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In Windows 10 version 2004, we are introducing the concept of Hosted Apps to the Windows App Model. Hosted apps are registered as independent apps on Windows, but require a host process in order to run. An example would be a script file which requires its host (eg: Powershell or Python) to be...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 19028 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 19028 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

Visual Studio 2017 15.4 introduced the new Windows Application Packaging project to help you modernizing your application by using the new Windows 10 App Deployment Stack. We talked about it in our previous post: Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 makes it easy to modernize your app and make it store...

At Build this year, we gave a sneak preview of a set of new APIs designed to provide diagnostic information about running apps. You can see the videos Link Removed and Link Removed – but note that these were based on a pre-release implementation. So, while the Build videos are still correct on...

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15063 for PC and Mobile to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. Other changes, improvements, and fixes for PC We fixed a reliability issue from Build 15061 resulting in Microsoft Edge hanging and...

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15025 for Mobile to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. What’s new in Build 15025 for Mobile Microsoft Edge can now read aloud: Microsoft Edge will now read aloud* your e-books just like on PC! Just press the...

The Windows platform targets all kinds of devices: desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, HoloLens, IoT and Xbox. As a developer you want your users to have a great user experience with your app across the entire breadth of devices it is available on. Each of these devices has unique capabilities...

You’ve just boarded your airplane flight, found a free spot in the overhead to store your carry-on and settle in for the journey by pulling out your Windows 10 device to check for status updates on your various social networks. Suddenly, you are aware of a polite flight attendant hovering over...

What is Rtmd Process in Windows?

Last month, we provided an overview of the Desktop Bridge in this blog post. We are excited to announce that since then we’ve released a new version of the desktop app converter, adding support for great new features and fixing several issues to provide a more stable environment. To learn more...

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...

At Build 2016, we showed you how to use the Desktop App Converter to bring your existing desktop applications to the universal .appx packaging format as a first step to bringing your application to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Once on UWP, your apps are easier for users to manage and...

I installed Windows 10 (upgrading a Windows 7 Toshiba Laptop) several weeks ago and everything seemed to be working fine. A few days ago I started to see that when I went to close down the laptop "Task Host stopping background tasks" If I cancelled the shutdown (thinking something was still...

MSDN magazine has released a special Windows 10 issue. The issue spans a large number of topics from Visual Studio tooling to game development to user experience to notifications. If you don’t get the print magazine, don’t worry, all the articles are online for free. Here is the complete list...

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...

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...

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... Link Removed Microsoft has introduced Cortana in 2014 Build Event. With just one year now Cortana...

About a month ago we highlighted the Microsoft Band in a link round-up post, Developing for the Microsoft Band Link Round-up. Since then the Microsoft Band SDK, Link Removed, was fully released... Link Removed Today, we’re announcing the full release of the Microsoft Band SDK. Visit Link...