

The Controls package is now a meta-package which contains various sub-packages.Effects that were in the Animations package are now supported by improvements to the .Media package which allow for adding effects directly to elements as well as animation support.We have split the Behaviors reference into a new .Behaviors package which includes various new Behaviors and new hooks into Animations.

The Animation package is now lighter weight to support just C# and XAML animations directly.Highlights of the most impactful changes are below, but see our release notes for full details. The refactoring we have done has affected the Animations and Controls packages the most. If you are new to the Toolkit or creating a new application, you can skip this section and jump to our new features below! This has allowed us to reduce the application size footprint impact of the Toolkit in common scenarios by 80-90%. This was to help reduce pulling in extra dependencies for the whole package when only a small number of components required them. We have refactored many packages within the Toolkit. New Package Structure & Breaking Changes 🚨 See more details of these changes and new features below.

There should be something for everyone in this release as it includes a wide variety of features we hope you will enjoy them for building. This is one of the largest releases of the Toolkit ever as we embarked to optimize and streamline the Toolkit for the future. However, it also contains many breaking changes to pay attention to both around its underlying structure and code contracts. Please be sure to read our release notes here, some high-level overviews are provided below. NET and UWP, a completely revamped composition Animation system for C# & XAML, new controls, and more! !!
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This new update includes a whole new .NET Standard MVVM library, easier to use Toast Notification helpers for both.
