A temporary solution for Microsoft WinUI issue #8810

Issue Background

See #8810

Solution 1

This sample solution overview

• Reference:

<ItemGroup>
  <PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.WinUI.Controls.SettingsControls" Version="8.0.240109" />
  <PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI.Controls.DataGrid" Version="7.1.2" />
  <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK" Version="1.5.240311000" />
  <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Windows.SDK.BuildTools" Version="10.0.22621.3233" />
</ItemGroup>

• Using SDK introduced control SelectorBar in MainWindow

<SelectorBar x:Name="SelectorBar1">
    <SelectorBarItem x:Name="SelectorBarItemRecent" Text="Recent" Icon="Clock" />
    <SelectorBarItem x:Name="SelectorBarItemShared" Text="Shared" Icon="Share" />
    <SelectorBarItem x:Name="SelectorBarItemFavorites" Text="Favorites" Icon="Favorite" />
</SelectorBar>

Steps of solution

• First, add a XamlCodeGenerationControlFlags markup in <PropertyGroup of project file.

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net6.0-windows10.0.19041.0</TargetFramework>
    <TargetPlatformMinVersion>10.0.17763.0</TargetPlatformMinVersion>
    ...

    <!--Temporary solution for issue 8810-->
    <XamlCodeGenerationControlFlags>DoNotGenerateOtherProviders</XamlCodeGenerationControlFlags>
	  
  </PropertyGroup>

• Then, execute Clean solution, and then Build solution
• Thrid, Add below code to App.xaml.cs file

  public App()
  {
      this.InitializeComponent();

      // Temporary solution for issue 8810
      this.AddOtherProvider(new Microsoft.UI.Xaml.XamlTypeInfo.XamlControlsXamlMetaDataProvider());
      this.AddOtherProvider(new CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI.Controls.CommunityToolkit_WinUI_UI_Controls_DataGrid_XamlTypeInfo.XamlMetaDataProvider());
      this.AddOtherProvider(new CommunityToolkit.WinUI.Controls.SettingsControlsRns.CommunityToolkit_WinUI_Controls_SettingsControls_XamlTypeInfo.XamlMetaDataProvider());
  }

Solution 2

Upgrade community toolkit packages to Community toolkit preview packages.

Using https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dotnet/CommunityToolkit/_packaging/CommunityToolkit-PullRequests/nuget/v3/index.json for package source.