An application development platform
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(+) #1489 Add VisualizerResult for IUIVisualizerService with instance of view model / window (+) #1528 Add static setting to specify the default value for SupportIEditableObject and SupportValidation for Model attributes (+) #1537 Add ToCast<T> extension methods to cast value types to a generic without boxing (+) #1538 Clean up BoxingCache every 5 minutes () #691 Rename IPleaseWaitService to IBusyIndicatorService () #940 Investigate memory usage and try to minimize allocations () #1145 Change navigation methods in INavigationService to async () #1191 Change ProcessCompletedCallback to include the initial context and exit code () #1246 Use Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Wpf as dependency for WPF projects () #1491 Use TypedPropertyBag instead of PropertyBag by default in ModelBase () #1493 Replace PropertyData by IPropertyData interface to allow generic implementations for improved memory management () #1494 Improve non-generic ModelBase.RegisterProperty methods () #1507 Move Catel.MVVM collections to Catel.Core collections () #1536 Create T4 template to generate logging extensions with optimized memory usage (*) #2101 Change Execute and CanExecute methods for CommandContainerBase to public (x) #2070 StringToObjectHelper.ToRightType returns wrong values for type byte (x) #2078 Duplicate subscription to close callback in UIVisualizerService (-) #1035 Remove services that are used less-frequently (AccelerometerService, CameraService, LocationService, SchedulerService, VibrateService, ViewExportService) (-) #1101 Remove Catel.Reflection.TypeInfo (-) #1209 Remove IStartupInfoProvider in favor of Orc.CommandLine (-) #1216 Remove binary serialization (due to potential security issues) (-) #1239 Move DragAdorner behavior to Orchestra instead of Catel (-) #1409 Remove ApiCop feature, we will implement this in Catel.Analyzers instead (-) #1492 Remove ModelBase.SetValue(string, object, bool) (-) #1638 Remove xplat shims (such as TaskShim, Timer, etc) (-) #1653 Remove IoC configuration sections (-) #1654 Remove AdvancedPropertyChangedEventArgs to improve performance and decrease memory allocations (-) #1655 Remove ExceptionTester (-) #1661 Remove ActionTask, TaskBase, ProgressNotifyableViewModel (-) #1662 Remove NavigationViewModelBase (-) #2148 Remove TypeExtensions.IsSerializableEx
(-) #1285 Remove support for all frameworks except .NET 6.0, .NET 7.0, .NET 8.0 (+) #2008 Implement nullable support (and remove all argument null checks)
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