--- title: Best WinUI posts of 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted WinUI posts of 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/winui/best-of/2025 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/winui/best-of/2025 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best WinUI posts of 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted WinUI posts of 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of WinUI — 2025 1. 1 [](/posts/announcing-winui-gallery-2-7-iyqprxbhf "Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.7") Article DevBlogs · 1y Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.7 WinUI Gallery 2.7 introduces sample history and favorites functionality, new samples for TitleBar and ThemeShadow controls, upgraded StoragePicker APIs with Windows App SDK 1.8, fresh typography and button styles, and over 100 community-driven improvements including accessibility fixes and UI polish. 71 2. 2 [](/posts/microsoft-promises-to-make-winui-truly-open-source--nvbxxaokf "Microsoft promises to make WinUI 'truly open source'") Article The Register · 1y Microsoft promises to make WinUI 'truly open source' Microsoft announced plans to make WinUI, their modern Windows UI framework, fully open source after years of developer frustration over slow progress and bugs. The transition will happen in four phases, starting with more frequent code mirroring to GitHub and eventually making it the primary repository. However, the timeline remains unclear due to dependencies on proprietary Windows components. Developers remain skeptical about Microsoft's commitment, citing years of stagnation and questioning whether sufficient resources will be allocated to improve the framework. 66 2 3. 3 [](/posts/announcing-windows-community-toolkit-v8-2-a70toiezn "Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v8.2") Article DevBlogs · 2y Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v8.2 Version 8.2 of the Windows Community Toolkit has been released, bringing updates such as Native AOT support, UWP support for .NET 9, and SwitchConverter improvements. The update also includes enhancements like AcrylicBrush for WinUI 3 and various bug fixes. Windows Community Toolkit Labs has introduced new experiments, including DependencyPropertyGenerator and OpacityMaskView, to further aid developers. Community contributions continue to play a significant role in these developments. 37 [See all WinUI archives](/tags/winui/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/winui/best-of/2025#page","url":"https://daily.dev/tags/winui/best-of/2025","name":"Best WinUI Posts of 2025","description":"The most upvoted WinUI posts of 2025, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/winui/best-of/2025#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-winui-gallery-2-7-iyqprxbhf","name":"Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.7"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-promises-to-make-winui-truly-open-source--nvbxxaokf","name":"Microsoft promises to make WinUI 'truly open source'"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-windows-community-toolkit-v8-2-a70toiezn","name":"Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v8.2"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tags","item":"https://daily.dev/tags"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"WinUI","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/winui"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/winui/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"2025"}]}]} ```