app development

Windows App Studio Beta is a free online app creation tool that gives everyone the ability to create an app, regardless of experience. It is designed to help people easily bring an app idea to life by applying text, web content, images, and design concepts to a rich set of customizable...

At Build 2015, Link Removedprovided a great introduction to the Universal Windows Platform and several of the Windows 10 features developers can enable. With over 2,500 new platform features for your app to leverage, the Universal Windows Platform makes it easier to design, develop, debug and...

Drones! It's been like forever since we've highlighted drones here, so when I saw this and that Shahed Chowdhuri not only used an Xbox Controller but also Windows 10, well heck, there's no way I could pass that up! Flying a Drone with Windows 10 and an Xbox Controller ... Introduction I...

Printing has been a key role of computing since the beginning of the personal computer. While users have moved more and more towards smartphones and tablets as their primary computing device, many critical business functions, or common activities, still rely on printed output. This session will...

Microsoft is making big Link Removed in the Internet of Things (IoT). Windows 10 IoT will power a range of intelligent, connected IoT devices. From small devices like gateways, to mobile point-of-sale to powerful industry devices like robotics and specialty medical devices. At the //build...

Recently at Link Removed and in the Microsoft Edge Web Platform Summit, we have talked about how our focus on bringing our teams and the technologies behind our web platform closer to the broader community of developers. We’ve made it a priority to contribute to open source projects that improve...

Hello from day 2 of Link Removed in San Francisco. David Treadwell and I just gave the audience a peek at many of the new capabilities the new Universal Window Platform will enable, along with the associated tools and services. We also provided more insight into the Link Removed announced by...

Hello from Build 2015 in San Francisco! Earlier today we revealed more details about Link Removed and shared the new ways for building more personal mobile experiences that you can monetize across one billion Windows 10 customers. During the remainder of the conference, we’ll go deep into each...

Starting today at Link Removed in San Francisco, we’re going deep on details around Windows 10. This morning, Link Removed described our goal to bring Windows 10 to a billion devices over the next two-three years, and showed off a number of innovations that will help us reach more individual...

Tango Chen, Friend of the Galley, provides an amazing inspirational post... I don't think I've seen anything like this! Motion Server – One Kinect v2 on Multiple Devices One day I felt that using one Kinect on one PC isn’t enough. There could be more interesting things to do with multiple...

This blog is the latest in a recurring series about recent Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Understanding these trends can help you determine what types of apps to build or where to focus your development efforts. Data from the Windows Store is presented alongside the Windows...

This guest blog post is the final post of a 3-part series written by Windows developer Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original 3rd post on Jani’s blog Link Removed, and refer to Part 1 Link Removed and Part 2 here. Moving the ship When we’re doing a universal app, we have to take in account...

I've highlighted Link Removed just a few times... TouchDevelop to Arduino TouchDevelop v3 - WinPhone 8, Speech, NFC, Tiles and much more... Reach out and touch the net with TouchDevelop and MaKey MaKey Develop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone... TouchDevelop Getting in touch with...

Today's project is cool fan created Windows 8.1 app for an area near and dear to my heart... Link Removed Introduction The app tutorial for Windows Blog Reader at msdn.com is out of date, the feed links don't work, and there are some other unknown problems. To Address that problem, I took...

Glu Mobile, the developer of the popular "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" game, said it will develop a new mobile game with singer Katy Perry. Continue reading...

One of the stars of last week's Windows 10 Event was undeniably Cortana. Today we are going to share not one, not two, but three different Cortana dev posts... First a post from Link Removed; Link Removed I wrote a little in this Link Removed about the basics of integrating Cortana into a...

This white paper details the features in Windows Phone 8.1 that you can use to create a UICC-based NFC card-emulation app. Link Removed

Hello guys! I developed two apps for Windows 8.1 and with them I participate to one contest at my university!I would appreciate if you can give me one download for each one.MovieLock is an app which gets data from themoviedb database and can change your windows lock screen.CurrencyConv is a...

Today's project shows off a simple yet "real" universal application that's already available in the Stores for free, but the source is available too... Link Removed This is a sample which creates a universal Windows app written in C#, that runs on both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. You...

Hello everyone, it is my first post here, my sentence may sound weird. I'm looking for a Media Browser for my Movies/tvShows, I have a lot of movies and tvshows and simply use the explorer to go through my files, but i like clean/good looking stuff. I imported picture of the show/movie in my...