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Windows Community Toolkit 7.1 Preview Release!

In this post, we talk about all the new features in our upcoming 7.1 release! Try out the preview today!

Welcome to the Community Toolkit!

In this post, we discuss recent changes to our GitHub organization and our plans for the future!

WinUI Desktop Unit Tests

Lets jump straight into how to create a Unit Test project for WinUI Desktop, using MSTest!

Windows Community Toolkit for the Windows App SDK

We've shipped the Windows Community Toolkit for Project Reunion 0.5! Find out how to get started now!

Leverage Microsoft Graph in Electron Applications using Microsoft Graph Toolkit!

The Microsoft Graph Toolkit recently released an Authentication provider specifically for Electron applications that allows authentication and Graph integration with very few lines of code. This post walks you through the process of building a Graph powered Electron application using the Microsoft Graph Toolkit.

Creating a Windows Service with C#/.NET5

Lets create a simple app with C#/NET5 and see how we can register it as a Windows Service, logging information into the Windows Event Viewer, and moving some files around based on the outputs of a Machine Learning Model.

Command Line Parser on .NET5

Lets learn how to parse command-line arguments in a C#/.NET5 application, and how a simple NuGet package can make this process much easier and declarative.

Using WinML in .NET5

Lets get our hands down and create a simple .NET5 console app that uses WinML to analyse an image and classify what it is using a pre-built machine learning model.

Use a Custom Resource Markup Extension to Succeed at UI String Globalization!

In this post, we give an alternate option to the common guidance for resource string globalization in XAML. We will give you a insiders peek at how Microsoft inbox apps use a custom markup extension to do this and the benefits that provides.