microsoft/WindowsAppSDK v2.0-preview1

2.0 Preview 1 (2.0.0-Preview1) 🔃

Repository: microsoft/WindowsAppSDK

Tag: v2.0-preview1

Published: 2026-02-13T20:16:29Z

Prerelease: yes

Release notes:

2.0 Preview 1 (2.0-preview1) 🔃

The first preview of WinAppSDK 2.0 is now available! Check out the release notes for more information on the new & updated features and known issues.

Updates to this version:

• Updated ONNX Runtime version to 1.24 RC.

• New InputFocusController.ShouldShowKeyboardCues property to guide developers on whether to show keyboard cues right after the creation of a ContentIsland.
• New convenience API PointerPoint.GetCurrentPoint, to allow developers to get the active PointerPoint data from the provided pointerId.
• Improved DeleteIndex reliability. Sometimes DeleteIndex would fail with ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION.
• App Content Search are part of a separate Microsoft.Windows.Search package instead of being part of Microsoft.Windows.AI package.
• New AppContentIndexer APIs and renamed AppContentIndexer APIs.

Bugs fixed in the new WinAppSDK Release:

• Fix for prefix search not working with short query strings.
• Fix for OCR Bounding boxes returning negative values in some edge cases.
• Fixed bug where if RegisterCertifiedAsync is called again in the same process, it incorrectly returns 0 execution providers (EP).
• Fixed an issue where the WindowsAppSDK installer showed no progress during installation, making it appear stalled. The installer now provides clearer progress feedback.
• Improved error handling of scenarios where WindowsAppSDKSelfContained is enabled for class libraries.

Providing feedback

As we introduce new & upcoming features in our preview releases, we appreciate all of your feedback as we work towards a stable release:

• For WinUI 3 feedback, please open an issue on the WinUI repo.
• For feedback regarding all other Windows App SDK components, please open an issue here, on the Windows App SDK repo.