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Mike Griese<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@feoh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>feoh</span></a></span> Hey not to necro an old thread, but what languages do you want to be able to write extensions in? Python, any others?</p><p>We just shipped the Command Palette in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/powertoys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>powertoys</span></a> 0.90, as the next evolution of PT Run. It's definitely supposed to be more in the style of alfred/raycast.</p><p>Right now, the extension toolkit is geared towards <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dotnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dotnet</span></a>, but it's all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WinRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinRT</span></a> under the hood, so theoretically we could build an extension in just about anything. 1/</p>
Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️<p>Using Windows-Media WinRT SpeechRecognition in WPF | by Rick Strahl.</p><p><a href="https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/Mar/24/Using-WindowsMedia-SpeechRecognition-in-WPF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">weblog.west-wind.com/posts/202</span><span class="invisible">5/Mar/24/Using-WindowsMedia-SpeechRecognition-in-WPF</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/wpf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wpf</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/winrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>winrt</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windowssdk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windowssdk</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dotnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dotnet</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/csharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>csharp</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windowsdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windowsdev</span></a></p>
Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️<p>Launch Snipping Tool from Windows apps | Microsoft Learn.</p><p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/launch/launch-snipping-tool" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wind</span><span class="invisible">ows/apps/develop/launch/launch-snipping-tool</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows11</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windev</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windowsdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windowsdev</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dotnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dotnet</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/csharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>csharp</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/winrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>winrt</span></a></p>
AliveDevil<p>Anyone here got a fancy wrapper struct for COM instances, that allows for dot-method calls, is IDisposable, and works seamlessly with IUnknown**, void**, T**, out IUnknown*, out void*, out T*, and doesn't depend on weird Marshal RCW-behaviors?<br>Basically C++ smart pointers for COM (like WIL/WinRT com_ptr, com_ref).</p><p><a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/DotNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DotNet</span></a> <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/CSharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSharp</span></a> <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/Win32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Win32</span></a><br> <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/Cpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cpp</span></a> <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/WinRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinRT</span></a></p>
Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️<p>Make Great Music with Windows on Arm by Pete Brown.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windowsdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windowsdev</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/winrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>winrt</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/midi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>midi</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/arm64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arm64</span></a> <br><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/windows-music-dev/making-music-on-windows/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">devblogs.microsoft.com/windows</span><span class="invisible">-music-dev/making-music-on-windows/</span></a></p>
AliveDevil<p>Tired Take:<br><a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/WinMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinMD</span></a>, <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/WinRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinRT</span></a>, <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/CsWinRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CsWinRT</span></a> and <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/CppWinRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CppWinRT</span></a> are a mistake.</p><p><a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/DotNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DotNet</span></a> <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/CSharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSharp</span></a></p>
AliveDevil<p>I fucking hate the <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> Runtime API.</p><p>There is StorageFolder.GetFolderFromPathAsync, which fails with long paths, if long paths are disabled, or with path invalid exception, when prefixed with `\\?\`.</p><p><a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/WindowsAppSdk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsAppSdk</span></a> <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/WinRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinRT</span></a> <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/Win32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Win32</span></a> <a href="https://tauri.earth/tags/LongPaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongPaths</span></a></p>
Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️<p>Create a Windows Hello login app with WinUI.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windowsdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windowsdev</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/winrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>winrt</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/winui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>winui</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dotnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dotnet</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/csharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>csharp</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/xaml" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xaml</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windowshello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windowshello</span></a> <br><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/security/windows-hello-login" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wind</span><span class="invisible">ows/apps/develop/security/windows-hello-login</span></a></p>
Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️<p>You can query the clipboard history yourself with WinRT APIs, including Clipboard.GetHistoryItemsAsync().</p><p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.applicationmodel.datatransfer.clipboard.gethistoryitemsasync" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/</span><span class="invisible">api/windows.applicationmodel.datatransfer.clipboard.gethistoryitemsasync</span></a><br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windowsdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windowsdev</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/winrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>winrt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@techhelpkb/112055902849583197" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@techhelpkb/11</span><span class="invisible">2055902849583197</span></a></p>
Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️<p>Windows MIDI Services documentation by Pete Brown.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windowsdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windowsdev</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/midi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>midi</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/docs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>docs</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/winrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>winrt</span></a> <br><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/MIDI/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">microsoft.github.io/MIDI/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️<p>Windows MIDI Services Developer Preview 2 (via Pete Brown).</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/midi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>midi</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/api" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>api</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cpp</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/winrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>winrt</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/oss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oss</span></a> <br><a href="https://github.com/microsoft/MIDI/releases/tag/dev-preview-2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/microsoft/MIDI/rele</span><span class="invisible">ases/tag/dev-preview-2</span></a></p>
Rocky Lhotka 🤘🖖<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swift</span></a> bindings for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> app development </p><p><a href="https://speakinginswift.substack.com/p/swift-meet-winrt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">speakinginswift.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/swift-meet-winrt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WinRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinRT</span></a></p>
heise online (inoffiziell)Das Projekt befindet sich noch in der Vorschauphase, mit Version 0.8 unterstützt es nun unverpackte Apps (non-MSIX). <a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-Fortschritt-bei-Project-Reunion-zur-Wiedervereinigung-getrennter-APIs-6063746.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Microsoft: Fortschritt bei Project Reunion zur Wiedervereinigung getrennter APIs</a>
heise online (inoffiziell)Die Bemühungen, die APIs WinRT und Win32 wieder zusammenzuführen, gehen mit Veröffentlichen von Project Reunion 0.1 in die offizielle Testphase über.<br> <a href="https://www.heise.de/news/APIs-WinRT-Win32-wiedervereint-Microsoft-Reunion-startet-in-die-Preview-Phase-4990524.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">APIs WinRT/Win32 wiedervereint: Microsoft Reunion startet in die Preview-Phase</a>