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The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.

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Forks: 471
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 358
Avg merge: 3d 13h
Merged PRs (30d): 28

Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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358 open issues indexed

ClassFactory cannot supply requested class .NET MAUI Open

area-WinAppSDKDeployment needs-triage

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#6058 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 4, 2025
Perf opportunity, call RoGetActivationFactory much less often in xaml Open

area-UndockedRegFreeWinRT needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#6043 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 27, 2025
Clicking a notification from Shell_NotifyIcon opens a second instance of a packaged app Open

area-Shell UX needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#6031 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 24, 2025
Refactor string and output methods out of WizardImplementation.cs Open

area-WinAppSDK:Templates Status: Reviewed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#6017 · Opened Nov 19, 2025
desktop3:CloudFiles is missing properties Open

area-External needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#6014 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 18, 2025
```PackageCatalog.PackageUpdating``` event cause app exit abnormally Open

area-External needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#6002 · Opened Nov 16, 2025
[WinUI3] No way to handle access keys in island app Open

area-WinUI needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5999 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 14, 2025
[2.0.250930001-experimental1] Phi Silica GetReadyState and EnsureReadyAsync return NotReady when model is available Open

area-WCR needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5982 · Opened Nov 5, 2025
Fix flakiness on Push Notification tests Open

area-Notifications needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5981 · Opened Nov 5, 2025
Inconsistent NuGet icons for metapackages on NuGet Open

area-Metapackage

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5968 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Using the WindowsAppSdk for packaging in a single project wpf app with Blazor Hybrid doesn't compile Open

area-WebView needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5956 · Opened Oct 30, 2025
VCLibs dependency incorrectly injected for Hybrid CRT self-contained apps via Microsoft.DesktopBridge.targets Open

area-Packaging needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5952 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 29, 2025
Wrong app sdk version number reported if another application directory with an older app sdk is added to PATH Open

area-VersionInfo bug needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5944 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 25, 2025
Add WinAppSDK samples for OAuth2Manager APIs Open

area-Security samples

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5942 · Opened Oct 23, 2025
Bring AppInstaller APIs to WinAppSDK (esp. to bring them to Win10) Open

area-PackageManagement feature proposal

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5931 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 21, 2025
Proposal:WinUI 3 Template missing ContentDialog template Open

area-WinAppSDK:Templates feature proposal Status: In PR

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5941 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 18, 2025
WCR: LAF com.microsoft.windows.ai.languagemodel is missing from Windows Open

area-WCR needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5892 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 5, 2025
Open source contributions are almost impossible Open

area-Infrastructure feature proposal

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5884 · 2 comments · 9 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 1, 2025
Fix flakiness in App Notification tests Open

area-Notifications needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5881 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 30, 2025
After waking up from sleep mode, there is no response when clicking toast for the first time Open

area-Notifications needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5876 · Opened Sep 30, 2025
Fetching Execution provider with WindowsML ends up with "The product is not applicable or cannot be found." Open

area-WinML

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5862 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 24, 2025
Upgrading to v1.8 breaks ResourceLoader in unpackaged apps Open

area-Packaging needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5832 · 10 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 13, 2025
Upgrading from WindowsAppSDK 1.7 to 1.8 causes APPX1101 build errors Open

area-dotnet area-Projections needs-triage

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5826 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 12, 2025
App broken by DeploymentManagerAutoInitializer.cs throw COMException Open

area-WinAppSDKDeployment needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5815 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 10, 2025
using AppSdk's 1.8 packages (Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK.*) fail to build when a dependency references AppSdk main package Open

area-Metapackage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5811 · 8 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Sep 9, 2025
Add API support tables for each packaging and configuration combination Open

area-Packaging documentation needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5768 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 28, 2025
Desktop Bridge VCLib package links deprecated with no clear way forward Open

area-External needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5762 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 27, 2025
App update to 1.8-preview1 with errors Open

area-MSIXBuildTools needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5746 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2025
Installation of apps should be blocked when required OS servicing updates are missing Open

area-External

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5730 · 41 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 21, 2025
Failed to Create the Print Dialog via PrintManagerInterop Open

area-Windowing needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5725 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2025
AppInstance.FindOrRegisterForKey throws ArgumentException: The parameter is incorrect Open

area-Lifecycle needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5694 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2025
Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK[1.7.250513003]Unable to use TextRecognizer, reporting 'catastrophic failure'(灾难性故障) Open

area-WCR needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5684 · 23 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2025
OAuth2Manager.RequestAuthWithParamsAsync ignoring request for no code challenge Open

area-Security needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5657 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2025
App update should not recreate desktop shortcut Open

area-Activation area-External area-PackageManagement area-Shell UX

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5637 · 5 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 20, 2025
WCR: REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG when attempting to GetReadyState in x86 app Open

area-WCR documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5613 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2025
WCR: New privacy settings UI is unclear, has potential localization issues Open

area-WCR documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5606 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 9, 2025
WCR: Generic COMException "[...] Not declared by app" if missing new, undocumented capability Open

area-WCR Status: Investigating

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5594 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 3, 2025
Single-project packaging should support multiple executables Open

area-MSIXBuildTools needs-triage

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5586 · 6 comments · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 2, 2025
Widgets: Images flickers when updating widget Open

area-External area-Widgets

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5574 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 29, 2025
Add Windows Server to the GitHub Bug-report Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5554 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 23, 2025
keep respone with ##### with Phi Silica api Open

area-WCR

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5551 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 23, 2025
Feature Request: API to set dark mode for Win32 controls Open

feature proposal

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5543 · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 19, 2025
Feature Request: API to detect dark mode Open

feature proposal

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5542 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 19, 2025
WebView2: Cannot suppress (Camera) permission prompt Open

area-WebView needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5539 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2025
1.8-experimental 3: Publishing an msix package influences future builds Open

area-MSIXBuildTools needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5537 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2025
Bug title:When will the API not yet implemented by PackageDeploymentManager be supported? Open

area-PackageManagement

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5533 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 17, 2025
`ToastNotificationManager` APIs crash on Window-minimize Open

area-Notifications needs-triage

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5525 · Opened Jun 16, 2025
Feature Request: Implement missing AppNotificationBuilder APIs Open

area-Notifications feature proposal needs-triage UWP Gap

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

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5520 · Opened Jun 13, 2025
Regarding the issue of using context correlation in Windows AI Foundry ->Phi Silica Open

area-WCR

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5518 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 13, 2025
[BUG] Phi Silica's input of double byte content may result in garbled characters during inference Open

area-WCR

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#5517 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 13, 2025

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