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## Summary of the Pull Request
A memory leak was identified where activating a Command Palette
extension via a hotkey would lead to a linear increase in resource
consumption and a corresponding decrease in search performance.
Each activation created a new `PageViewModel` instance for the
extension's UI. However, the `ShellViewModel` did not dispose of the
previous `PageViewModel` instance when a new one was created.
The fix is implemented in
`Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.ViewModels/ShellViewModel.cs` by ensuring that
`PageViewModel` instances are correctly disposed of when they are no
longer active.
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## Validation Steps Performed
1. Installed [Workspace Launcher for Visual Studio /
Code](https://github.com/tanchekwei/WorkspaceLauncherForVSCode)
2. Configured a global hotkey for the extension (e.g., Alt + Q).
3. Ran the following AHK script. Pressing F1 simulates pressing the
hotkey 10 times with a 200ms interval, followed by typing p to trigger a
search and observe how many times `GetItems` is invoked.
```ahk
#NoEnv
SetBatchLines, -1
; Press F1 to run the sequence
F1::
Loop, 10
{
Send, !q
Sleep, 200
}
Send, p
return
```
### Before the Fix (PowerToys v0.91.1)
- Pressing the hotkey 10 times then search will triggered `GetItems` 12
times.
- See video and log output below:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3c7d59d6-2dda-4ab4-b230-2f2472c45776
```log
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.251] [VisualStudioCodePage.UpdateSearchText] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.251] [VisualStudioCodePage.UpdateSearchText] SearchText: p
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.251] [WorkspaceFilter.Filter] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.263] [WorkspaceFilter.Filter] Finished in 11ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.269] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.269] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.373] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.373] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.408] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.408] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.445] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.446] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.485] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.486] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.524] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.525] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.563] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.564] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.604] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.604] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.645] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.645] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.685] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.686] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.755] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.756] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.798] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.798] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:04:58.843] [VisualStudioCodePage.UpdateSearchText] Finished in 591ms
```
### After the Fix
- Pressing the hotkey 10 times then search will now triggers `GetItems`
only once.
- See updated video and log output:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e38f3eb5-5353-44da-a9d9-ff83647eb6e9
```log
[2025-06-25 00:03:44.862] [VisualStudioCodePage.UpdateSearchText] Started
[2025-06-25 00:03:44.863] [VisualStudioCodePage.UpdateSearchText] SearchText: p
[2025-06-25 00:03:44.864] [WorkspaceFilter.Filter] Started
[2025-06-25 00:03:44.866] [WorkspaceFilter.Filter] Finished in 2ms
[2025-06-25 00:03:44.870] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Started
[2025-06-25 00:03:44.870] [VisualStudioCodePage.GetItems] Finished in 0ms
[2025-06-25 00:03:44.909] [VisualStudioCodePage.UpdateSearchText] Finished in 46ms
```
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## Summary of the Pull Request
ok... it seems didn't work since 0.91.
Maybe we forgot to send message when command has more commands?
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Co-authored-by: Yu Leng <yuleng@microsoft.com>
## Problem
The "Reload" command in the Command Palette was only showing up when
searching with a lowercase 'r' (e.g., "reload") but not with an
uppercase 'R' (e.g., "Reload"). This was inconsistent with the
documentation which references a "Reload" command.
## Solution
Fixed the case-sensitivity issue in `FallbackReloadItem.UpdateQuery()`
by changing the string comparison from case-sensitive to
case-insensitive:
```csharp
// Before
_reloadCommand.Name = query.StartsWith('r') ? "Reload" : string.Empty;
// After
_reloadCommand.Name = query.StartsWith("r", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) ? "Reload" : string.Empty;
```
This change makes the Reload command visible when typing either "reload"
or "Reload" in the Command Palette, improving the user experience for
extension developers.
Fixes#39769.
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## Summary of the Pull Request
### 1. Make AdaptiveCards WinUI3 AOT Compatible
The AdaptiveCards.WinUI3 NuGet packages ship with precompiled WinRT
projections (RendererCsProjection.dll, etc.), which are not
trim/AOT-safe. These projections internally use APIs like
ComWrappersSupport.GetObjectReferenceForInterface, which break under
PublishAot.
To resolve this:
- We exclude their compile assets to avoid using the shipped C#
projections.
