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Contributed to
microsoft/react-native-windows,
microsoft/react-native-windows-samples,
asklar/react-native-xaml
and 5 other
repositories
Contribution activity
March 2021
Created 165 commits in 15 repositories
Created 5 repositories
- asklar/vscode-extension-samples TypeScript
- asklar/subsubRepro C++
- asklar/Xaml-Islands-Samples C++
- asklar/CLRImplRepro C#
- asklar/react-native JavaScript
Created a pull request in microsoft/react-native-windows that received 8 comments
Update to newer cppwinrt, 2-3% reduction in binary size
Closes #6841 There are some regressions in cppwinrt package that means we want to hold off and wait until they are fixed in a new nuget before we g…
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Opened 79 other pull requests in 14 repositories
microsoft/react-native-windows
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- [0.64] getOwnPropertyDescriptor missing implementation
- Implement JSI getOwnPropertyDescriptor
- 0.65 docs, generate docs in CI
- Enable modules to consume NuGet package
- [0.63] Autolinking doesn't add a project marked as a non-direct dependency
- [0.64] Autolinking doesn't add a project marked as a non-direct dependency
- Fix deployment of x64 apps when they've also been already built for x86
- Autolinking doesn't add a project marked as a non-direct dependency
- Add JSValue visualizer
- Fix issues when compiling with C++20
- [0.64] Fix CI due to breaking change in create-react-native-module
- Add retries to Folly download
- Update option name due to breaking change in create-react-native-module
- Enable apps to override WinUI and SDK version for RNW framework projects
- [0.64] Fix build for codegen test on new agents
- Fix build for codegen test on new agents
- [0.64] Update cppwinrt version (adds support for long paths, size reduction)
- [0.64] port doc formatting fix
- More doc formatting
- Enable view managers to be notified about JS event handler attach/detach
- Fix merge
- Doc improvements
- [0.64] Clarify some API docs
- [0.64] Backport IJSValueReader/IJSValueWriter docs to 0.64
- Code analysis
- Some pull requests not shown.
asklar/react-native-xaml
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- Ensure type short names are unique, prefer MUX over WUX
- Update RNW to 0.64.1
- NavigationView and add support for activating types with a custom activation factory
- Implement Text elements
- Update to 0.64
- Update RNW to 0.64.0-preview.15
- Lightweight styling
- Switch to DispatchEvent in XamlUIService instead of IReactContext
- Move to RNW 0.64.0-preview.14
- Update cppwinrt to reduce dll size by 300 kB!
- Lazy event attachment and detach
- [Perf] Reduce binary size from ~1.5 MB to 875 kB
- Some cleanup, move serialization code out of xamlmetadata
- Use ints for XAML Enums
- [Do not check in] UserControl example
- Codegen FlyoutBase, marshal MenuFlyoutItem
- Cleanup, bump version
- Use IViewManagerCreateWithProperties
- Flyouts and context menus
- CodeGen for custom winmd files UserControls
microsoft/react-native-windows-samples
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merged
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microsoft/cppwinrt
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merged
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closed
microsoft/react-native-gallery
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merged
facebook/react-native
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open
1
closed
asklar/XamlTreeDump
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merged
facebook/folly
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closed
MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api
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merged
asklar/winmd2md
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merged
microsoft/Xaml-Islands-Samples
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merged
MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp
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merged
MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs
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open
MikeHillberg/middleweight-reflection
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Reviewed 66 pull requests in 8 repositories
microsoft/react-native-windows 45 pull requests
- 0.65 docs, generate docs in CI
- [0.64] Bump peer dependency to require non-rc version of react-native
- [0.63] Fix AppStateModule::GetCurrentAppState from returning undefined
- Enable symbol upload on Publish
- [0.64] Fix app template to use app.json's name for main component name (#7464)
- Suppress onLayout event when layout has not changed
- Fix app template to use app.json's name for main component name
- Autolinking doesn't add a project marked as a non-direct dependency
- Workaround to make nuget restore more robust.
