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# Microsoft just released UWP Community Toolkit - Collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services
- URL: https://developerinsider.co/microsoft-just-released-uwp-community-toolkit-collection-of-helper-functions-custom-controls-and-app-services/
- Published: 2016-08-31T03:31:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-12-08T13:44:21.000Z
- Author: Vineet Choudhary
- Tags: Windows, News

Recently, Microsoft introducing the open-source [UWP Community Toolkit](https://github.com/Microsoft/UWPCommunityToolkit?ref=developerinsider.co), a new project that enables the developer community to collaborate and contribute new capabilities on top of the SDK. The UWP Community Toolkit is a collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building UWP apps for Windows 10.

#### UWP Community Toolkit Sample App

If you want to see the toolkit in action before jumping into the code, Microsoft also released [UWP Toolkit Sample App](https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh4tlcq?ref=developerinsider.co).  
![](https://github.com/developerinsider/developer-insider-content/blob/master/POST/Wiki/UWP-Controls/UWP-Controls.png?raw=true)

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#### Features

**Animations**

- Blur
- Offset
- Fade
- Rotate
- Scale

**Controls**

- AdaptiveGridView
- HamburgerMenu
- HeaderedTextBlock
- ImageEx
- PullToRefreshListView
- RadialGauge
- RangeSelector
- RotatorTile
- SlideableListItem

**Code Helpers**

- Colors
- Connection
- Converters
- ImageCache
- StorageFiles
- Streams
- VisualTreeExtensions
- WeakEventListener

**Services**

- Bing
- Facebook
- Twitter

**Notifications**

- Tiles
- Toasts

![](https://github.com/developerinsider/developer-insider-content/blob/master/POST/Wiki/UWP-Controls/UWP-community-toolkit-overview.png?raw=true)

#### Microsoft Roadmap

In the future, Microsoft plan to release stable updates through the Visual Studio NuGet package at a regular cadence.

The toolkit is completely open-sourced on GitHub, including the source code of the toolkit, source code of the sample app and even the documentation. The roadmap for the next release is available [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/UWPCommunityToolkit/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3Av1.1&ref=developerinsider.co).