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It’s with great pleasure today that we announce the next update to the Windows Community Toolkit, version 5.1, made possible with help and contributions from our developer community. This update brings high-quality animation support with the inclusion of Lottie-Windows in the toolkit. In addition, it provides a control for choosing Remote Devices, a new Image Cropping control, and many control accessibility fixes.
See more details on these features below.
Animations with Lottie-Windows
This provides high quality animation support on Windows 10 (1809) by utilizing the Windows.UI.Composition APIs and allows for the consumption of Bodymovin JSON files or optimized code-generated classes for playback in your Windows apps. It is the successor to the community project.
Try installing the new from the Microsoft Store to test out animations and generate optimized code for your Windows apps.
Documentation for .
Remote Device Picker
The Remote Device Picker allows a user to select a device, proximally or cloud accessible, from a dialog. The app can then use this information to perform various scenarios like opening and communicating with an app on the chosen device. Read more about what’s possible after selecting a device like or .
This is possible with which allows building people-centric experiences across devices and platforms (Android, Windows, iOS). For examplehaving your app or website (using MS Graph APIs) continue a task to another device or create companion experiences that can communicate with each other across devices, like a remote control.
Documentation for . Read more about Project Rome capabilities .
Image Cropper
The new Image Cropper control allows you to provide effortless image cropping functionality to your app. Perfect for user selected profile pictures and photo editing tools.
Documentation for .
Accessibility Improvements
We’ve been striving to increase the accessibility of our controls in the last release and this one. This update provides more fixes to keyboard navigation, high contrast, and narrator readability to the toolkit controls.
.NET Core 3.0 Preview for WPF and WinForms Packages
With the recent release of , we’ve shipped a toolkit 6.0 preview package for our WPF/WinForms library to support it. Please download it here for or to give it a try in your .NET Core applications. Report any issues .
Get started today
There are a lot more updates than we can cover here, be sure to read the for more details on all the fixes provided in this update.
As a reminder, you can get started by following , or preview the latest features by installing the from the Microsoft Store. If you would like to contribute, ! To join the conversation on Twitter, use the #WindowsToolkit hashtag.
Happy coding!
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See more details on these features below.
Animations with Lottie-Windows
This provides high quality animation support on Windows 10 (1809) by utilizing the Windows.UI.Composition APIs and allows for the consumption of Bodymovin JSON files or optimized code-generated classes for playback in your Windows apps. It is the successor to the community project.
Try installing the new from the Microsoft Store to test out animations and generate optimized code for your Windows apps.
Documentation for .
Remote Device Picker
The Remote Device Picker allows a user to select a device, proximally or cloud accessible, from a dialog. The app can then use this information to perform various scenarios like opening and communicating with an app on the chosen device. Read more about what’s possible after selecting a device like or .
This is possible with which allows building people-centric experiences across devices and platforms (Android, Windows, iOS). For examplehaving your app or website (using MS Graph APIs) continue a task to another device or create companion experiences that can communicate with each other across devices, like a remote control.
Documentation for . Read more about Project Rome capabilities .
Image Cropper
The new Image Cropper control allows you to provide effortless image cropping functionality to your app. Perfect for user selected profile pictures and photo editing tools.
Documentation for .
Accessibility Improvements
We’ve been striving to increase the accessibility of our controls in the last release and this one. This update provides more fixes to keyboard navigation, high contrast, and narrator readability to the toolkit controls.
.NET Core 3.0 Preview for WPF and WinForms Packages
With the recent release of , we’ve shipped a toolkit 6.0 preview package for our WPF/WinForms library to support it. Please download it here for or to give it a try in your .NET Core applications. Report any issues .
Get started today
There are a lot more updates than we can cover here, be sure to read the for more details on all the fixes provided in this update.
As a reminder, you can get started by following , or preview the latest features by installing the from the Microsoft Store. If you would like to contribute, ! To join the conversation on Twitter, use the #WindowsToolkit hashtag.
Happy coding!
The post appeared first on .