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  1. Early preview of Visual Studio support for Windows 10 on ARM development

    Today, we are pleased to announce that Visual Studio 15.8 Preview 1 contains an early preview of the SDK and tools to allow you to create your own 64-bit ARM (ARM64) apps. These tools answer the requests of many eager developers, and the development made possible with these tools represents the...
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    Windows 7 I need help windows crashing but not blue screen

    I think errors like this should appear as a blue screen right? This happens during playing games high performance or not this happens after a few minutes of game play idk why, I've tried the startup program solution but it didn't fix this error, the game just freezes and then after waiting for...
  3. Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17125

    Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 17125 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17125 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...
  4. Windows 10 Unexpected BSOD resulted in crash dumps

    Hello everyone, I have recently experienced a large number of BSODs on a Samsung notebook running Windows 10. I cannot specify the cause of the problem, but the most recent one had Firefox as the ONLY "active" window. Tried using WINDBG, but have zero experience. Can anybody help?: -) I...
  5. Breaking on DOM Mutations in the Microsoft Edge DevTools

    Editor’s note: This continues the series we began last week, highlighting what’s new and improved in the Microsoft Edge DevTools with EdgeHTML 16. As the web platform evolves, the line between web and application developers continues to blur. It’s common now for a web site to be more like a web...
  6. VIDEO New DirectX 12 features in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

    We’ve come a long way since we launched DirectX 12 with Windows 10 on July 29, 2015. Since then, we’ve heard every bit of feedback and improved the API to enhance stability and offer more versatility. Today, developers using DirectX 12 can build games that have better graphics, run faster and...
  7. Minecraft: Education Edition reaches a milestone of two million users and releases new Hour...

    Three years ago, Minecraft became a part of the Microsoft family, and my team began our work to extend Minecraft’s potential in classrooms around the world. Flash forward to today – one year after the release of Minecraft: Education Edition – and I’m thrilled to share that we’re continuing to...
  8. Node-ChakraCore update from Node.js Interactive 2017

    Earlier this year, we shared an update on some key milestones achieved for Node-ChakraCore like cross-platform support, community participation for N-API, Node-ChakraCore on iOS and more. Today, as Node.js enthusiasts from all over the world gather in Vancouver, Canada for Node.js Interactive...
  9. How to Restart your App Programmatically

    For some apps (especially games) it is not uncommon for the app to get into a state where it needs to restart – perhaps after a license update, after installing downloadable content, its caches have become corrupt or unwieldy, or for any other reason where the app needs to refresh state from...
  10. Command-Line Activation of Universal Windows Apps

    As we continue to close the gap between Win32 and Universal Windows Apps, one of the features we’ve recently introduced is the ability to activate a UWA from a command line and pass the app arbitrary command-line arguments. This is available to Insiders from build 16226. This feature builds on...
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    Windows XP The application failed to initialize properly (0xc00000fd).

    Hi Everyone You may have already seen two previous threads from me about attempting to move a program from a Vista machine to an XP machine. I have now finally managed to get all the DLLs sorted out. The Ordinal 344 error was because I accidentally copied the wrong version of a DLL over...
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    Windows 10 Various BSoD with different errors

    Hello, Hello. I have a problem wih bluescreens. Short History: first I upgraded my windows 7 to windows 10 and got these bluescreens. So I decided to completly reinstall windows 10. Did not work with any form of backup, the windows install is completly fresh (or was about a month ago when I did...
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    Windows 10 BugCheck 9F / DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE /

    Hi, I did get a BSOD on my brand new laptop, whys that? Can someone please help me thanks in advance. Setup Lenovo Thinkpad T470s Samsung EVO 960 256GB NVMe drive 20GB DDR4 2133MHz Windows 10 Pro When did it happen? Can it bee reproduced? I did run Intel Burn test when the BSOD did happen on...
  14. Notes from the Node.js VM Summit

    The Chakra team was delighted to host the third Node.js VM Summit recently here at Microsoft. These meetings bring together JavaScript VM vendors, Node collaborators, and CTC members including participants from Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, nearForm, and NodeSource. This group is currently...
  15. Visual Studio 2017 – Now Ready for Your Windows Application Development Needs

    Visual Studio 2017 is the most powerful Universal Windows Platform development environment. It brings unparalleled productivity improvements, a streamlined acquisition experience and enhanced debugging tools for Universal Windows Platform developers. Try out Visual Studio 2017 today...
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    Windows 7 .NET program closes at startup: "Unhandled exception"

    When I start occasionally .NET programs the close immediately after start. Just a simple error box appears informing me that "xxxxxxprogram has stopped working". I installed .NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 and 4.6.2 here on 64bit Win 7. Not all .NET programs are affected. As an example one of the...
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    Windows 7 Unexpected BSOD results in minidump

    Hello, I have recently had a crash dump file appear in c:\windows\minidump I am uploading it here, for those who may wish to review it. However, I cannot specify what the cause of this problem may have been.
  18. Node-ChakraCore and VM Neutrality in Node.js

    Back when Node.js was launched, the device landscape was simpler, and using a single JavaScript VM helped provide Node.js the focus to grow rapidly. Today, there is a proliferation in the variety of device types, each with differing resource constraints. In this device context, we believe that...
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    Windows 7 Event 41 kernel power 63

    Hi, My computer freezes randomly. The error in event viewer is "event 41 kernel power 63". I had tried windbg. I am neither a developer, nor an expert. I am new to this forum. Below is the code generated from whatever little analysis I could do. I'd be grateful, if anyone can help me out.
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    Windows 7 The Curse of the Blue Screen of Death Office :)

    Ok, my coworker used to get blue screens quite frequently, even with computer swaps and window re-installs... ect. Went on for about a year, and they thought the figured out that it was his battery backup all this time. Well he has now moved offices and is having no problems what so ever :) I...