Windows 10: Windows Template Studio 2.2 released

Brink · Jun 13, 2018

We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 2.2!

For the next few releases, we are doing smaller updates to add in new pages and fixes. The reason being is we are working toward multi-project solution support for 3.0 and adjusting our templates to support that. This is a large sum of work but want to be sure we are still improving where we can now.

As always, we love how the community is helping. If you’re interested, please head over to head over to WTS’s Github.

What’s new:

For the full list of adjustments in the 2.2 release, WTS’s Github has a full changelog.

Included in this version:

3D Launcher feature

Wizard enhancements

Improved documentation

Improved testing

Bug fixes

Dev platform updates:

Updated Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform to 6.15

Updated Newtonsoft.Json to 11.0.2

Updated Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp, Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications and Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.UI.Controls to 3.0.0

Update Telerik.UI.for.UniversalWindowsPlatform to 1.0.1

How to get the update:

There are two paths to update to the newest build.

Already installed: Visual Studio should auto update the extension. To force an update, Go to Tools->Extensions and Updates. Then go to Update expander on the left and you should see Windows Template Studio in there and click “Update.”

Not installed: Head to Windows Template Studio - Visual Studio Marketplace
, click “download” and double click the VSIX installer.

What else is cooking for next versions?

We love all the community support and participation. In addition, here are just a few of the things we are currently building out that will be in future builds:

Menubar navigation pattern template

WinUI Library nuget package integration

Continued refinement with Fluent Design in the templates

Work for supporting multiple projects in a single solution

Ink templates

User Activity APIs for Timeline support

Improved Right-click->add support for existing projects

With partnership with the community, we will continue cranking out and iterating new features and functionality. We’re always looking for additional people to help out and if you’re interested, please head to our GitHub at GitHub - Microsoft/WindowsTemplateStudio: Windows Template Studio quickly builds a UWP app, using a wizard-based UI to turn your needs into a foundation of Windows 10 patterns and best practices.. If you have an idea or feature request, please make the request!
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Source: Windows Template Studio 2.2 released! - Windows Developer Blog

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Brink · Jun 14, 2018

Windows Template Studio 1.2 released

We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.2. What makes this release even more special is we’ve been accepted into the .NET Foundation! We are thrilled to be accepted in.

In this release, our major new feature is adding content into an existing application with Right-click add. We’ve grown up past only File->New

What’s new:

Full list of adjustments in the 1.2 release, head over to WTS’s Github.

Improvements to the Wizard:

Add new content to existing WTS generated projects in your solution window via right-click

We will be working toward seeing how we can enable this for non-WTS generated projects

Adjusted ordering of templates based on popularity and logical groupings

Under the hood, we’ve done a lot of work toward localization and started some accessibility improvements

Simplified descriptions

Logo adjustment to help at smaller icon sizes

Feature updates:

First-time load prompt

What’s New prompt

Template improvements:

Upgraded references to UWP Community Toolkit 1.5

Styling adjustments

Template generation post-action improvements

Process improvements:

Added in pull request template

Added in Issue template

How to get the update:

There are two paths to update to the newest build:

Already installed: Visual Studio should auto update the extension. To force an update, Go to Tools->Extensions and Updates. Then go to Update expander on the left and you should see Windows Template Studio in there and click “Update”

Not installed: Head to Windows Template Studio - Visual Studio Marketplace, click “download” and double click the VSIX installer.

What else is cooking for next versions?

We love all the community support and participation. In addition, here are just a few of the things we are currently building out that will in future builds:

Fluent design in the templates

Project Rome features as options for your project

Ink templates

Improved Right-click->add support for existing projects

Localization in the wizard

Full accessibility supported in both wizard and in the templates

Visual Basic support

With partnership with the community, we’ve will continue cranking out and iterating new features and functionality. We’re always looking for additional people to help out and if you’re interested, please head to our GitHub at Microsoft/WindowsTemplateStudio. If you have an idea or feature request, please make the request!

.NET Foundation:

We are happy to say that we’ve been accepted into the .NET Foundation. Such great open source projects like .NET Core, Roslyn and UWP Community Toolkit are just a few of the projects there, and now Windows Template Studio will be there as well!
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Source: Windows Template Studio 1.2 released! - Building Apps for Windows

Brink · Jun 14, 2018

Windows Template Studio 1.3 Released

We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.3.

In this release, we added in app scheme launch, finalized our work for localization, massive improvements in accessibility and started our work for Visual Basic support.

What’s new:

For a full list of adjustments in the 1.3 release, head over to WTS’s Github.

New Feature:

Scheme to launch app (aka myAwesomeApp://myDeepLinksIntoMyApp?foo=bar)

Template improvements:

Default Windows theme support added to template

Files are now UTF-8 with BOM to make sure all cultures are supported

Accessibility support in templates

Improvements to the Wizard:

Accessibility support in Wizard drastically improved

Lots of under the hood bug fixes and code improvements

All needed parts for localization are built-in now (looks like we missed window to get actual localized files)

Initial VB engine work was added in.

