Microsoft releases WinUI 2.7: Update InfoBadge information badge and other functions-Windows 10

WinUI is a Windows UI library suitable for UWP (Universal Windows Applications) and desktop applications using XAML Islands. Now, Microsoft has launched the latest WinUI 2.7 version.As an open source project, Microsoft hosts it in a repository on GitHub, so that developers can summarize and submit WinUI 2 series bug reports, feature requests, and contribute code to the community.

First of all, the WinUI 2.7 update introduced the “InfoBadge” (InfoBadge). As a set of intuitive and non-intrusive solutions, it can indicate notifications, display alerts, highlight new content, or draw the focus to a certain area of ​​the application.

Each InfoBadge’s small UI can be customized and embedded in an application to display numbers, icons, or a simple dot.

InfoBadge is also built into the NavigationView control and can be specified as an independent element in the XAML tree, allowing developers to place it in any space or UI part of their choice. For more details, please go to the official website of Microsoft to view the usage guide and API reference.

The second is the direction in the color picker (ColorPicker). Developers can specify the Orientation property of the control to edit the vertical or horizontal alignment of the control relative to the color picker area. For more details, please go to the official website of Microsoft to view ColorPicker’s usage guide and API reference.

Then some examples:

● The XAML Controls Gallery sample application contains such detailed WinUI features and controls.

● If you have installed the XAML control library application and updated it to the latest version, you can refer to more examples of controls.

● If you have not installed the XAML control library application, please download it from the Microsoft Store.

● In addition, developers can move to GitHub to view, copy, and build the source code of the XAML control library.

Finally, for the bug fixes of WinUI 2.7, please refer to the change log on GitHub.

All stable versions (and pre-release versions) can be downloaded through the GitHub release page (or through Microsoft’s NuGet).

In addition, developers can add WinUI to a specific project in the Visual Studio integrated development environment through the NuGet package manager.

For more details, please refer to the introduction to Windows UI 2 Library.