The .NET Community Toolkit 8.0 release has been announced.

Community Toolkit is a collection of helper classes and APIs that can be used by all .NET developers and are platform-independent.

One of the most important components of the Toolkit is the MVVM Toolkit. It is based on MVVMLight, previously a very popular library for developing applications using the MVVM pattern (currently unsupported). For those who still use MVVMLight, there is a plan to switch to Microsoft MVVM Toolkit.

The new version also announced intensive use of code generators (source generators), which will reduce the amount of boilerplate code.