Bug fixes

Process improvements:

StyleCop enforcements across Template and Wizard code bases

Appveyor added for pull requests to be sure we have proper continuous integration checks

Required work for .NET Foundation

How to get the update:

There are two paths to update to the newest build.

Already installed: Visual Studio should auto update the extension. To force an update, Go to Tools->Extensions and Updates. Then go to Update expander on the left and you should see Windows Template Studio in there. Click “Update.”

Not installed: Head to Windows Template Studio - Visual Studio Marketplace, click “download” and double click the VSIX installer.

What else is cooking for next versions?

We love all the community support and participation. In addition, here are just a few of the things we are currently building out that will be in future builds:

Fluent Design in the templates

Ink templates

Improved Right-click->add support for existing projects

Localization in the wizard

Visual Basic support

Micro support

Prism support

With partnership with the community, we will continue cranking out and iterating new features and functionality. We’re always looking for additional people to help out and if you’re interested, please head to our GitHub at Microsoft/WindowsTemplateStudio. If you have an idea or feature request, please make the request!
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Source: Windows Template Studio 1.3 Released! - Building Apps for Windows

Brink · Jun 14, 2018

Announcing Windows Template Studio

Today, we are pleased to announce the next evolution in your File → New Universal Windows Platform app in Visual Studio – Windows Template Studio. Windows Template Studio addresses a top community ask in our developer survey to make it easier and provide guidance to create new projects that target the Universal Windows Platform. In this post, we’d like to spend a few minutes introducing Windows Template Studio and show you how it works.

Windows Template Studio uses a dev-friendly wizard to get your UWP apps to F5 in no time, bringing together the pages, frameworks and features that you want. Our wizard walks developers through four steps to quickly scaffold a new UWP app:

Project Type: Select between standard layouts and predefined controls.

Framework selection: Select the structure of your UWP app with in-house and third-party support.

App pages: Select which pages that make sense for the app, that you are trying to create.

App features: Easily add features such as background tasks with one click.

Furthermore, we’re open-sourcing Windows Template Studio, welcoming UWP devs to take the generation engine further – adding additional capabilities and app pages, improving the implemented best practices and patterns – and encouraging UWP devs to make the engine their own – tailoring it to their company’s specific needs.

Windows Template Studio is the evolution of Windows App Studio. App Studio was a free, online app creation tool that allowed developers and enthusiasts to quickly build Windows Universal Apps. We are taking our learnings from the code generation engine and the existing wizard to provide a strong foundation for our code generation and developer experience in Windows Template Studio.

A Lap Around Windows Template Studio

We kick off Windows Template Studio by creating a new UWP app project. In the Visual Studio 2017 ‘New Project’ dialog, select the Visual C# → Windows Universal node.

Here you’ll see the Windows Template Studio project. Select the project type, enter in your new UWP app’s name and click ‘OK’. Windows Template Studio will now fire up and walk you through the UWP app creation wizard, step by step.

Step 1: Project Type
You begin by selecting a project type. We’ve started you with the most common types such as: blank, navigation pane and pivot and tabs.

Step 2: Framework
Once you have selected a project type, you need to select a framework. You can select from Code behind, MVVM Basic or the very popular MVVM Light.

Step 3: Pages and app lifecycle features
Once you have selected a project and framework, then it is time to add in pages and features. We’ve already added the most common pages such as Master/Detail, Settings and Web view. You can also easily add in Application Lifecycle features such as Suspend and Resume as well as Background Work and User Interaction.

Best practices and patterns

To wrap all of this up, with a couple of simple clicks, you can wire up an app that uses the Navigation Pane, MVVM Light framework, a Master Detail page and a couple of features such as suspend and resume and Azure hub notifications. You save time, your app is adhering to our design guidance and industry standard patterns and practices come free.

Below is an example of an app generated with Windows Template Studio. Again, we provide the foundation of a great UWP app and get you to F5 in a couple of clicks.

Get Started Today

Windows Template Studio v1.0 is available now and you can expect updates every 6 weeks. We have extremely easy to use instructions for installing the VS extension on our GitHub page as well. A public roadmap is currently available and we’d encourage you to check out The Tips and Tricks for UWP Developer session that was shown at Build to learn more. You can get started creating your own app in three simple steps:

Download Visual Studio 2017 and select Universal Windows Platform development under Workloads.

Install the Visual Studio Extension for Windows Template Studio by downloading the VSIX from the Visual Studio Gallery.

Once installed, open Visual Studio 2017 and select File→ New Project→ C# → Windows Universal and you should see the new template that was just added.

And Best of All…Windows Template Studio is Open Source

Windows Template Studio is completely open-source and available now on GitHub. This project is community led and we’re very excited to already have contributions from the following community members: Matt Lacey and James Croft. We would love for you to contribute to the project and would encourage you to read our contribution guidelines for next steps.

In the spirit of being transparent, the roadmap for the next release is always available. If you have a bug that you would like to report or share a feature request, then please add it to our issue tracker.

We would love to hear how your experiences are using it and the helpfulness of the project. You can reach Clint at @clintrutkas and Michael at @mbcrump. What are you waiting for? Go and try it out for yourself now!
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