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Announcing: WinUI 2.7! 🎉💻🍂

See original GitHub issue

The team has just released WinUI 2.7! This release contains a few new features and several bug fixes picked up from the 2.6.x patches.

Release highlights

New controls

InfoBadge: A small piece of UI that non-intrusively and intuitively displays notifications or brings focus to an area within an app - whether that be for notifications, indicating new content, or showing an alert.

New features

Horizontal Orientation in ColorPicker: You can now set the Orientation of a ColorPicker to switch between a vertical or horizontal layout
- Huge shoutout to @chingucoding for contributing the horizontal ColorPicker! 🎨

Bug fixes

To see the full list of bugs fixed in this release, see the official GitHub release.

Get started

If you’re new to WinUI, get started by following the steps in this doc: Getting started with the WinUI 2.x library

If you’ve used WinUI in the past, get started with 2.7 by downloading the latest NuGet package: NuGet Download

Helpful links and resources

Release Notes - learn more about what’s new in this release

XAML Controls Gallery - a sample WinUI app that shows you all of our controls in action, including the new controls and features in this release

API Reference Documentation - in-depth details about the new APIs added for this release

WinUI Design Toolkit - Figma toolkit with controls and examples for designing your Win11 applications

Thank you!

Your contributions as a developer community have been incredibly valuable in shipping WinUI. We’d like to extend a big thank you to everyone who contributed to this release by filing or fixing bugs, requesting features, implementing features, and generally being a significant part of the development process!