v1.3.0

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🌟 Highlights

• Upgraded to .NET8
• Added Uno Platform Support
• Localization Support
• GridLines support
• Cell & Row Context Flyout
• Custom Sorting and Filtering

What's New

• Localization support: added localization support to the control. thanks to @VisualAlf for de-DE translations and @arthurits for es-ES translations. added localization support #113, Locale for de-DE #116, String resources for es-ES #126
• Gridlines: Adding support for customizable horizontal and vertical gridlines. These gridlines are enabled by default but can be turned off using HeaderGridLinesVisibility, GridLinesVisibility properties. Other related properties are VerticalGridLinesStrokeThickness, HorizontalGridLinesStrokeThickness, VerticalGridLinesStroke, HorizontalGridLinesStroke. Add Horizontal and Vertical Grid Lines #74
• Alternate Row Colors: Adding support for alternate row background and foreground colors. You can set these colors to AlternateRowBackground and AlternateRowForeground properties. added AlternateRowBackground/Foreground properties #83, Additional coloring #21.
• Cell & Row Context Flyout: Added support for context flyouts on cells and rows, enabling custom actions via right-click menus. You can set cell context flyout to CellContextFlyout and row context flyout to RowContextFlyout. added cell and row context flyouts #85, Add RightMouseClick in cell #38.
• Custom Sorting and Filtering: Implemented IColumnFilterHandler and introduced Sorting, ClearSorting events for allowing developers to define custom logic for data manipulation. Custom Sorting and Filtering Support #98, Sorting & Filtering: Expose Methods to Replace ItemsSource #30, have TemplateColumn sort/filterable #55, Add public method to clear column filters #77, Expose properties to programmatically set on which column the Table is sorted #92.
• Three-State Column Sorting: Enhanced sorting functionality to include three states (Ascending, Descending, and None) for better user experience. Custom Sorting and Filtering Support #98, 3-State SortDescriptions  #37.
• Corner Button Mode: Implemented CornerButtonMode to choose corner button functionality. With this implementation ShowOptionsButton property is replaced with CornerButtonMode property. replaced ShowOptionsButton proeprty with CornerButtonMode #80, ShowOptionsButton functionality #23.
• Tag Property: Tag property is added to the TableViewColumn type. added Tag property #84, Tag in TableViewColumn, TableViewTextColumn #49.
• Customize Column Headers: Column headers style can be set through TableView.ColumnHeaderStyle and TableViewColumn.HeaderStyle.
• Customize Cells styles: Cell style can be set through TableView.CellStyle and TableViewColumn.CellStyle.
• Element & Editing Element Style: TableViewBoundColumn elements and editing elements style can be set through ElementStyle and `EditingElementStyle.
• Added RowMinHeight property. added RowMinHeight property with bindings #110
• Added PlaceholderText property for TimeColumn.
• Exposed ScrollRowIntoView and ScrollCellIntoView methods. Exposed ScrollRowIntoView and ScrollCellIntoView #123
• Ensure cells when using different ItemsPanel other than ItemsStackPanel.
• Disallow selection and option buttons while editing.

New Column Types

• TableViewDateColumn – Supports DateTimeOffset, DateTime, and DateOnly, allowing better handling of date-based data. Added Date and Time columns #87. This type of column uses new TableViewDatePicker control that is designed to work with multiple data types.
• TableViewTimeColumn – Supports DateTimeOffset, DateTime, TimeOnly, and TimeSpan, improving time-based data representation. Added Date and Time columns #87. This type of column uses new TableViewTimePicker control that is designed to work with multiple data types.

What's Changed

• AdvancedCollectionView from Community Toolkit is replaced with custom type CollectionView. This change allows better handling of items and offers good features integration with TableView. replaced AdvancedCollectionView with custom CollectionView #91

Fixes

• Fixed select all check box fast click issue. Colum Checkbox has a bug #61, fixed select all check box fast click issue #81
• Crashes by empty property paths in column binding is fixed. Empty PropertyPath doesn't work in columns #42, replaced AdvancedCollectionView with custom CollectionView #91
• Fixed a crash when there are null values in primitive type column. Optionsflyout throws on bool? or DateOnly? if value=null #89, replaced AdvancedCollectionView with custom CollectionView #91

Breaking Changes

• ShowOptionsButton property has been removed in favor of CornerButtonMode property.
• CollectionView property is now of type ICollectionView.

Known Issues

• Changing grid line thickness or visibility property at runtime may lead to unexpected layouts of column headers and row cells. This is due to an issue in ItemsStackPanel ItemsStackPanel with ListView does not layout items properly when horizontal scroll mode is enabled microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#9860

New Contributors

• @VisualAlf Fire ContextFlyoutOpened even if Flyout is null #108, Locale for de-DE #116
• @arthurits String resources for es-ES #126

Full Changelog: v1.2.2...v1.3.0

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This discussion was created from the release v1.3.0.