WinUI Community Call - March 6, 2024

The community call is live-streamed among the WinUI and WindowsAppSDK team. We present on new updates, share information, welcome guests, and answer your questions.
The WinUI and WindowsAppSDK team are back! Sorry we've been quiet; we've heard you're all excited for a call! We've been working on a more sustainable plan to engage with the developer community long term, and we're excited to share more with you all soon over the coming months!
Pre-call GitHub Discussion Link: github.com/microsoft/microsof...

[@llothar68]

Thanks for having a call after so many month of silence

[@realivanjx]

NATIVE AOT!!!!

[@jakedahl818]

When/Will we get XAML designer supprt for WinUI 3? That is the only thing I miss about UWP.

[@Mempler]

In how many years will it be deprecated, like basically all other UI frameworks you guys made? Also, when will you finally fix the initial blackscreen and rendering (slow resize, transparent resize hack, etc) issues that have been an issue for years. Powertoys is heavily suffering from this. Especially when you press the shortcut icon that takes ages to start. Issue microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/5148 should be PRIORITY NR 1 period.

[@thememetheorist]

THIS ^^^^^^!!!! They have sat on issues 5148 since 2021 when its literally one of the biggest issues making people not want to use winui3. They could probably easily fix it to but instead they just keep adding more broken features.

[@sergiq2]

I have a question about Scott Jones presentation. I tried reproduce what he did, and honestly, I have loaded module for Microsoft.ui.xaml.dll and an appropriate .pdb file sits in symbol cache folder and my VS reacts on this breakpoint (Microsoft.ui.xaml.dll!OnFailureEncountered) but still, I am unable to see those .cpp classes because Source Link cannot authenticate me. Does this part of presentation is only for internal MS employees ? The only benefit for me is that I see much more precise call stack.

[@parko1965]

Any news on the new binding failure you introduced on the NavigationView control in v1.5

[@PHANMEMMIENPHI-zo7pi]

Hi Bro !! Currently, I'm looking for a solution for content protection. Please give me a specific guide about configuration how to render a black color, obscuring content when someone take a screenshot or screen recording. ( Including: Web Browser and Document ) Tks for support. Best regards

[@TheZeppelinShark]

No mention about input validation?

[@rappinron1384]

When will WinUI have as much functionality as WPF?

[@curtis6919]

23 seconds to check 100k elements hahahhaha microsoft is so bad