[Future] 7.1 Release Plan

[michael-hawker]

7.1 Release Plan

Main Theme: Release focused on incremental improvements to existing scenarios and Identity/Graph.

Secondary Themes:

• Improving Docs and Samples.

The plan

Milestone
Feature Board
Bug Board
Technical Board
Sample Board
 
Below is a summary of the top level plan items. These items are in addition to everything that was initially released with the preview.
 
Legend of annotations:

Symbol	Description
✋	Help Wanted
0️⃣	priority 0 - must have for this release
1️⃣	priority 1 - nice to have for this release
2️⃣	priority 2 - stretch goal - unlikely for this release but we will try our best
❕	missing issue reference
🔦	investigating

Planning/Discussions

• Finalize ColorCode Migration/Transition

Technical Debt

• 0️⃣ Pipeline for Sample App
• 0️⃣ Clean-up Backlog
• 0️⃣ Accessibility Audit
• 1️⃣ Make it easier to work with Repo [Repo] Create Solution Filters or some solution for managing size of toolkit #3270 -> Creating .NET Community Toolkit
• ✋ 1️⃣ 🔦 Add Mocking for Unit Tests [Tests] Investigate how we can use Moq (or similar) in Unit Tests to fake WinRT APIs #3196
• 1️⃣ Have Code Coverage in CI (not a gate though) Improve Code Coverage/Add to CI #3475

Refactors

• 0️⃣ GridSplitter/ContentSizer work Redesign of GridSplitter API #2976
• 1️⃣ Investigate using ItemsRepeater for base of some panels
  • 1️⃣ ❕ AdaptiveGridView as Panel/Layout?
• 1️⃣ Clean-up control styles to expose a named Default Style (otherwise it's hard to inherit properly - see TokenizingTextBox/PeoplePicker)
• 2️⃣ Investigate ItemsRepeater Helpers
  • 2️⃣ Selection Helper (prototype done) - SDK Check
  • 2️⃣ Grouping (prototype done)

New Features

• 0️⃣ 🔦 Create XAML based DropShadow API helper (PR Attached Shadows (Composition and Win2D + Animations) #4179)
• 0️⃣ Metadata Control Add MetadataControl #3686
• 0️⃣ RichSuggestBox Implement RichSuggestBox #3650
• 0️⃣ MVVM Toolkit Source Generators [Feature] MVVM Toolkit vNext: source generators! 🚀 dotnet#8
• 0️⃣ 🔦 More Graph Controls / Improvements
• 0️⃣ Control Width VSM Trigger Adding control size trigger #3867
• 1️⃣ 🔦 Integrate Monaco wrapper to Toolkit Text Editor component Labs-Windows#693 -> Labs?
• 1️⃣ Two-pane ListDetailsView Support Windows 10X and Two-pane view support #3768
• 1️⃣ Voice Command Trigger Behavior VoiceCommand trigger added to Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.UI.Behaviors (#3392) #3661
• 1️⃣ 🔦 Create XAML Light based XAML helpers [Feature] XamlLight Composition XAML Helper #3361
• ✋ 2️⃣ AdvancedCollectionView Improvements AdvancedCollectionView part deux #1128
• ✋ 2️⃣ RotatorTile OnCurrentItemChanging Event [Feature]RotatorTile OnCurrentItemChanging #2994
• ✋ 2️⃣ Gaze Input Cursor Color [Feature] Add GazeInput.SetCursorBrush method to change the default GazeCursor color #3210

Bugs

• 🔦 Investigate main bugs to call out we want to prioritize here above others.
• Infinite Canvas