With Windows 10, it’s now easier than ever to support natural input in your apps and today we’d like to highlight using inking and speech to interact more naturally with your users.
Digital inking with DirectInk
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Building Windows 10 IoT? Then you'll want to check out the Link Removed and Brian Rockwell's great post on how to use it...
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AllJoyn® in Windows® 10
An AllJoyn® development toolkit to quick-start AllJoyn® development.
The AllSeen Alliance created AllJoyn® to empower the Internet...
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Over the past several months, we have made numerous improvements to the Microsoft Edge rendering engine (Microsoft EdgeHTML), focusing on interoperability with modern browsers and compliance with new and emerging standards. In addition to powering Microsoft Edge, EdgeHTML is also available for...
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Link Removedrecently posted this great .NET Analyzer round-up. A few I've seen and highlighted but a couple I'd not, which makes his post one of my favorite kinds... :)
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Refactoring Essentials - Open Source, Cross Platform Refactoring and Analyzers
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Even with the Channel 9 Studio closed in order to host the Channel 9 Live: Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 event, there was still a huge number of posts this week! Here are just 30 of them...
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This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Vlad discuss the week's top developer news, including...
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This blog was written by Rinku Sreedhar, Senior Program Manager
In Windows 10, we are very excited to introduce several APIs for contextual sensing that can help you build apps to improve your customers’ daily lives. These include apps that detect presence when customers approach their devices...
Okay, so this isn't a Visual Studio Extension, but I figure cool SDK's are a good Monday fit too...
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The Link Removed made a big splash when it was announced, but since it's been a little quite. I personally wasn't following much about it because I didn't have a Sprout and you...
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Today we revisit the Visual Studio 2015 Extensibility story that was started covering in The Future of Visual Studio Extensions is Bright (and easier :), talking about more of the extension goodness that's available and then about the new Common Project System.
First Heather Brown, Principal...
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In Windows 10, the Chakra JavaScript engine powers Link Removed and Windows applications written in HTML/CSS/JS. However with JavaScript’s increasing popularity in beyond-the-browser scenarios, developers have been requesting to host the Chakra engine outside the browser to enable JavaScript...
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As a truly personal digital assistant, Cortana is there to help people get things done. When we set out to design Cortana, we talked to real world personal assistants and learned that they do a few things really well, and rely on a network of experts for everything else.
Cortana is no...
I look back on this past quarter and kind of say, "wow." So much has been released, there was so much news that even with this round-up, it's hard to grok it all.
Then I try to imagine what the NEXT quarterly round-up, post BUILD/Ignite, will look like [Brain Explodes]...
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At Mobile World Congress 2015, Kevin Gallo gave the world a first look at the Windows 10 universal app platform. Kevin provided background into how developers can achieve scale through reach across device types, and introduced adaptive UX, natural user inputs and cloud-based services to help...
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Earlier today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I provided developers a first look at the Windows 10 developer platform strategy and universal app platform. I encourage you to tune in to our Build conference in April for the full story.
Windows 10 represents the culmination of our platform...
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The Kinect for Windows SDK v2 is almost out, the SDK is just about ready for public beta and the excitement is really starting to grow. A number of developers, including many of you, have been coding your fingers off in the private alpha/developer preview program.
Until the curtains go up on...
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Friends of the Gallery, Ben Lower and Rob Relyea are hosting a free, live, day long Jump Start just for you, the Kinect for Windows v2 developer...
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Devs, are you looking forward to building apps with Kinect for Windows v2 this summer? In this Jump Start, explore the brand new...
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With the coming release of the Kinect for Windows v2 device, which you can pre-order now, we should start seeing more of our favorite frameworks, utilities and tools being updated.
We've highlighted Kinect Common Bridge a couple times before, Kids, Kinect, Cinder and some C++ too... Meet the...
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Describes an update that provides new APIs to Windows 7 or to Windows Server 2008 R2. The new APIs improve the accuracy of the conversion between local time and UTC.
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The new Windows Runtime is adopting a heavily asynchronous programming model to ensure the responsiveness of Windows 8 client apps. This makes it more critical than ever to have great support for asynchronous programming in C++. Learn about the PPL async library innovations and how these...
The Windows Runtime enable developers from a variety of languages – JavaScript, C#, Visual Basic and C++ - to use the Windows APIs in a natural and familiar way. But did you know that you can build your own components that project into those same languages for use in your Metro style apps? Watch...