Planning stable 8.2 store release for native WCT Sample Gallery

[Arlodotexe]

Background

Windows Community Toolkit 8.2 is slated to release soon, with 8.2-preview2 already in flight.

Problem

To facilitate a smooth release, we need to ensure that the gallery app published to https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nblggh4tlcq is updated with the lates source, samples and docs from 8.2.

Solution

• Build the UWP gallery app in release mode.
• Run through the app in Release mode, evaluate for possible regressions
• File tickets for any regressions found
• Publish to the Microsoft Store

UWP or Wasdk?

With how much code is in the toolkit, .NET Native takes significant time and resources just to build release, let alone debugging building release.

We can't publish UWP with .NET 9 to the Microsoft Store due to the NativeAOT requirement, but we could publish Wasdk with NativeAOT disabled.

It was discussed that we may try publishing the Wasdk version of our Gallery app without NativeAOT, if UWP gives us persistent troubles.

Which we end up doing ultimately depends on how much time we're forced to waste wrestling with .NET Native.

[michael-hawker]

Tried updating the analytics PR from before (no updates to the package, following up on that with Sergio to see if he can find out who in Store owns that now). See PR #206.

I'm not sure why it fails to build with a binary conflict though in the CI. I haven't had issues in the past with it building locally, but forgot to add it for 8.1, I think.

[Arlodotexe]

Let's see if we can get this fixed before we ship - #587

[Arlodotexe]

The UWP version of the Windows Community Toolkit Gallery has been published to the Microsoft Store with the latest changes from 8.2: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nblggh4tlcq