v1.4.0

Major updates

• Controls
  • All controls are now aligned to our quality min bar - David Catuhe (PR - Documentation)
  • Added a new Carousel control - Sebastien Pertus (PR - Documentation)
  • Introduced Developer Tools which are controls for helping developers creating applications. This release includes a FocusTracker (used to display information about the current focused XAML element) and an AlignmentGrid (used to display a grid to help aligning controls) - David Catuhe (PR - Documentation and Documentation)
  • ImageEx: Added DecodePixelHeight, DecodePixelType and DecodePixelWidth properties - Hermit Dave (PR - Documentation)
  • Added new features to MarkdownTextBlock: Github code style, images and link foreground color - David Catuhe (PR - Documentation)
  • MasterDetailsView: Added a CommandBar for the master and details section - Shawn Kendrot (PR - Documentation)
• Animations:
  • Added support for Saturation effect - Shen Chauhan (PR - Documentation)
• Helpers
  • NetworkHelper: Provides functionality to monitor changes in network connection and allows users to query for network information without additional lookups - Hermit Dave (PR - Documentation)
  • ViewExtensions: TitleBar and StatusBar can now be controlled from XAML - Hermit Dave (PR - Documentation)
  • Added Refresh method to IncrementalLoadCollection - ianier (PR - Documentation)
• Services
  • Added support for Twitter streaming API - Guillaume Demicheli (PR - Documentation)

Fixes and updates

• Controls
  • BladeView: Fixed scrolling issue when used with data biding - Dong Xie
  • Expander: Added template binding for Background property - David Bottiau
  • ImageEx: Improved LoadImageAsync - Hermit Dave
  • ImageEx: Prevented unwanted reloads - Hermit Dave
  • HamburgerMenu: Fixed scroll behavior for HamburgerMenu - Alex Kuchta
  • HamburgerMenu: Added HamburgerVisibility property - Lukas Fellechner
  • ScrollHeader: Made TargetListViewBase actually return a ListViewBase - Patrick Dehne
  • RangeSelector: Improved UI - liakamp
  • PullToRefreshListView: Fixed several bugs - Nikola Metulev
  • MarkdownTextBlock: Fixed table support - David Catuhe
  • MarkdownTextBlock: Added theme-dependent colors - tipa
  • MarkdownTextBlock: Added foreground colors for header 1 through 6 - Daniel Häfele
  • DropShadowPanel: Fixed an unhandled exception - Hermit Dave
  • AdaptiveGridView: Fixed an issue with scrollbars - David Catuhe
• Animations
  • Fixed AnimationSet - Nikola Metulev
  • Fixed a bug occurring when attaching behaviors - Patrick Dehne
  • Introduce BehaviorBase and let all behaviors derive from this base - Geert van Horrik
• Helpers
  • AdvancedCollectionView: Fixed a small bug when inserting items - Dong Xie
  • Cache: Added a check if item exists in the in-memory storage - Hermit Dave
  • Cache: Improved CacheBase / InMemory Storage concurrency - Hermit Dave
  • Reintroduced missing converters (BoolNegationConverter, FormatStringConverter, ResourceNameToResourceStringConverter) - Tommaso Scalici
  • PrintHelper: Fixed OnPreviewpagesCreated bug with orientation changes - David Catuhe
  • Fixed ColorHelper HSL and HSV calculations - Derek Guenther
• Services
  • OneDrive: Added support for OrderBy ascending and descending size - Eric Leigh
  • OneDrive: Added background download support - Tomasz Romaszkiewicz
  • Twitter: Added missing properties (picture and urls) - Guillaume Demicheli
  • TranslatorService: Added TranslatorServiceException and better documentation - Marco Minerva

Samples App

• Added a search box to search samples directly from the menu bar - David Catuhe
• Fixed a bug where Sample app did not adjust to fit items when tablet orientation changed - liakamp
• Fixed push toast notification in background task (in single process mode) - David Bottiau
• Fixed hamburger selected item not synced when using back button in sample app - David Catuhe
• Added copy button to code samples - David Catuhe
• Made Sample app orientation agnostic - Hermit Dave