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Principal Software Engineer @microsoft I work on UI frameworks and other stuff! #reactnative #windows #winui

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Hi there, I'm Alex! 👋

🔭 I’m currently working on React Native for Windows
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😄 Pronouns: He/Him
⚡ Fun fact: I like to play the piano!

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microsoft/react-native-xaml

A React Native Windows library to use XAML / WinUI controls

C++ 17 4
XamlTreeDump

A UWP library to produce and compare XAML tree dumps useful for visual end-to-end testing

C# 4 1
unbroken

Markdown link validator

TypeScript 2 4
winmd2md

Generate markdown documentation stubs from Windows Metadata

C++ 2 1

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Contributed to microsoft/react-native-windows, microsoft/react-native-xaml, microsoft/react-native-windows-samples and 5 other repositories

Contribution activity

August 2021

Created 161 commits in 11 repositories

Created 3 repositories

asklar/vscode-react-native TypeScript Aug 18
asklar/xaml-islands C++ Aug 14
asklar/xlang C++ Aug 6

Created a pull request in microsoft/WindowsAppSDK that received 2 comments

Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

+6 −0 • 2 comments

Opened 36 other pull requests in 7 repositories

asklar/midl-langserv 24 merged

More tests Aug 23
Allow create property even if we can't find the header Aug 21
0821 Aug 21
Map MIDL types to cppwinrt types. Add command telemetry Aug 21
Create C++/WinRT property Aug 21
Allow namespaced ids to be used in method calls (for attribute usage) Aug 17
allow preprocessor outside the prolog Aug 16
Update repo url & allow nested namespaces Aug 16
Produce some tokens even if parse fails Aug 16
Code actions for using midl3 types Aug 15
telemetry opt-out Aug 14
overridable in properties Aug 14
add good idls test Aug 12
update parser with more constructs, make classic type checking use the tokenization Aug 11
Apicontract and floats Aug 11
emit punctuation token and fix off-by-one error in calculating token … Aug 11
Update Logo Aug 11
fix newline at EOF Aug 11
Fix some bugs Aug 10
Move grammar to Peg, move parsing to server Aug 10
fix attribute Aug 10
Package tags and keywords Aug 9
Gather basic usage telemetry Aug 5
"Instead use" in diagnostics Aug 5

microsoft/react-native-windows 2 merged 1 closed

microsoft/react-native-windows-samples 1 open 2 merged

asklar/xaml-islands 2 merged

use inline button Aug 27
Winui playground Aug 27

microsoft/react-native-xaml 2 merged

serialize Color Aug 18
Codegen Priority enums Aug 2

microsoft/vscode-react-native 1 merged

Update errorStrings.ts Aug 18

asklar/winmd2md 1 merged

Produce docs for events Aug 3

Reviewed 44 pull requests in 16 repositories

microsoft/react-native-windows 25 pull requests

microsoft/react-native-windows-samples 4 pull requests

Flip Default Version to 0.65 Aug 24
Cut Version 0.65 Docs and Update API Documentation Aug 18
Add useWinUI3 and experimentalFeatures config Aug 17
Added article and demo on using a Win32 component Aug 6

asklar/unbroken 2 pull requests

Update package.json to include the repository key Aug 13
Bump path-parse from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 Aug 13

microsoft/WindowsAppSDK 1 pull request

Adding WIL dependency in WindowsAppSDK transport package. Aug 26

react-native-svg/react-native-svg 1 pull request

[DRAFT] Add Windows support Aug 23

microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml 1 pull request

Backport WebView2 to WinUI2 Aug 20

react-native-picker/picker 1 pull request

chore: Update example app to RNW 0.64 Aug 19

asklar/midl-langserv 1 pull request

Bump glob-parent from 5.1.1 to 5.1.2 Aug 16

microsoft/fluentui-react-native 1 pull request

Add Expander native component (WinUI 2.6) Aug 11

asklar/winmd2md 1 pull request

Resolve references in descriptions and fix Formatter::ToString Aug 10

MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp 1 pull request

Add information about building React Native for Windows apps Aug 9

MicrosoftDocs/winrt-api 1 pull request

Update DesktopWindowXamlSource to describe how to avoid leaks Aug 9

microsoft/CsWinRT 1 pull request

Check that a class correctly implements its interfaces Aug 6

react-native-community/directory 1 pull request

Add fluent ui dependency in json file. Aug 6

react-native-webview/react-native-webview 1 pull request

fix(windows): Navigation to ms-appdata and ms-appx-web local file request on Windows Aug 5

brodybits/create-react-native-module 1 pull request

docs: add pointer for Windows target platform Aug 2

Created an issue in microsoft/react-native-windows that received 8 comments

View managers should be able to handle/capture pointer events

copying from @rozele's PR here so we can have a design discussion: #8495 Currently, there is no way for ViewManagers to capture the pointer to per…

8 comments

Opened 21 other issues in 14 repositories

microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml 3 open 1 closed

microsoft/react-native-windows 2 open 1 closed

asklar/midl-langserv 2 closed

Attributes applied to class extends Aug 22
Add test IDLs Aug 17

microsoft/CsWinRT 2 open

Decouple Generator from WinUI 3 Aug 6
Refactor source generator Aug 6

MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp 1 open

Corrupted glyph names in Segoe MDL2 assets icon page Aug 23

microsoft/react-native-windows-samples 1 open

Add Showcase page Aug 20

mochajs/mocha 1 closed

dynamically generating tests doesn't work with tdd (works with bdd) Aug 12

microsoft/ApplicationInsights-node.js 1 open

warning when using webpack about applicationinsights-native-metrics Aug 11

peggyjs/peggy 1 open

Improve SEO / incoming links Aug 11

MicrosoftDocs/winrt-related 1 closed

Overrideable or overridable? Aug 10

NuGetPackageExplorer/NuGetPackageExplorer 1 open

[Feature] Include on-disk size of expanded nuget package Aug 9

MikeHillberg/middleweight-reflection 1 open

GetArguments() doesn't return anything for AttributeUsageAttribute Aug 7

dotnet/roslyn 1 open

Adding doc xml comment breaks indentation of the next line Aug 7

CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit 1 open

WCT Sample app Gaze page shows overlapping text, doesn't seem to work Aug 4

20 contributions in private repositories Aug 7 – Aug 16