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Tech detective or headline shorthand? Here’s what’s actually changing under the hood — and what you can do about it. A popular write‑up on Touch Reviews summarizes a claim by a tech creator (named in that piece as “epcidiy”) that Windows 11’s perceived sluggishness — slow right‑click menus...

At the recent Microsoft Build 2025 conference, GitHub Copilot unveiled a series of transformative updates, solidifying its role as an indispensable AI partner for developers. These enhancements include advanced prompt management, asynchronous coding capabilities, and the introduction of an...

In a recent discussion, Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen shed light on the intricacies of the Windows clipboard, emphasizing its design for optimal performance. Chen, known for his deep dives into Windows architecture, explained that the clipboard's asynchronous operation is a deliberate choice...

We’ve just published an update to the Console UWP App project templates on the Visual Studio marketplace here. The latest version (v1.5) adds support for C#. The C# template code only works with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 or later. In a previous post, I described how to build a simple...

Babylon.js is an open source framework designed from ground up to help create easy and powerful 3D experiences in your browser or your web apps. Today I’m excited to announce the availability of Babylon v3.2. As usual, our wonderful community helped build a massive list of features and fixes...

As the web becomes more interactive, web pages are becoming increasingly reliant on JavaScript for core functionality, such as input, rendering, layout, and composition. As more and more of this core functionality moves to the client side, it becomes imperative for browsers to adopt smart...

Scrolling is one of the oldest interactions on the web. Long before we had pull-to-refresh or infinite-loading lists, the humble scrollbar solved the web’s original scaling problem: how can we interact with content that’s stretched beyond the available viewport...

In today’s post, we’re covering how PC software can leverage the rich functionality of Windows 10. This is valuable background for the upcoming post “Adding UWP Features to Your Existing PC Software with the Desktop Bridge,” which will go into even more detail on the topic in the coming days...

The Windows Runtime (WinRT) is the technology that powers the Universal Windows Platform, letting developers write applications that are common to all Windows devices, from Xbox to PCs to HoloLens to phones. Most of UWP can also be used by developers targeting traditional desktop applications...

This week on Channel 9, Mark DeFalco and Nikola discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed The New TWC9, Same as the old TWC9... Link Removed Havok to join Microsoft Link Removed AzureCon Keynote Announcements: India Regions, GPU Support, IoT Suite, Container Service, and...

While we work on rounding out our ES6/ES2015 support, the Chakra team is already looking ahead to ES2016 and, especially, to Link Removed. Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Async Functions in Microsoft Edge as an experimental feature, available to preview starting in Link...

Today marks the initial release of Mobilize.NET’s Silverlight bridge, which helps Windows Phone Silverlight app developers bring their WP Silverlight 8.x apps to the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Announced at Build 2015, the Moblize.NET bridge is free and directly integrates into...

ECMAScript is the official name for the JavaScript language we all know and love. The next version of ECMAScript, ES6 (henceforth referred to by its new name, ES2015), is nearing the end of its standards process journey. At this stage Link Removed is final and will not be receiving any further...

This session covers the nuts and bolts of several key innovative compiler and runtime technologies we will be delivering in Visual Studio 2015 and its updates. New investments in the compiler and runtime space include: Improved optimization and auto-vectorization, /Guard secure code generation...

Today's episode is somewhat overdue, as the Cross-Platform Mobile Development experience has actually been in VS2015 previews since, well, Preview. Join us in today's packed episode as we go behind the scenes with Ankit and Ion on how the experience came to pass, what Visual Studio can bring to...

Today's project comes from Charles Torre. While the component's source isn't currently available, when I saw this post on the Visual Studio Gallery was from him, what looks like his first, well had to share it! As if I need to tell you all this, but we live in a connected world, more so every...

Hi, I am loading images manually in my code as follows: When I call inStream.Dispose sometimes the images are not displayed. It seems that the file is disposed before the bitmap image completed to copy it. When should I dispose my fine in order to avoid memory leaks? private...

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...

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Learn how to wrap existing event sources, including tasks, asynchronous methods, .NET events, etc. in observable sequences. Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed