Earlier this year, NPR released a Windows 8 version of Link Removed, and recently, a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version. They were eager to share their challenges and developer experiences in bringing the app to UWP.
Link Removed provides talk radio personalized for each listener. NPR’s...
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Starting this week you will see new capabilities in Dev Center. In this blog I’ll describe what’s new in more detail and share ideas how to make best use of them:
App submission: new price tiers, and preview of a new age rating system that will start to be rolled out in December
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This past August we announced the Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK with support for video interstitial ads and ad mediation. Video interstitials are full screen video ads, 20-30 seconds, that typically offer up to 10x the eCPM (value per thousand views) vs traditional banner ads. This makes...
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With Hosted Web Apps, you are able to use Ionic, a simple drag & drop interface tool, for building native UWP apps for Windows 10 with a click of the mouse. This short video illustrates how to take your Ionic app and deploy it across Windows and other supported platforms. For more information...
In our final post of the Windows 10 by 10 development series, we’ll talk about the feature introductions and enhancements in Windows 10 that help you create more secure apps. When we think of security, we can split it up in these three main areas: authentication, data-in-flight and data-at-rest...
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We're back with a Theme Week, this time focusing on... wait for it... Windows 10 (Okay, I had a number of Win10 posts in the queue, so thought this a good means to get them out. :)
Visual Studio Project Templates are great tools to help you kick off a new project quickly. They can help scaffold...
ManifoldJS, the tool that turns your web apps into store apps, just got better. With version 0.4.0 you can now build and submit Windows 10 apps from any platform! This short video walks you through the process of building, packaging and submitting a Windows 10 app from your Mac.
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One way to learn app development for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is by taking advantage of the extensive and growing samples collection on GitHub. You can use these samples to learn about specific UWP features and APIs and as a source of working code that you can copy and paste into...
In this episode, Robert is joined by Link Removed, who shows us how to integrate Cortana into apps. Among the topics Nick covers and shows are voice commands, speech recognition and synthesis, background voice commands and continuous dictation.
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With the Universal Windows Platform in Windows 10, your apps will now run on a number of device families and automatically scale across the different screen and window sizes, supported by the platform controls. In the next three weeks of the Windows 10 by 10 development series, we’re going to...
Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2012 enables remote debugging, remote testing, and performance unit testing on computers that don't have Visual Studio installed. This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, deployment, and performance profiling of Windows apps to...
Microsoft is releasing two new Dev Center features to simplify and streamline management of ads-in-apps as well as releasing the campaign tracking feature that we announced earlier:
pubCenter integration with Dev Center, to manage everything related to your apps in one place
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This week’s theme in our Windows 10 by 10 development series is extending customer engagement using the Windows 10 without your users even entering your app. Last week’s topic, Live Tiles and notifications showed how one way to extend your app’s experience, now let’s show how to use the Windows...
Last week, we talked about how you can do Link Removed by Windows 10 customers. This week, we’d like to continue with how to increase customer engagement through some of the most loved features of Windows apps: Live Tiles and toast notifications.
If you’re already a Windows app developer, you...
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Today, Microsoft is releasing several important capabilities that allow you to increase ad revenue in your apps:
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Support for video interstitials on Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10, ideal for games
Ad mediation for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 apps, to...
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With Visual Studio 2015 now available and today being the start of the Windows 10 release wave and Cortana being just so cool, this post from Arun Kumar Surya Prakash is a perfect for today...
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Microsoft has introduced Cortana in 2014 Build Event. With just one year now Cortana...
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We’re pleased to announce a new open source library for integrating Facebook into your Windows apps. The Windows SDK for Facebook is geared towards app developers creating Universal Windows apps on both desktop and phone. The SDK supports universal Windows app for Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 8.1...
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Higher user ratings are one of the success factors for apps in the Windows Store. Understanding and acting on customer reviews and minimizing app crashes help increase customer satisfaction, and that in turn will increase app ratings.
In the new unified Dev Center dashboard you now have access...
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17 of the many great posts, episodes and shows from last week.
Can you feel the excitement building yet? Just a couple more weeks!
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A technical evangelist explains how he uses OneNote for collaboration with his teammates. OneNote provides a central location where the entire team...
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July will be a big month for developers with the releases of Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10, and the Universal Windows App Development Tools, which includes the Windows 10 SDK. The purpose of this post is to make you aware of the key dates and some things to keep in mind with regard to version...
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