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Welcome to the exciting world of coding with Windows 11! This guide will take you from zero to hero, walking you through everything you need to kickstart your coding journey using the latest Microsoft operating system. Whether you're looking to dive into web development, app programming, or even...

In what some might describe as a bold maneuver to disrupt the software development world, Microsoft has announced that GitHub Copilot, its cutting-edge AI-powered coding assistant, is now completely free for all users. For those keeping up with the tech giants' arm race in AI, this move not only...

The world of artificial intelligence is in a constant state of evolution, with competitive advancements and groundbreaking innovations popping up like mushrooms after a rainstorm. Recently, Anthropic has made a splash with the release of its upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet and an entirely new variant...

Hello, I've been working on implementing level order traversal in my project and encountered some challenges. I followed the guidelines for level order tree traversal. While the content was helpful, I'm currently facing specific issues in applying the concepts. Here are the challenges I'm...

Hi all! As an engineer, is it important to you how much of your code makes it into production? Do you frequently monitor the features and projects you deliver in production, even if it's not your direct responsibility?

My computer was running slow and hot, and I noticed that a process called vmmem was using 85-99% of my CPU at all times. I ran wsl --shutdown in the command line, and shut down my computer. Now, my CPU is running at a more normal level, but I'm concerned that I have a virus on my computer. I...

Hello, I just bought a Lenovo Idea Pad with Windows 11 pre installed on it. However I cannot tolerate Windows 11 for x,y,z reasons. I saw on internet that in order to go to windows 10 professional, I have to re-image the laptop. I am a bit technology savvy so if anybody could give the desired...

Single-instanced apps only allow one instance of the app running at a time. WinUI apps are multi-instanced by default. They allow you to launch multiple instances of the same app at one time, which we call multiple instances. However, you may implement single-instancing based on the use case of...

As web developers we spend a lot of time authoring our code in an editing environment. We then jump over to the browser to use the in-built developer tools to debug and tweak the product UI. The problem with this is that results of the tweaking and debugging aren’t reflected in the source code...

I am getting an access violation when iterating through SCSI HDD's. I'm sure I'm doing something that needs a minor tweak to get it to work properly. Anyone have any ideas on why I'm getting an access violation every time? HANDLE handle = CreateFile("\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive1", GENERIC_READ |...

Greetings, I need a Script that separates files According to destination folder name. Example if in the destination folder there is a folder named Paulo, it searches in the source folder where the files are located to separate files that have the name Paulo. Origin Paulo24567.mp4 Destiny...

Growing up in a rural village in India, Ashwini Doddalingappanavar was expected to follow the example of the women before her: stay close, get married and have children. She defied her community’s expectations to forge her own path. She learned how to use a mobile phone and access online maps...

Introduction Win32 APIs provide powerful functionality that let you get the most out of Windows in your applications. While these APIs are readily accessible to C and C++ developers, other languages like C# and Rust require wrappers or bindings in order to access these APIs. In C#, this is...

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Today, we are excited to announce that Microsoft Edge WebView2 for Win32 C/C++ is generally available and ready for use in production applications! With today’s announcement, we are officially releasing a forward-compatible WebView2 SDK along with production-ready WebView2 Runtime. These can be...

We are excited to announce two new online resources for developers using Windows: A new docs landing-page for developers building and deploying apps and systems running on non-Microsoft operating systems like Linux and Android A new GitHub issues repo for filing developer-oriented issues with...

XAML Islands was our first solution to enable developers to use UWP XAML inside their desktop (Win32) apps. Within a couple of months after the release of XAML Islands, behavioral insights and customer interviews raised some signals about how developers were using it. We discovered that a...

We are thrilled to announce today the next update to the Windows Community Toolkit, version 6.1. This release was made possible with help and contributions from across our developer community. While a ‘minor’ release, it is jam-packed with new controls, helpers, and improvements to the whole...

One hundred and thirteen years ago in New York, a girl was born into a generation where the average woman was more likely to perfect a signature pie recipe than solve a pi-based equation. Pushing against expectations, this girl became one of the pre-eminent technologists of our times and made it...