Several strings used in AdminSoftwarePage.xaml (external IDs, similar
software, markdown description fields, release management button)
existed in the .resx resources but had no corresponding property on
LocalizedStrings, so the bindings resolved to nothing at runtime.
Platform/genre/company suggestion lists in AdminWwpcImportReviewViewModel
sorted alphabetically after substring filtering, which could push an
exact match (e.g. "Windows") off the visible list when many other
entries shared the same prefix. Now exact matches rank first, followed
by Jaro-Winkler similarity, then alphabetical order.
Duplicate groups now render as explicit cards instead of relying on
ListView/GroupStyle grouping, which Uno doesn't render reliably across
targets. The merge-target picker no longer loads the entire 170k-row
Software table into memory; it now reuses the existing
SoftwareService.SearchForPickerAsync search endpoint, same as the
sibling similar-software picker. The merge panel also now shows a
"Merging X into Y" summary and locks the target (with a Change link)
when pre-selected from a chosen master, matching the Blazor page's UX.
Staging a photo in the Uno admin photo pages (GPU/Machine/Processor/
SoundSynth/Software covers/screenshots) threw ArgumentOutOfRangeException
inside Microsoft.Kiota.Serialization.Json when deserializing the
admin/pending response. Blazor's equivalent dialog never hit this because
it bypasses Kiota entirely for the upload call (raw JS fetch). Replaced
the Kiota-generated PostAsync calls with a manual HttpClient POST +
System.Text.Json deserialization for these endpoints, and hardened
ImageSourceFactory's DispatcherQueue.TryEnqueue calls to surface a real
exception instead of hanging silently if enqueueing fails.
Also fixed the staged-photo cards appearing permanently stuck on
"uploading..." even after a successful stage: their DataTemplates had no
x:DefaultBindMode, so all x:Bind expressions defaulted to OneTime and
never reflected the item's status/thumbnail/progress changes.
Machine, GPU, Processor, and Sound Synth detail pages now show photos
as a card grid (ItemsRepeater + UniformGridLayout), matching the
Blazor app's style and the grid pattern already used for software
screenshots/promo art. Company logos carousel is unchanged.
ResponsiveView's Visibility was bound to IsLoading, keeping it Collapsed
during the first layout pass. It only picks its narrow/wide template based
on the width it measures the first time it participates in layout, so it
never rendered until a real SizeChanged (device rotation) forced it to
re-evaluate. Reorder it under the loading/error overlays instead of hiding
it, so it always measures correctly from the start, and drop the ineffective
QueueLayoutRefresh workaround.
AndroidManifest.xml was missing the INTERNET permission, which .NET
for Android auto-injects only for Debug builds, causing all network
requests to silently fail in signed Release builds. Also make the
embedded appsettings.json fallback in BuildConfiguration always seed
first on Android instead of gating on an unreliable File.Exists check
against APK-packaged content assets.
StackPanel gives its children infinite height during measurement, so the
inner ScrollViewer/TextBox never received a finite height to scroll
against and the boxes just grew unbounded instead of scrolling. Replace
the StackPanel wrappers with Grid (Auto/*) rows across all admin
description editors, and add a matching edit+preview pane to
AdminSoftwarePage, which previously had no preview and no scrolling.
Screenshots were managed from a standalone admin page listing every
screenshot across all software, with an in-page picker just to choose
upload scope. Convert it to the same child-of-Software pattern used by
Versions/Releases/PromoArt/Videos: reached via a row icon on the
Software admin grid, scoped to that software via navigation params,
with a back button returning to the Software list. Drops the now
redundant Software picker and the standalone sidebar entry.
MarkdownTextBlock crashed with a NullReferenceException in ThemeListener
under Uno, and the WebView2-based fallback used by description pages
doesn't composite on Linux desktop. Render markdown directly to XAML
elements (TextBlock/Span/Hyperlink/Image trees) via Markdig's AST instead,
shared by MessageMarkdownView and all entity description pages, with no
embedded browser dependency on any platform.
The Messages page already had an IsAdmin flag and the server already
supported a "reports" folder of system-authored conversations, but
there was no button/command in the Uno app to ever navigate to it, so
admins had no way to see system messages in the Messages area.
Add the junction sections that were missing from the Uno app's
read-only company viewer (smartphones, tablets, PDAs, machine
families, GPUs, processors, sound synthesizers, software, books,
documents, magazines), and restructure the page into tabs
(Overview/Hardware/Software & Media/People/Description) following
the app's established detail-page tab pattern.
The 6.7.0-dev.99 prerelease pulled in by global.json regressed the
CommunityToolkit Carousel control on the Uno desktop/Skia target: item
containers rendered but their content never did, breaking the Logo
History and Photos carousels. 6.5.36 is the documented stable version
and restores correct rendering.
LoginPage and SettingsPage's amber warning boxes now use
WarningFillColorTertiaryBrush/WarningBorderColorDefaultBrush/
WarningForegroundColorDefaultBrush; DeleteAccountPage and
DeletionPendingPage's red danger banners use SystemFillColorCriticalBrush;
UserReviewEditorControl's gold star rating uses WarningForegroundColorDefaultBrush.
All previously ignored the 11 color palettes.
Replace the old Button+LetterYearButtonStyle usage with the new KeyButton
control across all letter/year/platform/spec browse grids. Also bump every
UniformGridLayout's MinItemHeight from 44 to 60 — the button's actual
footprint (52px MinHeight + 4px margin per side) was taller than the cell,
so ItemsRepeater was clipping the bottom of every key.
Border+CornerRadius kept producing corner-clipping/chamfering artifacts on
this Uno.Sdk build regardless of technique, so the letter/year browse-grid
keys are now a custom KeyButton control whose default style draws the
beveled keycap with Path geometry inside a Viewbox (so the five facet
shapes scale together as one rigid design instead of each independently
warping to fill the tile). Bevel walls use translucent black/white overlays
rather than theme-tier brushes, which read as near-identical flat tones in
several palettes.
The letter/year browse-grid buttons on Computers/Software/Books/etc pages
used a copy-pasted ControlTemplate with literal hex gradients that ignored
all 11 color palettes. Add LetterYearButtonStyle to SharedStyles.xaml using
the existing CardBackgroundFillColor*/CardStrokeColorDefault theme brushes
and point every page at it instead.
Replace the hand-rolled Button.Template+VisualStateManager clickable-card
pattern duplicated across all machine/media/hardware listing pages with the
shared InteractiveCardButtonTemplate. Also convert SoftwareListPage's
hardcoded compilation badge to the semantic ChipInfoStyle.
