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Apr 30, 2026
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Announcing WinUI 3 Gallery 2.9

Niels,
Marcel

  Hey WinUI developers! If you’re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI 3 controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools — all in one place. Today, we’re excited to announce WinUI 3 Gallery 2.9, our first release built on Windows App SDK 2.0, packed with brand new control samples and a few delightful a...

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Apr 22, 2026
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Windows App Development CLI v0.3: new run and ui commands, plus dotnet run support for packaged apps

Chiara Mooney

Windows App Development CLI v0.3 is here! This release brings some of our best features yet including a full run-and-debug experience outside Visual Studio and built-in UI Automation from the command line. With v0.3, we've unlocked a whole class of agentic and automation scenarios. Agents or a script can now run, debug, see, and interact wit...

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Mar 5, 2026
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Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.8

Niels,
Marcel

  Hey WinUI developers! If you’re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI 3 controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools — all in one place. Today, we’re excited to announce WinUI Gallery 2.8, bringing jump list support, new samples, improved accessibility, and several quality-of-life improvements and ...

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Feb 23, 2026
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Use Windows on-device AI in your Electron app

Chiara Mooney

Last year we published AI Dev Gallery, an open-source app full of interactive Windows AI examples. A common follow-up question from Electron developers has been: “How can we build similar on-device AI experiences in our Electron apps?” In this blog, we’ll walk through how we built an Electron app filled with samples of on-device Windows AI, using t...

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Jan 6, 2026
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XAML Studio is now Open Sourced

Michael Hawker

XAML Studio Open Sourced It's been over 8 years since what became XAML Studio was started. And from nearly the beginning, it was always envisioned as an open-source project… So, it's with great pleasure that I'm happy to announce that day has finally come! XAML Studio is now an open-source project! 🎉 A big thanks to the .NET Foundation for help...

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Sep 25, 2025
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Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.7

Niels,
Marcel

  Hey WinUI developers! WinUI Gallery 2.7 is here and it’s packed with fresh updates. If you’re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools — all in one place. This release brings a mix of brand-new features, upgraded samples, and plenty of community-driven imp...

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Apr 2, 2025
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Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v8.2

Michael Hawker

Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v8.2 We're happy to announce that version 8.2 is available today! It's an incremental update which contains a variety of improvements, made possible again with the support and contributions of our developer community. 🎉 If you're not familiar with the Windows Community Toolkit, see below here! Or downloa...

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Sep 11, 2024
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Modernize your UWP app with preview UWP support for .NET 9 and Native AOT

Sergio Pedri

We’re introducing the initial preview UWP (Universal Windows Platform) support for .NET 9, providing a path for existing UWP developers to modernize their apps with the latest .NET and Native AOT. Are you a UWP app developer considering migrating to Windows App SDK and WinUI 3? Or wanting to leverage the latest releases of .NET and ...

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Jun 27, 2023
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Microsoft Store Open Source Series — AppServices library

Sergio Pedri

Looking for ways to empower your UWP app beyond what you thought was possible? Today, we're going to show you how to leverage the AppServices library we built for the Microsoft Store to unlock the power of Win32 APIs. Plus, we have a new source generator which makes using app services a piece of cake! 🍰 This is part of our new "Microsoft Sto...

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Jun 15, 2023
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Introducing the Microsoft Store channel on Discord

Sergio Pedri

This post was co-authored with Priyanka Gupta Kankane ( on Discord), Senior Program Manager in the Microsoft Store services team. We are excited to announce the launch of the channel on Discord, a dedicated space where you can connect, engage, and share feedback on everything related to the Microsoft Store app, website, Partner Center, MSIX pac...

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