{"id":971,"date":"2026-03-05T05:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/?p=971"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:38:04","slug":"announcing-winui-gallery-2-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/announcing-winui-gallery-2-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/03\/Social-media-image.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-975\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/03\/Social-media-image-1024x536.webp\" alt=\"Header image with a screenshot of the WinUI 3 Gallery\" width=\"917\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/03\/Social-media-image-1024x536.webp 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/03\/Social-media-image-300x157.webp 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/03\/Social-media-image-768x402.webp 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/03\/Social-media-image.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hey WinUI developers! If you\u2019re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI 3 controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools \u2014 all in one place. Today, we\u2019re excited to announce <strong>WinUI Gallery 2.8<\/strong>, bringing jump list support, new samples, improved accessibility, and several quality-of-life improvements and bugfixes!<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>Jump list support<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Gallery now integrates with <strong>Windows jump lists<\/strong>, making it easier to quickly return to the samples and tools you use most.<\/p>\n<p>Right-clicking the <strong>app icon in the taskbar<\/strong> (or accessing it from the <strong>Start menu<\/strong>) now shows a Jump List that includes your favorited samples or recently viewed samples. This allows you to jump directly into the parts of the Gallery you use most often without navigating through the app first.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the integration in the app itself, we&#8217;ve also added a new <strong>Jump List sample<\/strong> demonstrating how developers can implement this functionality in their own WinUI applications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/03\/JumpList.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-976\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/03\/JumpList.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of a jumplist\" width=\"386\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/03\/JumpList.webp 606w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/03\/JumpList-290x300.webp 290w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/ifdef-windows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2026\/03\/JumpList-24x24.webp 24w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>New &amp; updated samples<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This release adds several new samples and improvements to existing ones to better showcase common WinUI scenarios:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AppWindow TitleBar customization sample<\/li>\n<li>Jump list sample<\/li>\n<li>Improved Clipboard samples, showing how to copy-and-paste images and files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Additional improvements and bugfixes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This release also includes many improvements across the app, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added over 60+ new Segoe Fluent Icons in the icon picker, supporting British tag variants too.<\/li>\n<li>Improved layout, entrance animations and text readability.<\/li>\n<li>Various accessibility improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Upgraded to .NET 9 and Windows App SDK 1.8.5 and adopting .slnx.<\/li>\n<li>Improved launch speed and other performance enhancements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/WinUI-Gallery\/releases\/tag\/v2.8.0\">full release notes on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Thanks!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This release was made possible by our amazing community contributors &#8211; big thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/AndrewKeepCoding\">@AndrewKeepCoding<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Zakariathr22\">@Zakariathr22<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ghost1372\">@ghost1372<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jpcassano\">@jpcassano<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OphirBleicher\">@OphurBleicher<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sshubhavee\">@sshubhavee<\/a>\u00a0for their contributions!<\/p>\n<p>All in all, this new version is packed with polish, new samples, and community love! Grab it <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.microsoft.com\/detail\/9P3JFPWWDZRC?hl=en-us&amp;gl=US&amp;ocid=pdpshare\">from the Microsoft Store<\/a> or check out <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/WinUI-Gallery\">the GitHub repo<\/a> if you want to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>Happy coding! \ud83d\udcbb\u2728<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hey WinUI developers! If you\u2019re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI 3 controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools \u2014 all in one place. Today, we\u2019re excited to announce WinUI Gallery 2.8, bringing jump list support, new samples, improved accessibility, and several quality-of-life improvements and bugfixes! Jump list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128482,"featured_media":975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,61,49,8,6,77,7,44,15],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ifdef-windows","tag-csharp","tag-developer","tag-dotnet","tag-windows","tag-winui","tag-winui-gallery","tag-winui3","tag-wpf","tag-xaml"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>&nbsp; Hey WinUI developers! If you\u2019re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI 3 controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools \u2014 all in one place. Today, we\u2019re excited to announce WinUI Gallery 2.8, bringing jump list support, new samples, improved accessibility, and several quality-of-life improvements and bugfixes! 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