v1.7-exp1

[RDMacLachlan]

1.7.0 Experimental 1 (1.7.241114004-experimental1) 🧪

WinAppSDK 1.7.241114004 Experimental 1 introduces several exciting new features designed to enhance the development experience and expand application functionality. This release includes the new CameraCaptureUI API, which simplifies the process of capturing photos and videos within your WinAppSDK app. Additionally, the OAuth2Manager API has been added to provide a streamlined solution for web authentication, bringing OAuth 2.0 capabilities with full feature parity across all Windows platforms. These enhancements allow developers to create more interactive, secure, and media-rich user experiences.

Furthermore, the release features the new BackgroundTaskBuilder API, offering integrated support for background task registration in WinAppSDK apps. This API enables developers to manage background tasks more efficiently, ensuring that applications perform essential operations even when not actively in use. Overall, WinAppSDK 1.7.0 Experimental 1 empowers developers with powerful tools to create more sophisticated, secure, and user-friendly applications, paving the way for innovative and effective software solutions.

Check out the release notes for all of the new and updated features, limitations, and known issues.

Updating to this version

The 1.7.241114004-experimental1 package is available at: NuGet

Additionally, for those testing deployment of unpackaged apps, download the Windows App SDK Installers and MSIX packages here.

What's Changed

• Bug Fix for Cannot install version 1.3: DDLM package not found by @ssparach in Bug Fix for Cannot install version 1.3: DDLM package not found #4890
• [main] Update dependencies from microsoft/LiftedIXP/DCPP by @dotnet-maestro in [main] Update dependencies from microsoft/LiftedIXP/DCPP #4870
• Remove Invalid character from DevCheck Password Gen by @kythant in Remove Invalid character from DevCheck Password Gen #4903

New Contributors

• @ssparach made their first contribution in Bug Fix for Cannot install version 1.3: DDLM package not found #4890

Full Changelog: v1.6.3...v1.7-exp1

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This discussion was created from the release v1.7-exp1.

[ghost1372]

Typo issue
The 1.7.241114004-experimental2

[w-ahmad]

Interestingly this release is labeled as latest, not the prerelease.

[DarranRowe]

Where do you see that?

The NuGet website clearly states that it is prerelease, and Visual Studio clearly shows it is prerelease and does not show it if Include prerelease isn't checked.

[w-ahmad]

I see that in github release section.

[lostluna1]

我在 github 发布部分看到了这一点。

it's true

[duwenlong2]

Will the 1.7 version update the new inkcanvas?
Is there a new ink recognition library available? The recognition rate under UWP is very poor

[mominshaikhdevs]

you can file a github issue for that.

[castorix]

What do you mean by "recognition rate is very poor" ?
I tested Simple inking sample
and it seems to work correctly for recognition (tested in french and english)

[duwenlong2]

We tested both Chinese and English;
In a Chinese speaking environment:
The recognition rate for neat writing is 97%, and when I checked italic writing, the recognition rate for oblique writing is 90%. Writing a poem vertically was recognized as a single word;
Chinese English mixed writing: 15 English words and 75 Chinese characters. Can be recognized as a language. For example, after writing English, the remaining Chinese characters will be recognized as strange characters.
The main scene is neat writing, writing diagonally. Chinese English mixed writing.
May I ask if there have been any updates to ink handwriting on the Windows system in recent years? If so, where can I get updated logs.

[duwenlong2]

you can file a github issue for that.

May I ask if I can submit an issue under app sdk?

[Osirisoo0O]

ApplicationTrigger still not usable with OOP task.
Can you provide a C# wasdk sample? Thanks!

[godlytalias]

For registering WinRT component for Background Task you can use Windows.ApplicationModel.Background APIs. Only for full trust COM, those APIs will throw exception (for majority of the triggers)

[godlytalias]

@Osirisoo0O I'd added C# sample here, microsoft/WindowsAppSDK-Samples@e123eae
Please let me know whether that helps, Thanks

[Osirisoo0O]

First，Thank you for this sample.
Perhaps there is an issue with my description.I am unable to register using ApplicationTrigger in the wasdk app.
When I use code below:

static readonly ApplicationTrigger _trigger = new();

string Name = nameof(TestTask).ToString(); 
string TaskEntryPoint =typeof(TestTask).FullName;
var builder = new Windows.ApplicationModel.Background.BackgroundTaskBuilder
{     
     TaskEntryPoint = TaskEntryPoint,
     Name = Name
};
builder.SetTrigger(_trigger);

builder.Register();

I got some message like that:

Error: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800700B7)
   at WinRT.ExceptionHelpers.<ThrowExceptionForHR>g__Throw|38_0(Int32 hr)
   at WinRT.ExceptionHelpers.ThrowExceptionForHR(Int32 hr)
   at ABI.Windows.ApplicationModel.Background.IBackgroundTaskBuilderMethods.Register(IObjectReference _obj)
   at Windows.ApplicationModel.Background.BackgroundTaskBuilder.Register()
   at App.MainWindow.RegisterTask()

Could you help me? thanks!

[godlytalias]

This exception would most probably because the task you're registering is not 'Windows Runtime component'. You can once check that. Also in case of Win32 apps, the same ApplicationTrigger requirements can be easily done by dispatching those tasks to threadpool threads because it don't have lifetime management issues like that of UWP. Is there some specific requirement you're trying to achieve?

[Osirisoo0O]

I am making some attempts to smooth out the differences between UWP and WASDK, in order to facilitate the migration of projects from UWP to WASDK.
There is some sample. Osirisoo0O/WASDKSample

[Gaoyifei1011]

1.7.0 Experimental 1 (1.7.241114004-experimental1) 🧪

WinAppSDK 1.7.241114004 Experimental 1 introduces several exciting new features designed to enhance the development experience and expand application functionality. This release includes the new CameraCaptureUI API, which simplifies the process of capturing photos and videos within your WinAppSDK app. Additionally, the OAuth2Manager API has been added to provide a streamlined solution for web authentication, bringing OAuth 2.0 capabilities with full feature parity across all Windows platforms. These enhancements allow developers to create more interactive, secure, and media-rich user experiences.

Furthermore, the release features the new BackgroundTaskBuilder API, offering integrated support for background task registration in WinAppSDK apps. This API enables developers to manage background tasks more efficiently, ensuring that applications perform essential operations even when not actively in use. Overall, WinAppSDK 1.7.0 Experimental 1 empowers developers with powerful tools to create more sophisticated, secure, and user-friendly applications, paving the way for innovative and effective software solutions.

Check out the release notes for all of the new and updated features, limitations, and known issues.

Updating to this version

The 1.7.241114004-experimental1 package is available at: NuGet

Additionally, for those testing deployment of unpackaged apps, download the Windows App SDK Installers and MSIX packages here.

What's Changed

• Bug Fix for Cannot install version 1.3: DDLM package not found by @ssparach in Bug Fix for Cannot install version 1.3: DDLM package not found #4890
• [main] Update dependencies from microsoft/LiftedIXP/DCPP by @dotnet-maestro in [main] Update dependencies from microsoft/LiftedIXP/DCPP #4870
• Remove Invalid character from DevCheck Password Gen by @kythant in Remove Invalid character from DevCheck Password Gen #4903

New Contributors

• @ssparach made their first contribution in Bug Fix for Cannot install version 1.3: DDLM package not found #4890

Full Changelog: v1.6.3...v1.7-exp1

This discussion was created from the release v1.7-exp1.

In the Windows AppSDK 1.7 roadmap there are appwindow set window size properties, but I did not find the corresponding api, when to enter Windows AppSDK 1.7?