- Use the .winmd metadata files with CsWinRT to regenerate our own
AOT-compatible projections.
- Manually copy the required native .dlls from the NuGet package.
### 2. Ensure AOT-Compatible Transitive Dependency
The AdaptiveCards.Templating package depends on
Microsoft.Bot.AdaptiveExpressions.Core, but doesn’t pin an AOT-safe
version. We explicitly version Microsoft.Bot.AdaptiveExpressions.Core to
4.23.0 to ensure compatibility with NativeAOT.
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Remove throw exception and add some logs here.
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Removes extra call to Marshal.GetIUnknownForObject. This method is meant
to take a .NET object that implements a COM interface and return a
pointer to a COM instance that can be passed to native COM code, but the
code was passing a COM instance pointer.
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- [X] **Closes:** No associated issue
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This lets us auto-focus the first input on a `IFormContent`, if there's
only one `IContent` on the page.
This dramatically improves the usability for forms, since we'll
immediately put focus into them
Closes#38436
This was especially noticable with the icons extension.
Turns out in #39051, when I was experimenting with getting AoT clean,
i accidentally called this twice. Then we actually commited that
straight up.
This PR reverts that. It also moves a similar case where we were
initializing all the tags on the UI thread. That's wrong too - we need
to fetch properties off the UI thread, then update the list on the UI
thread.
Closes nothing, I didn't file this yet.
## Summary of the Pull Request
The Command Palette allows users to create extensions with dashes in their names, which is invalid for C# namespaces. This causes projects to fail during build because the name cannot be used as a valid namespace.
## Changes
- Updated the validation regex in `NewExtensionForm.cs` to only allow valid C# identifiers
- Now only allows names starting with a letter or underscore, followed by letters, numbers, or underscores
- Explicitly prevents dashes, spaces, and other special characters
- Improved the error message to clearly explain the requirements for valid C# identifiers
## Before
Previously, the input only validated that no spaces were used:
```csharp
"regex": "^[^\\s]+$"
```
## After
Now the input properly validates for C# namespace compatibility:
```csharp
"regex": "^[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$"
```
This ensures that users cannot create extension projects with names that would fail to build.
## PR Checklist
- [ ] **Closes:** https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/38522
This bumps the version of the toolkit consumed by the template to 0.2.0
~Ironically, I have not yet published 0.2. I'm spinning that CI build currently. But I'll have that uploaded tomorrow morning at the latest~
EDIT: package is uploaded now
Extensions can change the properties on their Details, and they should
be observable, but they weren't. This is because the ShellPage is
ultimately responsible for exposing the details, but it doesn't own the
details. The selected ListItemViewModel from the ListPage does.
This PR just adds a event handler on ListViewModel. We'll attach/detach
that handler to ListItemViewModels as the selection changes. In the body
of that handler, we'll let the ShellPage know when the details object
changes (by sending ShowDetails/HideDetails messages).
Closes#39216
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Card = AdaptiveCard.FromJsonString(cardJson) is called in catch block, if it fails, app will crash.
This PR stops us from synchronously initializing the settings page for every extension (including built-in's) on startup. That incurs a small penalty that really adds up the more extensions a user has.
Instead, we'll now only initialize the `CommandSettings` object when we first actually need it.
From a relatively unscientific test, this saves approximately 10% on the initialization of builtin commands, and for my setup, it trims about 28% off extension initialization (across all built-in's / extensions):
branch | Built-in load (ms) | Extension load (ms) | %Δ builtin | %Δ extensions |
-- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
main | 1455 | 6867.6 | | |
this PR | 1309.2 | 4919 | -10.02% | -28.37%
Closes#38321
There's apparently a footgun with the way we're using ComServer, which
results in us leaking the extension processes when we think we've
disposed them
The fix unfortunately has to be on the extension side. Extensions
published prior to 0.2 will need to manually fix this.
closes: #39045
On a reload, the system commands fallback would leave the "restart"
fallback behind, for the same reason as what we found around
e40372c & ef264d9 in #38455
I cannot find an issue for this. I swear I filed it somewhere.
If you open winget, search for "terminal", wait till it loads, then
hit `esc`, we'll clear the search and empty the list, but never actually
hide the details pane. That looks weird.
This fixes that.
Closes _nothing i guess_.
