code samples

In collaboration with our friends in the Selenium project, the Microsoft Edge team is excited to announce that you can now test Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge with Internet Explorer Driver. With just a few changes to an existing test that runs against Internet Explorer, you can get...

In November, we shared our vision for dual-screen devices and how this new device category will help people get more done on smaller and more mobile form factors. Today, we are excited to give you an update on how you can get started and optimize for dual-screen devices by: Exploring preview...

We are excited to announce the launch of interstitial banner ads support in the Microsoft Store Services SDK. Interstitial banner ads have been one of the top Windows Dev Center feature requests since we introduced support for interstitial video ads. What are interstitial banner ads...

Link Removed Project Rome developers have had a month to play with Project Rome for Android SDK (Android SDK), and we hope you are as excited about its capabilities as we are! In this month’s release, we are thrilled to bring you support for app services. Before, we offered the ability to...

We hope everyone had a great vacation and a very happy New Year! We’re excited to be back and while we have a few exciting updates on the way, here are a few things that you might have missed. Patterns & Controls Tutorials Fly out menus. Dialogue boxes. Buttons. Check, check and check. Learn...

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...

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...

Link Removed The TimeTrigger class is extremely useful when your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app has background tasks you want to run periodically. For instance, if you are writing a mail app, you will want to regularly poll for new messages in the background with a time trigger. If you...

Link Removed is all about making it as easy as possible to build apps for Windows. The online tool helps you build apps with no coding required, so you can either start your project there and extend it in Visual Studio, or you can create and build the app completely in the tool. Today, we want...

In this on-location special for Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder invade Raymond Chen's office. Raymond is a 23yr veteran of Microsoft, who's worked on everything from MS-DOS to the Windows 10 UI. We talk about his Blog and Link Removed Old New Thing, Security Reports on the wrong...

We're back with a Theme Week, this time focusing on... wait for it... Windows 10 (Okay, I had a number of Win10 posts in the queue, so thought this a good means to get them out. :) Visual Studio Project Templates are great tools to help you kick off a new project quickly. They can help scaffold...

Rich Dudley reached out to me and based on our recent Raspberry PI posts, suggested I highlight his Blinking an LED with Raspberry Pi 2 and C# Mono post. I almost immediately replied to say it was already in the queue, but double checked first. There was indeed a Raspberry PI 2 LED post in the...

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...

Want to write a 3D game for Windows 8, but not sure where to start? In this video, we'll show you the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, which is now available on the Visual Studio Developer Code Samples site for all editions of Visual Studio 2012 that support writing Windows Store apps, including...

Herb Sutter recently announced C++ AMP at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit as part of his keynote. Here, Daniel Moth, a program manager on Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform Team, digs deeper into C++ AMP with code samples and more. Please download the slides from the link below as the...

This is the news that so many have been waiting for: the new version of Access Control Service finally hit RTW stage! Stuart Kwan, Principal Group Program Manager on the Cloud Identity Platform team and recurrent guest on the IdElement, gives a four-minute introduction to the service and...

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show Link Removed. In this episode, Steve and Wade explain the application architecture of their latest creation—the Link Removed. Like many other popular buttons on the Internet, the...

In this interview, Dmitry Sotnikov (Director of Cloud Solutions) and Einar Mykletun (Security and Compliance Architect) from Quest Software discuss building Quest’s new OnDemand product line – cloud-based IT management services to help IT professionals manage their on-premise Active Directory...