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  1. VIDEO Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v7.0

    After many months of invigorating the Windows Community Toolkit with a multitude of improvements and features; we are happy to announce version 7.0 is available today! Made possible again with the support and contributions of our developer community.πŸŽ‰ If you are new to the Toolkit, the Windows...
  2. XAML Islands – A deep dive – Part 2

    Welcome to the 2nd post of our Xaml Islands deep dive adventure! On the first blog post, we talked a little bit about the history of this amazing feature, how the Xaml Islands infrastructure works and how to use it, and also a little bit of how you can leverage binding in your Island controls...
  3. XAML Islands – A deep dive – Part 1

    XAML Islands is a technology that enables Windows developers to use new pieces of UI from the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) on their existing Win32 Applications, including Windows Forms and WPF technologies. This allows them to gradually modernize their apps at their own pace, making use of...
  4. Accessibility and your app design

    Link Removed is about making your app usable to the largest possible audience. For some apps, accessibility is required by law. For others, it’s part of the service you are offering to a specific audience and a way to make your app more generally appealing. Choosing to incorporate accessibility...
  5. Visual Studio 2013 SDK Samples Released

    For the past few months we've been highlighting projects and examples that extend Visual Studio in one way or another. Well today's post is the "Mother of all Visual Studio Extensibility Post." Why? When the examples come from the Visual Studio Product Team itself, that's hard to beat... :)...