Proposal: Unseal all the things
Author: ryandemopoulosCreated May 30, 2019Updated Sep 20, 2026
Labelsfeature proposalworking on itneeds-winui-3team-Controlswct
Summary

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