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Publish your Command Palette extension to the Microsoft Store or WinGet. Use when asked to publish, distribute, release, deploy to store, create MSIX packages, submit to WinGet, set up CI/CD for releases, or automate builds with GitHub Actions.
Toolkit for generating PowerToys release notes from GitHub milestone PRs or commit ranges. Use when asked to create release notes, summarize milestone PRs, generate changelog, prepare release documentation, generate PR review summaries locally for release notes, update README for a new release, manage PR milestones, collect PRs between commits/tags, or prepare release assets (download installers and compute installer hashes).
Create form-based UI for your Command Palette extension using Adaptive Cards. Use when asked to add forms, user input fields, toggle switches, text inputs, dropdown menus, data entry, surveys, configuration dialogs, or interactive content pages. Supports the Adaptive Cards Designer for visual form building.
Add dock band support to your Command Palette extension for persistent toolbar widgets. Use when asked to add dock support, toolbar buttons, persistent UI widgets, taskbar integration, live-updating status displays, quick-access buttons, or always-visible controls. Supports single buttons, multi-button strips, and live-updating content.
Add a settings page to your Command Palette extension. Use when asked to add settings, preferences, configuration options, toggles, text inputs, dropdowns, or user-customizable behavior. Covers ToggleSetting, TextSetting, ChoiceSetSetting, and persistence.
Add fallback commands to your Command Palette extension for catch-all search behavior. Use when asked to add search functionality, query matching, direct input handling, calculator-style evaluation, URL opening, command execution, or results that appear when no other extension matches. Used by 14 of 20 built-in extensions.
Guide for migrating PowerToys modules from WPF to WinUI 3 (Windows App SDK). Use when asked to migrate WPF code, convert WPF XAML to WinUI, replace System.Windows namespaces with Microsoft.UI.Xaml, update Dispatcher to DispatcherQueue, replace DynamicResource with ThemeResource, migrate imaging APIs from System.Windows.Media.Imaging to Windows.Graphics.Imaging, convert WPF Window to WinUI Window, migrate .resx to .resw resources, migrate custom Observable/RelayCommand to CommunityToolkit.Mvvm source generators, handle WPF-UI (Lepo) to WinUI native control migration, or fix installer/build pipeline issues after migration. Keywords: WPF, WinUI, WinUI3, migration, porting, convert, namespace, XAML, Dispatcher, DispatcherQueue, imaging, BitmapImage, Window, ContentDialog, ThemeResource, DynamicResource, ResourceLoader, resw, resx, CommunityToolkit, ObservableProperty, WPF-UI, SizeToContent, AppWindow, SoftwareBitmap.
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| description | Publish your Command Palette extension to the Microsoft Store or WinGet. Use when asked to publish, distribute, release, deploy to store, create MSIX packages, submit to WinGet, set up CI/CD for releases, or automate builds with GitHub Actions. |
Guide for distributing your Command Palette extension through the Microsoft Store, WinGet, or both.
winget install discovery| Channel | Package Format | Discovery | Auto-Updates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Store | MSIX bundle | Store app, ms-windows-store:// link | Yes |
| WinGet | EXE installer | winget install, CmdPal browse | Yes (via manifest) |
Recommendation: Publish to both for maximum reach. WinGet enables direct discovery from within Command Palette.
See store-publishing.md for the complete step-by-step guide.
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Package.appxmanifest and .csproj with Partner Center identitySee winget-publishing.md for the complete step-by-step guide.
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wingetcreate newwinget install Microsoft.WingetCreate[Guid("...")] in your main .cs file) must be unique and consistent across all fileswindows-commandpalette-extension tag for CmdPal discovery