microsoft/WinAppVSCE

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The WinApp extension brings the Windows App Development CLI (WinApp CLI) into Visual Studio Code so you can initialize, debug, package, and sign Windows applications without leaving the editor.

Stars: 13
Forks: 3
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 66
Avg merge: 6d 1h
Merged PRs (30d): 11

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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66 open issues indexed

[Feature]: Usage on a MAUI app? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#254 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[Bug]: C++ project breakpoint not hit Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#253 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Multi-root workspaces: project-context commands only ever see `workspaceFolders[0]` Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#251 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Pin the bundled winappcli version (or detect version skew) instead of always downloading `latest` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#250 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Surface `winapp run --debug-output` / `--symbols` for crash triage Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#249 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
cert generate: guard against older CLIs that lack --if-exists / --json Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#248 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[Feature]: Modernize the `winapp manifest *` command surface for CLI v0.6.x Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#247 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
`winapp sign`: support `--password` and `--timestamp`, and move off terminal command strings Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#246 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[Feature]: Surface `--output`, `--valid-days` and `--export-cer` in `winapp cert generate` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#243 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[Feature]: Support custom certificate passwords in `winapp cert` commands Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#242 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
vsce-testing: orphaned `.drive-udd-*` dirs accumulate when a run never reaches teardown Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#237 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
XAML server: Native AOT is feasible with no functional cost; work is out-of-proc project load Open

xaml

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#233 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Distinguish "project not loaded yet" from "no definition found" for F12 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#230 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
XAML F12 on SDK and NuGet types: consider a docs link or synthesized declaration Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#223 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
XAML Language Server: WinMD-based type resolution for C++/WinRT projects Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#222 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
XAML Language Server: Basic C++/WinRT project support (syntactic features) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#221 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Go to Definition should never block on a project load Open

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#220 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 3, 2026
[Feature]: Update WinUI templates to include launch.json + VSCE Recommendation Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#219 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Feature]: Explain and allow overriding XAML project ownership when resolution fails Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#217 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
XAML server: in-flight project loads can cache a pre-invalidation graph Open

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#215 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
XAML: extract a shared dismissible-notification helper Open

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#213 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
XAML server: bound Content-Length and header sizes in JsonRpcConnection Open

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#214 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
XAML: add a setting to disable auto-suggest without disabling IntelliSense Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#212 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
XAML: constrain document-link targets to allowed roots Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#210 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
XAML: Show color swatches for named colors (e.g. Red, CornflowerBlue) Open

enhancement

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#209 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
[Feature]: Complete x:Bind assignment and accessibility diagnostics Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#203 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
[Feature]: Add mechanical quick fixes for XAML diagnostics Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#202 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
[Bug]: XAML diagnostics flag valid platform SystemColor resources Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#201 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Add request-path coverage for completion during XAML project reload Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#200 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
[Bug]: Manifest visual editor loses tab/scroll state when the XML is edited in the text editor Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#192 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
[Bug]: Visual asset fields warn "Image not found in package directory" for MRT-qualified assets (.scale-200, .targetsize-24_altform-unplated, etc.) Open

bug

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#191 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Consolidate XAML markup-extension metadata catalogs Open

enhancement language-server

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#180 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Manifest editor exposes arbitrary local file existence through checkImagePath Open

language-server

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#167 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Share canonical path-boundary helpers for XAML services Open

enhancement language-server

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#164 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Consolidate XAML server publish and payload validation Open

enhancement language-server

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#165 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
[Docs]: Refresh the E2E test inventory Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#160 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Remove GH_TOKEN before executing downloaded WinApp CLI Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#159 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
[Bug]: Browse E2E does not verify native file selection Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#155 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Test: Add VS Code integration tests for completion/hover provider registration Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#153 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Bug: Form editor replaces CDATA sections with escaped text on save Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#152 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Bug: Form editor cannot independently edit repeated sibling elements (e.g. multiple FileType entries) Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#151 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
[Feature]: sign: cap package discovery without losing newest-first ordering Open

enhancement

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#150 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Test: Add diagnostics provider lifecycle coverage Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#149 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Build: Remove PATH fallback in sync-schemas.ps1 CLI resolution Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#147 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
UX: Consolidate feature naming across commands, notifications, and docs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#145 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Enhancement: Enforce maxOccurs and xs:choice exclusivity in schema validation Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#144 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
[Docs]: Decide whether to document programmatic winapp.tool invocation Open

documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#143 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
IntelliSense: add per-document analysis cache to avoid redundant XML parsing Open

enhancement hold-fix performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#134 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
IntelliSense: auto-insert xmlns declarations for undeclared namespace completions Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#133 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Test coverage gaps: diagnostics lifecycle, save-flush, image-path, nested properties Open

enhancement

microsoft/WinAppVSCE#131 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 30, 2026

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