unpackaged, framework-dependent, x86 builds of apps running on x64 machines due to a platform bug with the Main and Singleton packages in the Windows App SDK Runtime (#4570)
• Deploy is unchecked in the build configurations for packaged projects (#4442)