v2.0.0

Major updates

• controls

  • InAppNotification: The InAppNotification control offers the ability to show local notifications in your application - David Bottiau (PR) - documentation
  • TextToolbar: Control for editing RichText or Markdown - William Bradley (PR) - documentation
  • Expander: added ability to change expand direction/orientation - David Bottiau (PR)
  • Menu: - Ibraheem Osama (PR)
    • Added support for underline character in MenuItem by using '^'
    • Flyout is now positioned correctly when menu item is at the edge,
    • Animations are now consistent when hovering over menu items
    • MenuItem now supports content instead of just string
    • MenuItems can now wrap around safely
    • MenuItem and Menu now respond to font styling

• extensions

  • LogicalTreeExtensions to navigate actual control structure - Michael Hawker (PR)

• services

  • Created .NET Standard libraries for Microsoft.Toolkit and Microsoft.Toolkit.Services in preparation to move more APIs cross platform. Moved the Bing Service to Microsoft.Toolkit.Services - Chris Barker (PR)

• connectivity

  • Add new package Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Connectivity to unify connectivity APIs including BluetoothLEHelper and Network helpers - Hermit Dave (PR)

• helpers

  • ScreenUnitHelper: to assist in converting between various units - David Bottiau (PR)

• sample app

  • New shell design and navigation model - Nikola Metulev (PR)
  • New live XAML editor to edit samples in app - Michael Hawker (PR)
  • Enabled offline documentation - Nikola Metulev (PR)
  • New landing page experience including most recent and what's new list - Nikola Metulev (PR)
  • Easier Xbox navigation - Shane Weaver (PR)

• other

  • All projects target Creators Update - Nikola Metulev (PR)

Fixes and updated

• controls

  • Menu: Fixed menu showing on hover and on requesting menu from keyboard when IsEnabled=true - Ibraheem Osama (PR)
  • ScrollHeader: Enabled x:Bind on TargetListViewBase - Michael Hawker (PR)
  • DropShadowPanel and RadialGauge now work in the VS designer - Nikola Metulev (PR)
  • CarouselControl now does not throw exception when ItemsSource is changed to NULL or a smaller collection, or when SelectedIndex < 0 - gaunts (PR)
  • HeaderedTextBox Visual State Orientation is set to Initial Orientation - Michael Hawker (PR)
  • AdaptiveGridView now supports custom ItemsPanel with margin and padding - Nikola Metulev (PR)
  • RoundImageEx Now has default horizontal and vertical alignment value. - Hermit Dave (PR)
  • MarkdownTextBlock now supports SIP Schema - BenAffleckIsBatman (PR)

• services

  • Fixes to Facebook service following FB graph changes in v2.9 - Chris Barker (PR)
  • MicrosoftGraph service can now retrieve calendar events. - Guillaume DEMICHELI (PR)

• helpers

  • CacheBase stream initialization rework to improve speed and prevent artefacts on image - Hermit Dave (PR)
  • ImageCache marked _instance field as ThreadStatic to resolve threading issue - Hermit Dave (PR)

• notifications

  • Re-enabled toast AfterActivationBehavior - Andrew Bares (PR)

• documentation

  • Fixed all broken links and mistakes - Vijay Nirmal (PR)
  • Added ExpressionBuilder documentation - Vijay Nirmal (PR)
  • Listed all converters and added examples of converter scenarios - Michael Hawker (PR)

• sample app

  • Fixes for canceling printing and property bindings - Nikola Metulev (PR)

• other

  • Removed all .AsTask().ConfigureAwait(false) calls - Pedro Lamas (PR)
  • Removed HttpHelper using in all APIs and replaced with System.Net.HttpClient - Scotty Le (PR)
  • Updated to latest sign client for singing packages - Oren Novotny (PR)
  • Removed all project.json - Nikola Metulev (PR)
  • added NETCORE dependency to nuget packages - Nikola Metulev (PR)

• breaking changes

  • Extensions and several controls have moved to the Microsoft.Toolkit.UWP.UI.Extensions namespace - Edwin van Driel (PR):

    • TextboxRegex
    • TextBoxMask
    • SurfaceDialTextboxHelper
    • Hyperlink extensions (renamed from HyperlinkExtensions)
    • ListViewBase extensions (renamed from ListViewBaseExtensions)
    • WebView extensions (renamed from WebViewExtensions)
    • ViewExtensions
    • VisualTree extensions - Michael Hawker (PR)

  • All helpers have moved to the Microsoft.Toolkit.UWP.Helpers namespace - Nikola Metulev (PR)

    • BackgroundTaskHelper
    • ColorHelper
    • DeepLinkParser
    • DispatcherHelper
    • ObjectStorageHelpers (including roaming and local)
    • PrintHelper
    • StorageFileHelper
    • StreamHelper
    • WeekEventListener

  • WrapPanel has moved to the Microsoft.Toolkit.UWP.UI.Controls namespace - Edwin van Driel (PR)

  • Moved BluetoothLEHelper, NetworkHelper, and ConnectionInformation to the Microsoft.Toolkit.UWP.Connectivity package - Hermit Dave (PR)

  • Deprecated HttpHelper and moved to .NET standard HttpClient - Hermit Dave (PR)

  • Deprecated several fields for creating new posts to Facebook following FB graph changes in v2.9 - cbarkerms (PR)

  • Removed deprecated APIs - Nikola Metulev (PR)

    • Blade and BladeControl
    • Casting Element from DropShadowPanel
    • ConnectionHelper