🦙📢 It's been an amazing celebration of #XAMLStudio v2 these last couple of weeks. 🎊 And so #WindowsDev to culminate it all, I'd like to announce that the project is now open-sourced! A seed project in the @dotnetfdn 🎉 Read all about this journey here: devblogs.microsoft.com/ifdef-window...

On the twelfth day of Christmas XAML Llama sent to me 🥁🥁 Twelve Designers Designing 🥁🥁 #XAMLStudio v2 adds more designer-like features. Such as modifying in-place w/ control-specific Adorners. e.g. a TextBlock's Text shown here; WIP, stay tuned for more. #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

On the 11th day of Christmas XAML Llama sent to me 🎺🎶 Eleven Properties Presented 🎺🎶 The new Properties panel in #XAMLStudio v2 shows the visual tree, visual states, and, or course, properties of an element. See what's been modified or make changes directly to experiment! #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

On the tenth day of Christmas XAML Llama sent to me 👑🦘 Ten VisualStates Visualized 👑🦘 #WindowsDev ever want to visualize your visual states? #XAMLStudio v2 will let you see and manipulate the active visual states of a #XAML control! 🤯 #12DaysOfXAML

On the eighth day of Christmas XAML Llama sent to me 🐄🥛 Eight Points Highlighted 🐄🥛 #XAMLStudio v2 is where the #WindowsCommunityToolkit #XAML Adorners are from! First used to highlight the bounds of elements just like Visual Studio, useful for mastering perfect layouts. #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

🎊 Happy New Year! 🎊 #WindowsDev using #XAML, have you been following the latest on #XAMLStudio? A new v2 is dropping this year! 🎉 Find out all about it with the #12DaysOfXAML below and join the windowsappcommunity.com/discord to get more insight in the xaml-studio channel!

On the seventh day of Christmas XAML Llama sent to me 🦢🥽 Seven Resources Loaded 🦢🥽 #XAMLStudio v2 can show you the contents of a #XAML #ResourceDictionary! That's right! Iterate easily on all your knobs 🎛️, bells 🔔, whistles 🚂, whatever! 😲 #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

On the 4th day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me 📞🐦 Four new Toolbar Buttons 📞🐦 The Quick Access Bar, introduced in v1.1, has a new set of tools coming in #XAMLStudio v2! Including preview refresh, show/hide the alignment grid, theme toggle, and more to be revealed! #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

On the third day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me 🍟🐔 Three Breadcrumbs 🍟🐔 or more of Navigation… Making it even easier to keep track of where you are within your #XAML document. Click to jump to bring that element's line in view. #12DaysOfXAML #XAMLStudio #WindowsDev

On the second day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me 🐢🕊 Two tabs duplicated 🐢🕊 It may not seem like much, but I use this all the time to iterate on different ideas. #XAMLStudio v2 will be filled with many improvements small and large #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me 🦙🍐🎄 A Llama in a #FluentUI #XAML Tree… 🦙🍐🎄 Happy Holidays! We're back for a classic twist to preview the upcoming 2026 #XAMLStudio v2 w/ #12DaysOfXAML! Now with a new Fluent coat 🧥! #WindowsDev 🦙🍐🎄

🦙📢 #WindowsDev the #WindowsCommunityToolkit just released v8.2.251219! An incremental update with a bunch of great fixes from our community! Update today! #WinUI #dotnet #XAML #UnoPlatform #WinAppSDK github.com/CommunityToo...

#WinUI #XAML Adorners + drag manipulation was a bit harder but working alright... some interactions and scenarios which need more work, but happy with this for now. 😈 #WindowsDev #WindowsCommunityToolkitLabs

A little sketch of a llama (Lama glama) for National Llama Day!! 💙🤘 Hope y'all are rockin' it as hard as we are! Paaaartaaaaay!! 🤣🦙 #llama #nationalllamaday #animal #animalart #nature #wildlife #cute #adorable #ArtYear #bskyart #sketch #pensketch #micronpens

🦙 #WindowsDev played more w/ #WinUI #XAML Adorners in #WindowsCommunityToolkitLabs. Needs more testing, but promising start based off code mostly already in the WCT 8.0 Sizer controls! <Canvas> <Rectangle ...> <ui:AdornerLayer.Xaml> <adorners:ResizeElementAdorner />

🦙 So, folks requested Input Validation, eh? Adorners make this work for any input field, and it's super simple... 😅 <NumberBox DataContext="{x:Bind VM}" Value="{x:Bind VM.Age,Mode=TwoWay}"> <ui:AdornerLayer.Xaml> <local:InputValidationAdorner PropertyName="Age" />

🦙 #WindowsDev just been reviving my experiment bringing #XAML based Adorners to #WinUI in #WindowsCommunityToolkitLabs. Coming soon™, quick to make Adorners with data binding, styling, and animations with all that XAML goodness! 🦙 github.com/CommunityToo...

🦙📢 Hey #WindowsDev, did you miss the Modern Windows Development with #dotnet talk at #dotnetconf yesterday? 😲 Have no fear, it's now on YouTube! 🎉 Learn all about #WinUI and #AIOnDevice with #FoundryLocal today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ8s...

🦙 #WindowsDev did you know the #WindowsCommunityToolkit is 9 years old?! 🎉 Learn about the whole history from start to now here: github.com/CommunityToo... #WinUI #UnoPlatform #UWP #dotnet #MVVM #XAML #Windows

🦙 #WindowsDev find out all about the #WindowsCommunityToolkit on @inotifypodcastchanged.com this week! 🧰 You won't want to miss it! You are using the Toolkit for your #WinUI apps, right? Save yourself time, make gorgeous apps!

