application lifecycle

  1. Microsoft's Future of Windows Updates: Unified App Management in Private Preview

    For years, managing software updates has been an often-frustrating patchwork experience for Windows users. Each application seems to have its own update checker—or sometimes none at all. Power users cobble together workflows with the Microsoft Store, standalone updaters, command-line tools like...
  2. Background activity with the Single Process Model

    Interested in running your application in the background? A new developer option available in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update just made background activity a whole lot easier. Your feedback was clear on the multiple process model: while doing background work in a separate process was more...
  3. Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 RC

    Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 RC is a source-code-control, project-management, and team-collaboration platform at the core of the Microsoft suite of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, which help teams be more agile, collaborate more effectively, and deliver quality...