This scenario tracks the remaining work to productize the UWP and WPF versions of the Terminal Control. These will allow 3rd-party developers to embed terminal instances in their applications. That way, external developers won't need to write their own terminals, they can just re-use the one we build in this repo.

Currently, the Windows Terminal uses the UWP version of the control. Similarly, Visual Studio embeds the WPF version.

Pre-Requisites

These tasks aren't immediately related, but will need to get done first to unblock this work

• Scenario: Windows Terminal 2.0 Process Model Improvements #5000 / Add support for tab tearoff and tab merge #1256: I'm planning on tearing up the TermControl as a part of the window/content process model refactor. Undoubtably, this will affect the API boundary that will be exposed
• ConPTY: pass through requests for the alt buffer #381: Before we ask anyone else to use us, we should probably be a better terminal emulator. The Alt buffer is an important part of that story.
• Should we perhaps also finish the VT implementation for the TerminalCore as well? Currently the Terminal Core only implements the VT sequences that ConPTY will emit. Hypothetically, someone might be using this in a scenario where conpty isn't on the other end.

Tasks

## Tasks
- [x] Introduce abstraction layer between TermControl and TerminalCore (aka Interactivity) #6842
- [ ] Tear out the `SearchBoxControl` from the `TermControl`, so it can be its own control
- [ ] Remove the SharedShadow thing in SearchBoxControl, noted in #12913
- [ ] Finalize API boundary - Where is the real line between `TermControl` / `ControlInteractivity` / `ControlCore`?
- [ ] Re-base the WPF control on the shared `TerminalContent`.
- [ ] Package as a nuget
- [ ] Deploy to some nuget feed somewhere?
- [ ] #4572
- [x] #3337
- [ ] #13408
- [ ] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/15404
- [ ] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/6967
- [ ] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/6996
- [ ] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5094
- [ ] Pasting is super wacky. The control shouldn't ask the app to paste to it.
- [ ] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1304
- [ ] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/14407
- [ ] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/13681
- [ ] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/16404

related

• Scenario: TerminalControl Interactivity Improvements Scenario: TerminalControl Interactivity Improvements #6106
• starting Terminal with wt no longer returns the main window handle of the resulting window starting Terminal with wt no longer returns the main window handle of the resulting window #7084
  • This is the "reparent the terminal to another HWND thread"