The Microsoft Store on Windows 11 (and Windows 10) is actually really great these days. Here's what's improved and why you should definitely give it another chance: www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

#Developers looking to get started with #WinUI on #Windows? 🦙 Find out how to go from Zero to Hero with a complete tutorial of everything you need to know starting from scratch in #VisualStudio including learning about #XAML and #MVVM! #WindowsDev #dotnet 🦙 youtu.be/XO_LnDfsQmc?...

PowerToys v0.91 is here with TONS of Command Palette fixes and performance gains! New CmdPal features to call out: the activation shortcut can now use a low-level keyboard hook (i.e. Win+R or Win+Space) and you can now hide the system tray icon ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 github.com/microsoft/Po...

🦙 #WindowsDev implementing INotifyPropertyChanged again? Stop! Use the #MVVM Toolkit instead, and I better not see it on your #XAML controls... 👀 Find out all the info about when to use INPC over DependencyProperty here! 🧰 #WindowsAppSDK #WinUI #WPF www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGwz...

🦙 Building a #WinUI app with #XAML? I hope you're not just dumping all your code in MainWindow, right? 😱 Find out all you need to know about organizing your app code and XAML here! 🧰 #WindowsDev #WindowsAppSDK www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM7T...

🦙 #WindowsDev working with #WinUI? 💻 Ever have trouble customizing a templated control? 🤔 Need to go from zero to hero? 🦸 Have no fear, a video on debugging #XAML is here! 🪄

🦙📢 #WindowsDev check out the 8.2 release of the #WindowsCommunityToolkit 🎉 With support for #NativeAOT in #WindowsAppSDK 1.6+, @UnoPlatform 5.5+, #UWP Support for .NET 9, plus a multitude of improvements! 🎉 #WinUI #dotnet

The Command Palette is out now inside PowerToys! Check out v0.90 to get this latest utility - the evolution of PowerToys Run with a full extensibility model ⚡⚡ github.com/microsoft/Po...

I spy some new PowerToys goodness 👀 Command Palette coming soon to a build near you 👇 github.com/microsoft/Po...

Reunited with the Windows Terminal devs and we're cooking up something new. Here's a sneak peek of installing a winget package through a new utility coming soon to PowerToys: P.S. this is live working code 😉

Sorry there's been a gap since the last podcast episode, but now getting back into it again! Have just recorded the next episode with @jlaban.bsky.social where we chatted about the Uno Platform, and a pretty jaw-dropping new upcoming thing called Hot Design! @platform.uno #dotnet #UnhandledException

🦙📢 Hey #WindowsDev, there's a new preview of the #WindowsCommunityToolkit! It includes some great bug fixes, as well as #UWP support for .NET 9. Including our #NativeAOT support coming in this 8.2 update for #WinUI #WindowsAppSDK too. Release Notes: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Windows/relea…

Happy Llamadays!

🚀 Join the Windows Dev Chat on 12/12 at 9AM PT / 18:00 CET! This first themed episode will focus on streamlining supported client platforms for new developers ✨ Don't miss it! #WinDevChat Link: https://msft.it/6011oEBbS #WindowsDev

🦙 Happy National Llama Day! 🎉

🦙📢 #WindowsDev try the latest #WinUI #XAML Behaviors package preview! We've got Native #AOT support for .NET 8, a unified namespace to make them easier to use, PlaySoundAction for #WindowsAppSDK, support for UWP on .NET 9, and more! 🚀#csharp #UWP #dotnet https://github.com/microsoft/XamlBehaviors

I can see you're wondering what is up with all the .NET Community Toolkits 💡 At .NET Conf last week @xamlllama.bsky.social, Sergio and myself have talked about how we are organized, what we've been doing the past year and what's coming up. Go check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnU...

🦙📢 #WindowsDev try the 8.2 release of the #WindowsCommunityToolkit! This version supports Native AOT for WinUI, has a few bug fixes, and improvements to SwitchPresenter. Find out all you need in the release notes here:

My team has had a lot of fun working on the AI Dev Gallery and we are excited to share it with the world. Experiment with models and local AI in your Windows apps - get it here: github.com/microsoft/ai... #WindowsApps #AI #DevTools

🦙📢 Hey #WindowsDev! Check out our #dotNETConf "#MVVM Building Blocks for #WinUI and #WPF Development" video on YouTube! https://buff.ly/3VhWFz1 - It accidentally aired 12 hours earlier, so if you have questions, find Sergio and I on the Windows App Community Discord here: https://buff.ly/4hN4mGT

🦙 .NET developer? You use the #CommunityToolkit, right? Work smarter, not harder! 🧰 Find all the goodies for #dotnet developers during the "Community Toolkit Roundup", today at #dotNETConf 11/14 at 11AM PT, 2PM ET w/ me, @jfversluis.dev, and Sergio Pedri! dotnetconf.com #aspire #windows #maui

Hey .NET friends! @xamlllama.bsky.social and I will be talking about what's new in WinUI and Windows App SDK 1.6 today at #dotnetconf today. Come check out our session at 6pm ET. www.dotnetconf.net/agenda#750250

🦙📢 Join me and @baldbeardedbuilder.com at #dotNETConf today, 11/13 at 3PM PT (6PM ET), to find the latest on #WinUI and #WindowsAppSDK 1.6! We'll talk about NAOT and TabView tear out and end with what's ahead for 1.7! dotnetconf.net #csharp #dotnet #windowsdev #visualstudio #naot