The early preview version of WinUI 3 Preview 3 has been released for some time, and the official said it will officially GA this year.
New features in WinUI 3 Preview 3
- Support ARM64
- Support drag and drop operations inside and outside the app
- Support RenderTargetBitmap (currently only contains XAML context, no SwapChainPanel context)
- Improve the experience of using development tools:
- Live Visual Tree, Hot Reload, Live Property Explorer, and similar tools
- Intellisense is now available for WinUI 3
- Support MRT Core
- This function makes APP start faster, lighter, and provides faster resource search
- Support custom cursor
- Out-of-thread input
- Adopt a new and concise Grid definition syntax, which is a community-driven feature request
It should be noted that WinUI 3 Preview 3 is still an early product, there are many known issues and limitations , and it is not suitable for production environments.
From WinUI 3 of the Roadmap view, WinUI 3 Preview 3 and the official version has been very close in functionality, we believe the official version will not add more features, mainly to perfect and optimize the existing basis.
Windows UI Library (WinUI) is a native user experience (UX) framework for Windows desktop and UWP applications . It was announced as open source at the 2018 Microsoft Developer Conference .
WinUI 3 is the next version of WinUI. It is a native Windows 10 UI platform completely separated from the Windows 10 SDK . By completely separating XAML, synthesis, and input API from the Windows 10 SDK , WinUI 3 covers the complete Windows 10 native UI platform.