Update to Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.6, enable AoT.

[Arlodotexe]

Tracking issue for updating toolkit tooling to WindowsAppSDK 1.6 and enabling AoT support.

Preview1:

• Tooling: Update to WinAppSdk 1.6, enable AoT on gallery head #195
• Windows Community Toolkit Updated to WinAppSdk 1.6, fixed AoT annotations Windows#457
• Windows Community Toolkit Labs Updated to WinAppSdk 1.6, fixed AoT annotations Labs-Windows#561

Preview2:

• Tooling: Update Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK to 1.6-preview2 #208
• Windows Community Toolkit Update Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK to 1.6-preview2 Windows#492
• Windows Community Toolkit Labs Update Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK to 1.6-preview2 Labs-Windows#568

Stable:

• Tooling: Update Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK to 1.6 stable #209
• Windows Community Toolkit Update Microsoft.WindowsAppSdk to 1.6 stable Windows#503
• Windows Community Toolkit Labs Update Microsoft.WindowsAppSdk to 1.6 stable Labs-Windows#570

CsWinRTAotWarningLevel 2:

• Tooling: Enabled CsWinRTAotWarningLevel 2 #212
• Windows Community Toolkit Fix analyzer warnings for CsWinRTAotWarningLevel 2 Windows#507
• Windows Community Toolkit Labs Fix analyzer warnings for CsWinRTAotWarningLevel 2 Labs-Windows#572

General Gallery / Component issues:

• GeneratedSampleOptionRenderer dependency property fails to bind under AoT, crashes sample gallery #213
• ColorPicker sample in gallery crashing under Windows App SDK Windows#509
• TextBoxExtensions sample in gallery crashes under Windows App SDK  Windows#510
• AttachedCardShadow sample in gallery crashes under NativeAoT Windows#511
• Shadows overview sample in gallery crashes under Windows App SDK Windows#512
• AdvancedCollectionView items are empty in gallery sample under Windows App SDK Windows#513
• IncrementalLoadingCollection gallery sample items missing content under Windows App SDK Windows#514
• WrapLayout gallery sample never loads, is unusably slow under Windows App SDK Windows#515
• SwitchPresenter sample in gallery crashes under Windows App SDK Windows#516
• StaggeredPanel, WrapPanel samples in gallery crash under Windows App SDK Windows#517
• Gallery app home template text not binding under Windows App Sdk Windows#519
• NuGet validation fails with 1.6 references due to unexpected included webview2loader.dll #215

[michael-hawker]

Thanks @Arlodotexe, I've unblocked you on the Preview2 PRs. As discussed, we'll just snap those in as a check-point and then update to the stable 1.6 bits.

[michael-hawker]

Got a report from building with 1.6-stable against our latest 1.6-preview2 bits with this error:

1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(5321,5): error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\Users....nuget\packages\communitytoolkit.winui.animations\8.2.240909-build.1181\lib\net8.0-windows10.0.22621\CommunityToolkit.WinUI.Animations\runtimes\win-x64\native\WebView2Loader.dll" because it was not found.

looks like a path problem:

Wrong
C:\Users....nuget\packages\communitytoolkit.winui.animations\8.2.240909-build.1181\lib\net8.0-windows10.0.22621\CommunityToolkit.WinUI.Animations\runtimes\win-x64\native\

Correct
C:\Users....nuget\packages\communitytoolkit.winui.animations\8.2.240909-build.1181\lib\net8.0-windows10.0.22621.0\CommunityToolkit.WinUI.Animations\runtimes\win-x64\native
Note the missing .0 in the TFM part of the path, should be net8.0-windows10.0.22621.0 but was net8.0-windows10.0.22621.

Talking with @Arlodotexe it sounds similar (though different) to the issue Morten had reported in Labs here: CommunityToolkit/Labs-Windows#569

Though with all the WebView changes between preview1 and stable, we may just want to have them reproduce once we have a 1.6 build to try.

[michael-hawker]

Screenshot of nuget package:

the issue is on the packaged from ctk which has 2 folders for the .net8-windowsSdk version
same for other .net versions
the only diff is that 1 has the bits for CTK and the other has the WebView2 dll

[michael-hawker]

They tried the 1.6 bits from the latest PR, same issue, if they merge the folders and move the bits in the wrong place to the right place, it works.

[BlameTwo]

May I ask how the progress is now?