Allow authoring attributes native winrt api surface in C#
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Since Sep 14, 2020.
authoring
cswinmd
enhancement
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Description
The latest IDL syntax is very close to C#, but it still has limitations. Most notably, there is no syntax highlighting or intellisense. It would be great to just leverage the great C# toolchain that we have, including the ability to use docfx to generate WinRT API information. The WinUI team has been authoring APIs in C# for years, and we have a custom tool that converts it to .idl. Authoring APIs in C# is nice, but having to maintain this tool is incredibly taxing.
Basically what this ask is, is that I can take a .NET ref assembly and run it through the new winmdexp tool and produce a .winmd.
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