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  1. Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK Now Available! Windows Store Open for Submissions

    Today I’m pleased to announce that following the Windows 10 Anniversary Update we have released the Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK, build 14393 along with Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. The new SDK contains more than 2700 enhancements to the Universal Windows Platform allowing you to take...
  2. Imperia Online Brings MMO Strategy Gaming to Windows 10

    Link Removed Imperia Online, the massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy game, released a Windows Store version of their app in March and are currently working on a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) release. They started their company in 2005 with just a handful of passionate hobbyists in an...
  3. Using speech in your UWP apps: Look who’s talking

    In our first and second posts in this series, we looked at some of the APIs available in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) for using speech as an input and output mechanism within your application. We’re going to close off the series with this article by broadening our scope and looking at...
  4. Bringing Minecraft: Story Mode to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and Windows Store

    Link Removed Telltale Games has established itself as the master of the episodic adventure game with hits like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, Tales from the Borderlands and, most recently, Link Removed. These storytelling-centered games, in which player choices have...
  5. Introduction to Vulkan: High-Efficiency Graphics API for Modern GPUs

    Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms. Vulkan - Industry Forged Tech demos: Vulkan on Android Drivers: Nvidia Vulkan...
  6. Be a 3D Hero with UrhoSharp

    Last December Miguel de Icaza blogged about a cool, cross platform, light weight 3D game engine that's very C# and friendly... Link Removed [Post Copied in Full] Building 3D experiences and games using a high-level framework that works across all of the major platforms is now as easy as...
  7. Building a Simple App with the Windows Bridge for iOS

    Link Removed Welcome to the first in a series of hands-on blog posts for the Windows Bridge for iOS. The Windows Bridge for iOS is an open-source project that allows you to create Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that can run on Windows 10 devices using iOS APIs and Objective-C code...
  8. Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine to go open-source

    Today at JSConf US Last Call in Florida, we announced that we will open-source the core components of Chakra as ChakraCore, which will include all the key components of the JavaScript engine powering Microsoft Edge. We expect to open the ChakraCore repository on GitHub next month. Link Removed...
  9. How to publish your Unity game as a UWP app

    Unity is a fantastic utility for creating graphically-rich high-performance games and apps. Using the editor, you can quickly create 2D and 3D worlds, and define interactions, game logic and physics rules in easy-to-understand C# scripts. Apps created by Unity run on multiple platforms...
  10. Demystifying HttpClient APIs in the Universal Windows Platform

    As a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app developer, if you are trying to communicate over HTTP with a web service or any server endpoint, you have multiple API choices. Two of the most used and recommended APIs for implementing the HTTP client role in a managed UWP app are...
  11. Ionic apps on Windows 10

    With Hosted Web Apps, you are able to use Ionic, a simple drag & drop interface tool, for building native UWP apps for Windows 10 with a click of the mouse. This short video illustrates how to take your Ionic app and deploy it across Windows and other supported platforms. For more information...
  12. Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders

    Mouse without Borders is a product that makes you the captain of your computer fleet by allowing you to control up to four computers from a single mouse and keyboard. This means that with Mouse without Borders you can copy text or drag and drop files across computers. Link Removed
  13. Publishing a UWP Web App on a Mac using ManifoldJS

    ManifoldJS, the tool that turns your web apps into store apps, just got better. With version 0.4.0 you can now build and submit Windows 10 apps from any platform! This short video walks you through the process of building, packaging and submitting a Windows 10 app from your Mac. Link Removed...
  14. End of Summer Fun with FunSharp

    With summer coming to an end it's not too early to start queuing up projects for the kids, young and old, for Thanksgiving and Winter break. :) Phillip Trelford recently released a cool new library that is meant to help speed and simplify creating graphic apps and games. a library that is just...
  15. Unity Support for Windows 10

    Today, Link Removedwhich includes support for Windows 10 and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). With UWP support in Unity 5.2, developers can build a single game for Windows 10 that targets multiple devices ranging from phones to tablets to PCs to Xbox. This means that multiple screen sizes...
  16. Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta Gets an Update

    Link Removed got an update today bringing you exciting new features. In Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta build anything from makeshift shelters to the grandest of castles! Create and explore your very own world where the only limit is what you can imagine- just be sure to build a shelter...
  17. Going Native 41: OpenGLES on Windows with ANGLE | C9::GoingNative

    There are many ways to spin a cube and in today's episode we're coming from a different... angle =P. Cooper Partin from the Windows Graphics team is joining to tell us about his work on the ANGLE project to enable OpenGL ES 2.0 support in Windows Store, Phone and Universal Windows apps. ANGLE is...
  18. The Universal Windows Platform | Developer’s Guide to Windows 10

    Take a look at how Windows 10 brings a single platform experience to many different devices and how Windows tooling and .NET Native provide developers with a great opportunity to create amazing apps. Link Removed Continue reading...
  19. Microsoft Team Explorer Everywhere 2015

    Team Explorer Everywhere includes the Eclipse plug-in and the cross-platform, command-line client for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and Visual Studio Online. Link Removed
  20. Introduction to UWP and device families

    Windows 10 introduces the Universal Windows Platform, and with it a new way to partition the API surface. APIs are grouped into "device families", and that means you can support a huge range of devices with just one app. Even better, you can still light up the unique features of each of those...