🚧 Parameters for project creation

[mrlacey]

For CommunityToolkit/Tooling-Windows-Submodule#65

What this does:

• A generated experiment will now only include the "classic" version of a control template.
• If the parameter --backed is included when calling dotnet new labexp the generated experiment will include a control that uses a style with a code-behind file, so that it's possible to use x:Bind.

This looks to be blocked by a Uno issue and so may need #174
Also, for this to be useful, it also needs #180 to be fixed.

[mrlacey]

paging @michael-hawker @Arlodotexe for comments on the above open questions.

[Arlodotexe]

Should a netStandard project still be in the CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI namespace? (even though "WinUI" is removed from the project name.)

Probably not, especially if we aren't using WinUI there. @michael-hawker do we want to just remove the WinUI or add something to maybe match up with the dotnet toolkit.

[Arlodotexe]

In the netstandard version, we'll also want to use a normal .NET 6 MSTest project, rather than the full UWP/WinAppSDK UI test projects currently used.

[michael-hawker]

Discussed during our meeting, we're going to open a new issue to track a .NET Standard option, most likely as a whole separate template, but table that for now.

Matt's going to investigate the --backed option and if we can point the csproj for samples/source to the other folders with linked files so the base solution still functions. And then have that ignored by the template generatation with a <!--#if (internal) --> type guard.

[michael-hawker]

Based on the error message, looks like something was missed from being excluded (e.g. looking for classical in backed).

[mrlacey]

Removing the creation of two versions of the experiments as this is only useful if also combining them into the "All" solution.
I don't believe this is appropriate as part of the CI and so will rely on manual verification of this (for now)

[michael-hawker]

Yeah, next week I'll look into seeing if we can split out the workflows and use the path filtering so we only run the template/experiment job when the common/template folders have changes.

[mrlacey]

Failure looks to be due to the Uno SourceGenerators not seeing the files linked from the "..*-backed" and "..*-classic" directories.

[michael-hawker]

Bubbling up the error from the CI here:

"D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\ProjectTemplate.sln" (default target) (1:2) ->
"D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src\CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI.ProjectTemplate.csproj" (default target) (2:28) ->
"D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src\CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI.ProjectTemplate.csproj" (Build target) (2:33) ->
(MarkupCompilePass2 target) -> 
  D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src-backed\ProjectTemplateStyle_xBind.xaml(26,12): XamlCompiler error WMC0110: Unknown target type 'labs:ProjectTemplate_xBind' [D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src\CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI.ProjectTemplate.csproj]
  D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src-backed\ProjectTemplateStyle_xBind.xaml(29,12): XamlCompiler error WMC0110: Unknown target type 'labs:ProjectTemplate_xBind' [D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src\CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI.ProjectTemplate.csproj]
  D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src-backed\ProjectTemplateStyle_xBind.xaml(62,12): XamlCompiler error WMC0110: Unknown target type 'labs:ProjectTemplate_xBind' [D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src\CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI.ProjectTemplate.csproj]
  D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src-backed\ProjectTemplateStyle_xBind.xaml(40,34): XamlCompiler error WMC0909: Cannot resolve DataType labs:ProjectTemplate_xBind [D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src\CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI.ProjectTemplate.csproj]
  ..\src-backed\ProjectTemplateStyle_xBind.xaml(41,38): XamlCompiler error WMC1111: DataTemplates containing x:Bind need a DataType to be specified using 'x:DataType' [D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src\CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI.ProjectTemplate.csproj]
  D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src-classic\ProjectTemplateStyle_ClassicBinding.xaml(25,12): XamlCompiler error WMC0110: Unknown target type 'labs:ProjectTemplate_ClassicBinding' [D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src\CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI.ProjectTemplate.csproj]
  D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src-classic\ProjectTemplateStyle_ClassicBinding.xaml(28,12): XamlCompiler error WMC0110: Unknown target type 'labs:ProjectTemplate_ClassicBinding' [D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src\CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI.ProjectTemplate.csproj]
  D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src-classic\ProjectTemplateStyle_ClassicBinding.xaml(55,12): XamlCompiler error WMC0110: Unknown target type 'labs:ProjectTemplate_ClassicBinding' [D:\a\Labs-Windows\Labs-Windows\template\lab\src\CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI.ProjectTemplate.csproj]

[Arlodotexe]

Closing PR as stale. We'll use the code here an example, but the changes are so diverged by now (not even the same repo) that we'll need to redo it.