Proposal: Unseal all the things

Author: ryandemopoulosCreated May 30, 2019Updated Sep 20, 2026
Labelsfeature proposalworking on itneeds-winui-3team-Controlswct

Summary

UnsealAllTheThings

Rationale

  • Enable developers to subclass a wider range of our classes/controls (longstanding request from our community)

Scope

Capability Priority
Unseal all, or at least nearly all classes in the framework Must

Important Notes

  • To WinUI community: Internally our MSFT XAML team has been planning to do this. I'm opening this issue to encourage additional conversation / interaction / questions about this work.
  • This work will require WinUI 3, so I've added the needs-winui-3 label to the issue.

Source: microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml