Microsoft’s .NET Community Toolkit’s latest version, v.8.1.0, recently reached its first preview release. The release brings several new features and improvements to the toolkit, most notably improvements to the MVVM source generator performance and the addition of custom attributes support for the ObservableProperty attribute.
Version 8.1.0 also brings additional IMessenger extensions and .NET 7 and C# 11 support.
The toolkit now allows source generators to use Roslyn 4.3 in supported hosts. This addition enables the generators to use more optimised APIs introduced in the new version of Roslyn. Another newer Roslyn feature that improves performance is the usage of the ForAttributeWithMetadataName<T> attributes.