- [0.63] Debugging: Adding variables to watch window crashes the process hosting the addin VSO 4853697
- Add JSValue visualizer
- Remove Root Level Perspective Transform
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Fix XAML Visibility for
display:none - [0.63] Backport codegen test fix for build on new agents
- Make BaseWebSocketResource destructor noexcept
- Updates to documentation in IDL files
- Get constants for view manager throws
- [Experiment] Re-enable AppVerifier
- Minor docs update for ReactDispatcherHelper
- Enable RNW_FASTBUILD for PR validation
- [0.64] Improve Microsoft.ReactNative compilation speed (#7148)
- [0.64] Fix deep linking activation (#7011)
- [0.64] Fix DevMenuControl.xbf copy conflict (#7153)
- [0.64] Upgrade to node-notifier@8.0.2
- Bump xmldom from 0.3.0 to 0.5.0
- Some pull request reviews not shown.
microsoft/react-native-windows-samples 15 pull requests
- Regenerate docs in master
- Upgrade Calculator sample to 0.64
- Blog update 0.64
- Upgrade NativeModuleSample to 0.64
- Update CameraDemo to 0.64
- Switch website to default to 0.64
- Versioned 0.64 docs
- Update description of "--overwrite" flag
- Update fix-unbroken.js to load existing file, add PR to check file is up to date
- Add 0.63 WinRT API docs
- Document new IViewManagerCreateWithProperties and IViewManagerRequiresNativeLayout
- 0.64 API docs
- Update native module setup docs with version info
- Fix missing VS dep info
- Update Website to Include Wrapped Windows Control Blurb
microsoft/react-native-gallery 1 pull request
facebook/folly 1 pull request
microsoft/cppwinrt 1 pull request
microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml 1 pull request
microsoft/terminal 1 pull request
facebook/react-native 1 pull request
Created an issue in microsoft/react-native-windows that received 20 comments
Image crashes on path with non en-us characters
I have problem to open image if user's home folder contains some charasters that needs to be encoded.
Images are shown from app in folder C:\Users\…
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Opened 86 other issues in 14 repositories
microsoft/react-native-windows
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closed
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- JSI object properties from HostObject become non-enumerable
- C# apps/modules cannot use JSI
- Remove deprecated APIs in 0.65
- [NuGet] creating app with NuGet should not bring down RNW npm package
- Simplify project creation flags
- When building x86 + x64, deploy of x64 wrongly deploys x86
- Improve config schema validation
- Autolinking is broken for react-native-webview
- Port recent IDL doc updates to 0.64
- Compile with C++20
- create-react-native-module introduced breaking changes, breaking RNW CI
- Externalize WinUI and SDK version
- Update doc that references IDesktopWindowXamlSourceNative interface
- Remove PFX files from repo
- [Dead code] remove JSBigAbiString
- Add WriteJSI functionality for marshalling JSValues to JS
- When is it safe to access JsiRuntime (need clear error and better documentation)
- JsiValueRef are not debuggable
- JsiRuntime::CreatePropertyIdFromAscii doesn't accept const char*
- Dependabot for stable release branches
- WinUI 3/Reunion Desktop app template
- Build a min/gallery electron app to compare/baseline against RNW
- Investigate upgrading WinUI 3 template to Reunion 0.5
- Try ASan for RNW
- Rework CLI to create minimal projects with pluggable item templates
- Some issues not shown.
asklar/react-native-xaml
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- Hot reload doesn't update lightweight styling
- Fill out Remove/Replace logic
- Codegen add/remove/replace child logic
- Codegen Text elements
- Codegen TS types for synthetic properties
- Don't register for every event
- Sub-setting types/props/events
- Refactor EventArgs serializing out of xamlmetadata
- Improve build-time support for UserControl
- Allow registering for KeyUp/KeyDown
- Support attached properties
- Shapes sizes don't take effect until hot reload
- Move to RNW 0.64-preview.13
- codegen FlyoutBase types/props/events
- Sort metadata tables by string hash
- Evaluate how to allow using FlyoutBase/MenuFlyout
- Use TS constants for projecting enums instead of strings
microsoft/cppwinrt
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open
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closed
microsoft/TestWinRT
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open
microsoft/react-native-windows-samples
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closed
1
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MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp
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react-native-webview/react-native-webview
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microsoft/vscode-languageserver-node
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closed
microsoft/hermes-windows
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brodybits/create-react-native-module
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microsoft/terminal
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microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml
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facebook/react-native
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closed
MikeHillberg/middleweight-reflection
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open
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