6.0 Release Plan

 
This plan captures our work for the 6.0 release at the end of October. The goal is to have a release which focuses on support for XAML Islands to align with the .NET Core 3 release and address some top concerns from our community. Read on for more details on what we have planned for this release
 

The plan

 
Below is a summary of the top level plan items. These items are in addition to everything that was initially released with the preview.
 
Legend of annotations:

New components

• 0️⃣ ❗ Graph Control Revamp to align to MGT and platform SDKs
  • 0️⃣ LoginButton
  • 0️⃣ PersonView
  • 0️⃣ PeoplePicker
  • 1️⃣ PersonCardView
  • 1️⃣ AgendaView
  • 2️⃣ TasksView
• 0️⃣ Improved XAML Islands Tooling Support
• 0️⃣ TokenizingTextBox New control: AutoSuggestBox that allows snapping of resolved items #195
• 0️⃣ Win32 Desktop Toast Helpers Add Win32 desktop toasts helper code #2793
• 1️⃣ Eye Dropper Control Add eyedropper ability for toolkit #2742
• 1️⃣ ❗ Shadow API XAML Helpers see twitter thread
• 1️⃣ ❗ ContentSizer (alternative GridSplitter control)
• 2️⃣ DirectWriteTextBlock I'd like to have a Vertical TextBlock to render East Asian Text #2441
   

Component improvements:

• 0️⃣ Lottie Improvements/Bug Fixes
  • 0️⃣ Linear and radial gradient strokes and fills
  • 1️⃣ Dynamic color substitution for theming
  • 1️⃣ Image layer
  • 1️⃣ Metadata interface for markers, frame count, etc.
• 1️⃣ GridSplitter refactor based off ContentSizer Redesign of GridSplitter API #2976 (and others)
   

Platform

• 0️⃣ Setup Microsoft signed build
• 0️⃣ 🔦 VS 2019 Support
  • 0️⃣ ❗ Update VS Designer API to current, Related to VS 2019 support??
• 0️⃣ 🔦 Investigate ARM64 Build
• 1️⃣ 🔦 Investigate Toolkit UWP Controls which support XAML Islands

Deprecate

• 0️⃣ Menu control (replaced by WinUI's MenuBar)
• 1️⃣ Light? Says XamlLight should replace it, but that looks more complex than what we had.