This reduces our extension startup time by approximately 70% on my
machine (I have 17 extensions). I'd guess the gains scale with the
number of extensions. That's 8s -> 3s on average, and now I also get 2.5s reloads.
This retains the order of the list of extensions, by only starting the
processes in parallel. Once we have all the command provider instances,
then actually retrieving the commands.
It also adds a timeout on startup & load, so that one misbehaving extension won't block everyone else.
closes: #38529
Closes#38829
If we always UpdateProperty here, then there's a possible
race condition, where we raise the PropertyChanged(SearchText)
before the subclass actually retrieves the new SearchText from the
model. In that race situation, if the UI thread handles the
PropertyChanged before ListViewModel fetches the SearchText, it'll
think that the old search text is the _new_ value.
* starting AoT flag push
* Few more
* bookmarks
* Really? The VM project compiles?
* Disable publish AOT before we really testing it.
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_targets #38573_
At first I just wanted to add support for nested context menus.
But then I also had to add a search box, so the focus wouldn't get weird.
End result:
This gets rid of the need to have the search box and the command bar both track item keybindings - now it's just in the command bar.
Closes#38299Closes#38442
* [x] Re-adds the context menu shortcut text
* [x] Hooks up the keybindings to the search box so that you can just press the keys while you have an item selected, and do a context command
* [x] Hook these keybindings up to the context flyout itself
* [x] Adds a sample for testing
Solves #38271
**WARNING:** This PR will probably blow up all in-flight PRs
at some point in the early days of CmdPal, two of us created seperate
`Exts` and `exts` dirs. Depending on what the casing was on the branch
that you checked one of those out from, it'd get stuck like that on your
PC forever.
Windows didn't care, so we never noticed.
But GitHub does care, and now browsing the source on GitHub is basically
impossible.
Closes#38081
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Added a settings to enable/disable the system tray icon (enabled by default).
Adopter the term "system tray icon" for consistency with Windows 11 settings.
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- [x] **Closes:** #38407
The problem:
> * we need to go update all the Fallback commands. (these are ones that extensions can use to react to the search text - basically, "what the user typed wasn't found immediately, but here's something they can fall back on"
> * this is wacky, because the way I had it, I update each item, and if it "changes visibility", then we need to update the main list, because we've already removed it from the list. So we need to re-update the list to account for that
> * you missed it reading that (and i missed it writing it) but that basically means we re-populate the list F={num fallbacks} times, because each one sends the "do it again" message
> * That results in us basically creating (F+1)*(N=num items+apps) view models, initializing them, and not needing most of them
The crux here being a single thread, to update all the fallback items,
that then only raises _one_ items changed at the very end.
I don't love this, one misbehaving fallback could stop all the others. In theory, we should do a parallel update of all these things, with a like, 1s timeout on each leg.
But it has gotta be faster till we can do #38140 (or similar)
Closes: (not sure I filed one). But the first typed character _felt_ slow.
This is a much tidier solution. Don't default _everything_ to a weight of 1 if the query is whitespace. Instead, do a simple string contains check (because FuzzySearch will beef it on just whitespace)
Closes#38133
I originally based this off of #38157, so I know these two won't collide
This only repros on my desktop, so I suppose that means a slower machine is needed
I was mistaken, and assumed we were already operating on a copy here. We weren't. That meant that it was possible for another extension to be detected, change the list, and crash the whole palette.
## Validation Steps Performed
No longer does my desktop crash on startup
More than a couple people hit mYsTeRiOuS iSsUeS on ARM. Extensions would load the first time, but never again. Their processes would start, but the objects would fail to load.
Fortunately, @azchohfi discovered that using `Shmuelie.WinRTServer`, rather than the one pilfered from devhome, doesn't have this problem.
I don't have an ARM machine to validate the changes, but @lauren-ciha thankfully did the groundwork to get this validated in their extension, so I think this should work.
Closes https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/97
There is a bug in command palette where the top level commands from extensions gets duplicated after the extension raises items changed, or when it is requested by CmdPal for any reason. This didn't happen when we kill CmdPal and open it again.
When investigating, I noticed that the `UpdateCommandsForProvider` method was not deleting the top level commands for the extension.
This seems to be happening because the comparison `var isTheSame = wrapper == firstCommand;` is not comparing objects of the same type. It was comparing a `TopLevelViewModel` with a `CommandItem`, and it was never set to `true`.
