UWP Community Toolkit VS MailKit

GitHub/WCT/Controls/DataGrid (source code for the control)

Started programming by writing some apps for Windows Phone later UWP during university. A few years ago I started collaborating a lot on GitHub to some Microsoft projects, like the Windows Community Toolkit. There I created a lot of new APIs and libraries, like all the new animation APIs and pipeline brush APIs, etc. I then also proposed adding some general .NET APIs to it, and that's how the MVVM Toolkit was born, along with other libraries which are now moved to the .NET Community Toolkit. Fast forward until about late 2020, and they pinged me saying the new Microsoft Store (which hadn't been announced yet back then) was using several of those new APIs I had written, so we started collaborating more so that I could add more functionality they needed. After that shipped, at some point there was a new opening to which I applied, and here I am in the Microsoft Store team and also leading the .NET Community Toolkit 🙂

https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit (now multiplateform)

For instance, recently Chaochao opened a PR for the Windows Community Toolkit to open source the whole custom animation helpers he developed for the Store, which are used to implement the morphing animations you see when scrolling in a product page. You can see a GIF and the whole code here and in the linked PR.

Specifically I am looking for AsyncRelayCommand.cs. All documentation points to CommunityToolkit repo but I can not find it there. Link to source repo from the Nuget package also points to CommunityToolkit. I am not looking for samples.

The report itself is just markdown that is rendered with the Community Toolkit's MarkdownTextBlock.

That's interesting. It will need some documentation and to finish the renaming at some point, e.g. Span2D is in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit but as you say doesn't require Windows.

Windows Community Toolkit

Third, Send-MailMessage has been deprecated. Try MailKit instead. To be honest, though, I'm yet to find time and test it myself.

Microsoft doesn't recommend SmtpClient for new development. We've been using MailKit for years.

Looks like Mailkit is the way to go for open source solutions.

Microsoft recommends MailKit in the SmtpClient docs

Jeffrey Stedfast is on reddit and is an ancap and works for Microsoft as a Senior Engineer. His Mimekit/Mailkit library for C# is recommended in the official Microsoft documentation for sending email instead of the one included by default.

TIL. Looks like the deprecation note recommends MailKit.

You could even do this with your own GMail Client. Design yourself some sweet UI, and use a simple library like: MailKit and wrap your own service around that, to get your emails. And maybe implement some features like writing yourself reminders for important mails, a few dashboards where you can drag around mails Kanban style.

recommends you use MailKit as alternate