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    Extend your desktop application with Windows 10 features using the new Visual Studio Application Packaging Project

    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...
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    Configure your app to start at log-in

    For a long time, desktop PC users have been able to configure Win32 apps to start at startup or user log-in. This has also been possible for Desktop Bridge apps since the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (v10.0.14393.0). We’ve now extended this feature to allow regular Universal Windows Apps to...
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    Roaming app data and the user experience

    Link Removed The user experience for roaming app data is similar to a magic trick. Work is done behind the scenes to create the illusion that data is moving from place to place when, in fact, all that really happens is data gets copied and destroyed, over and over. The data itself never...
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    Using "Drag and Drop" in your Universal Windows App | Inside Windows Platform

    In Windows 10, we've made it exceedingly easy to add "Drag and Drop" functionality to your UWP application. As you're probably aware, "drag and drop" is by no means a new feature for Windows applications. For a very long time, the notion for the user to able to move objects within a single...
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    Kinect for Windows v2 Speech Recognition Sample

    If you've been following this blog for any length of time, you know how much I like the Kinect voice recognition and its potential. Every single time I use my Xbox One, it's just so natural to "Xbox Pause" or "Xbox Turn Off"... Zubair Ahmed has just shared a simple sample, but simple in that...
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