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Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v8.0

September 7, 2023 Sep 7, 2023 09/7/23

Michael Hawker

Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v8.0 🎉🎉🎉 It's here! The Windows Community Toolkit is back with a huge update with an array of improvements and features. We're happy to announce that version 8.0 is available today! Made possible again with the support and contributions of our developer community. 🎉 If you're new to the ...

Windows Community Toolkit 8.0 Pre-release

August 23, 2023 Aug 23, 2023 08/23/23

Michael Hawker

The Windows Community Toolkit 8.0 Pre-release (image) We're thrilled to announce the first official pre-release packages for the Windows Community Toolkit 8.0 have been released to NuGet.org! 🎉🎉🎉 This blog is going to provide a brief overview of how to get started using these preview packages and how to provide feedback. This ...

Microsoft Store Open Source Series — AppServices library

June 27, 2023 Jun 27, 2023 06/27/23

Sergio Pedri

(image) 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 ...

Introducing the Microsoft Store channel on Discord

June 15, 2023 Jun 15, 2023 06/15/23

Sergio Pedri

(image) 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 ...

The Windows Community Toolkit 2023 Update

April 20, 2023 Apr 20, 2023 04/20/23

Michael Hawker

(image) It's been a pretty busy year for the Windows Community Toolkit (WCT), even though you may not realize it! We wanted to share what we've been working on, why it's important, where things are at, and how you can help! If you're new to the Toolkits, you can find an introduction video to them here. In 2022, we announced the Windows ...

Windows Community Toolkit Labs Experiments are Here!

November 9, 2022 Nov 9, 2022 11/9/22

Michael Hawker

In this post, we talk about the new Windows Community Toolkit Labs and some initial experiments that we're looking for feedback on.

Announcing the Windows Community Toolkit Labs!

July 20, 2022 Jul 20, 2022 07/20/22

Michael Hawker

In this post, we talk about the new Community Toolkit Labs for Windows as the future starting point for components in the Windows Community Toolkit.

Leveraging trimming to make the Microsoft Store faster and reduce its binary size

June 30, 2022 Jun 30, 2022 06/30/22

Sergio Pedri

In this post, we will talk about how we restructured our codebase to minimize our use of reflection and to enable trimming, making the Microsoft Store faster and reducing its binary size