v1.1.0

[gabbybilka]

1.1.0

Windows App SDK 1.1.0 is now available 🎉

You are now able to use the stable version of Windows App SDK 1.1 in your applications! This release includes new features and stability & performance improvements across the component areas. New capabilities for apps using Windows App SDK include:

• Apps can create multiple windows with WinUI3 content on the same UI thread.
• Mica & Background Acrylic styles are available for WinUI 3 content.
• Improved default and custom title bar with new functionalities like z-order, sizing/resizing, tall title bar, and extended show.
• Apps using the Windows App SDK can run with elevated permissions.
• Apps that deploy with all their dependencies together are now able to include the Windows App SDK as well. (self-contained deployment)
• Apps can push notifications regardless of being packaged/unpackaged, or whether the app is published in the Store.
• The environment variables PATH, and PATHEXT can be managed and tracked at runtime using new convenient APIs.
• Apps can restart manually or register themselves to be restarted if it was running when a system update occurs.

To see everything that's new and changed, see the full Windows App SDK 1.1 release notes.

Getting Started

To get started using Windows App SDK to develop Windows apps, check out the following documentation:

• Install developer tools .
• Create a WinUI 3 app.
• Continue your development journey.

What's next

To keep up with progress being made on the Windows App SDK, please see our feature roadmap.

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This discussion was created from the release v1.1.0.

[harvinders]

@gabbybilka In the release note, the link for c# mica is broken, https://github.com/microsoft/WinUI-Gallery/tree/winui3/XamlControlsGallery/ControlPagesSampleCode/SystemBackdrops

[shelllet]

please fix these two bugs, my app crashed upgrade to 1.1.

microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#6999
microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#7191

[otomad]

The new link is https://github.com/microsoft/WinUI-Gallery/tree/main/WinUIGallery/ControlPagesSampleCode/SystemBackdrops