Template Studio Files

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)