I change it to compare the `TopLevelViewModel` of both commands, and now it seems to be detecting correctly.
Another option of fix could be comparing the `CommandItem`s.
closes https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/511
---
Another bug that I found while testing today is that when a user uninstalled or updated an extension, it was still being listed as an enabled extension. This was generating duplicates in the top level commands in case of updating an extension, and resulting in unpredictable behavior and occasional crashes in CmdPal.
Added a fix for that on `ExtensionService`, removing the uninstalled extensions also from the `_enabledExtensions` list.
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Make settings window single.
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- [x] **Closes:** https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/581
## Validation Steps Performed
Manual test.
- Open settings windows multiple times
- Activate minimized settings window
Both `TopLevelCommandItemWrapper` and `TopLevelViewModel` were really the same thing. The latter was from an earlier prototype, and the former is a more correct, safer abstraction. We really should have only ever used the former, but alas, we only used it for the SUI, and it piggy-backed off the latter, and that meant the latter's bugs became the former's.
tldr: I made the icon access safe in the SUI.
And while I was doing this, because we now have a cleaner VM abstraction here in the host, we can actually cleanly disable extensions, because the `CommandProviderWrapper` knows which `ViewModel`s it made.
Closes https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/426
Closes https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/478
Closes https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/577
Windows Command Palette ("CmdPal") is the next iteration of PowerToys Run. With extensibility at its core, the Command Palette is your one-stop launcher to start _anything_.
By default, CmdPal is bound to <kbd>Win+Alt+Space</kbd>.
----
This brings the current preview version of CmdPal into the upstream PowerToys repo. There are still lots of bugs to work out, but it's reached the state we're ready to start sharing it with the world. From here, we can further collaborate with the community on the features that are important, and ensuring that we've got a most robust API to enable developers to build whatever extensions they want.
Most of the built-in PT Run modules have already been ported to CmdPal's extension API. Those include:
* Installed apps
* Shell commands
* File search (powered by the indexer)
* Windows Registry search
* Web search
* Windows Terminal Profiles
* Windows Services
* Windows settings
There are a couple new extensions built-in
* You can now search for packages on `winget` and install them right from the palette. This also powers searching for extensions for the palette
* The calculator has an entirely new implementation. This is currently less feature complete than the original PT Run one - we're looking forward to updating it to be more complete for future ingestion in Windows
* "Bookmarks" allow you to save shortcuts to files, folders, and webpages as top-level commands in the palette.
We've got a bunch of other samples too, in this repo and elsewhere
### PowerToys specific notes
CmdPal will eventually graduate out of PowerToys to live as its own application, which is why it's implemented just a little differently than most other modules. Enabling CmdPal will install its `msix` package.
The CI was minorly changed to support CmdPal version numbers independent of PowerToys itself. It doesn't make sense for us to start CmdPal at v0.90, and in the future, we want to be able to rev CmdPal independently of PT itself.
Closes#3200, closes#3600, closes#7770, closes#34273, closes#36471, closes#20976, closes#14495
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TODOs et al
**Blocking:**
- [ ] Images and descriptions in Settings and OOBE need to be properly defined, as mentioned before
- [ ] Niels is on it
- [x] Doesn't start properly from PowerToys unless the fix PR is merged.
- https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/556 merged
- [x] I seem to lose focus a lot when I press on some limits, like between the search bar and the results.
- This is https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/427
- [x] Turned off an extension like Calculator and it was still working.
- Need to get rid of that toggle, it doesn't do anything currently
- [x] `ListViewModel.<FetchItems>` crash
- Pretty confident that was fixed in https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/553
**Not blocking / improvements:**
- Show the shortcut through settings, as mentioned before, or create a button that would open CmdPalette settings.
- When PowerToys starts, CmdPalette is always shown if enabled. That's weird when just starting PowerToys/ logging in to the computer with PowerToys auto-start activated. I think this should at least be a setting.
- Needing to double press a result for it to do the default action seems quirky. If one is already selected, I think just pressing should be enough for it to do the action.
- This is currently a setting, though we're thinking of changing the setting even more: https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/392
- There's no URI extension. Was surprised when typing a URL that it only proposed a web search.
- [x] There's no System commands extension. Was expecting to be able to quickly restart the computer by typing restart but it wasn't there.
- This is in PR https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/452
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