From 4667173ffb8816403b4bb97606fb9cf2402e0bc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Michael Hawker MSFT (XAML Llama)" <24302614+michael-hawker@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:09:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Make sample app link more prominent in readme and update component list --- ReadMe.md | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ReadMe.md b/ReadMe.md index 2c0ab01a7..d59d4efd1 100644 --- a/ReadMe.md +++ b/ReadMe.md @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ # ๐Ÿงช Windows Community Toolkit Labs (Preview) ๐Ÿงช -![Windows Community Toolkit Labs header](CommunityToolkitLabs-Header.png) +**[Try our components live in your browser in our Sample App here!](https://toolkitlabs.dev)** + +[![Windows Community Toolkit Labs header](CommunityToolkitLabs-Header.png)](https://toolkitlabs.dev) Welcome to the home of Windows Community Toolkit Labs. A place for all new components to be developed in 'experiments' for the [Windows Community Toolkit](https://aka.ms/windowstoolkitdocs) (built on top of WinUI 2, [WinUI 3](https://aka.ms/winui3), and [Uno Platform](https://platform.uno))! Find out more about Toolkit Labs in our [blog post here](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ifdef-windows/announcing-the-windows-community-toolkit-labs/). It includes more about our motivations for having this space as well as how to setup the NuGet feed required to easily use experiments found in this repo. -This is the starting place for all new features to make it into the [Windows Community Toolkit](https://aka.ms/wct). It is a useful prototyping space as well as a space to work collaboratively on polishing a feature. This allows a final PR into the main Toolkit repo to go as smoothly as possible once a feature is ready to go. +This is the starting place for all new features to make it into the [Windows Community Toolkit](https://aka.ms/wct). It is a useful prototyping space as well as a space to work collaboratively on polishing a feature. This allows a final PR into the main Toolkit repo to go as smoothly as possible once a feature is ready to go. You can try these components live in the browser, thanks to Uno Platform, [here](https://toolkitlabs.dev). ## Getting Started @@ -22,14 +24,18 @@ If you find an experiment useful, please up-vote ๐Ÿ‘ its corresponding issue an Otherwise, you can clone the repo, open the `components` directory, navigate within the folder for a particular experiment and open up it's solution file in Visual Studio. Run one of the project heads (_ExperimentName.Uwp/Wasm/WinAppSDK_) to see its samples. **List of current experiments** +- [Adorners](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/Adorners/samples/Adorners.md) - [AppServices](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/tree/main/components/AppServices) - [CanvasLayout](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/CanvasLayout/samples/CanvasLayout.md) - [CanvasView](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/CanvasView/samples/CanvasView.md) +- [ColorAnalyzer](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/tree/main/components/ColorAnalyzer) - [DataTable](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/DataTable/samples/DataTable.md) +- [DependencyPropertyGenerator](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/tree/main/components/DependencyPropertyGenerator) - [Extensions.DependencyInjection](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/tree/main/components/Extensions.DependencyInjection) - [MarkdownTextBlock](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/MarkdownTextBlock/samples/MarkdownTextBlock.md) - [Marquee](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/Marquee/samples/Marquee.md) - [Notifications](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/tree/main/components/Notifications) +- [OpacityMaskView](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/tree/main/components/OpacityMaskView) - [Ribbon](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/Ribbon/samples/Ribbon.md) - [RivePlayer](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/RivePlayer/samples/RivePlayer.md) - [Shimmer](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/Shimmer/samples/Shimmer.md) From 9b0a893d2f4fbbf16cefdbb283fbb9e68cb09441 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Michael Hawker MSFT (XAML Llama)" <24302614+michael-hawker@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:12:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Apply suggestion from @Arlodotexe Co-authored-by: Arlo --- ReadMe.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ReadMe.md b/ReadMe.md index d59d4efd1..d94b4e1a4 100644 --- a/ReadMe.md +++ b/ReadMe.md @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Otherwise, you can clone the repo, open the `components` directory, navigate wit - [MarkdownTextBlock](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/MarkdownTextBlock/samples/MarkdownTextBlock.md) - [Marquee](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/Marquee/samples/Marquee.md) - [Notifications](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/tree/main/components/Notifications) -- [OpacityMaskView](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/tree/main/components/OpacityMaskView) +- [OpacityMaskView](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/tree/main/components/OpacityMaskView/samples/OpacityMaskView.md) - [Ribbon](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/Ribbon/samples/Ribbon.md) - [RivePlayer](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/RivePlayer/samples/RivePlayer.md) - [Shimmer](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows/blob/main/components/Shimmer/samples/Shimmer.md)