Windows 11 gives you more than one way to open the Settings app — and knowing the right method for the moment can save minutes or avert a full restart when you’re troubleshooting. The platform exposes the app everywhere: Start, Taskbar, Quick Settings, File Explorer, Run and command-line tools...
Microsoft’s PowerToys 0.93 delivered a much-needed Settings dashboard overhaul and major Command Palette performance wins, but the suite still lacks a unified Settings search—and community work tracked on GitHub plus Microsoft’s own roadmap notes indicate a settings search bar is targeted for...
Microsoft is testing a new continuity trick in Windows 11 that lets you pick up certain Android activities on your PC—starting with Spotify—via a taskbar alert that says “Resume from your phone” and a one‑click “Continue on this PC” action. The rollout has begun for Windows Insiders in the Dev...
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Great applications help users do great things — enabling a wide range of creative, productivity and entertainment scenarios. Returning to activities can be a challenge, especially when a person wants to continue those activities across multiple devices. By writing User Activities, application...
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We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.3.
In this release, we added in app scheme launch, finalized our work for localization, massive improvements in accessibility and started our work for Visual Basic support.
What’s new:
For a full list of adjustments in the 1.3...
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Overview
Web-to-app linking allows you to drive user engagement by associating your app with a website. When users open a link to your website, instead of opening the browser, your app is launched. If your app is not installed, your website is opened in the browser as usual. By implementing...
With Windows 10, the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) provides a number of improvements to better support sharing data and files across Windows apps.
Cross-app communication in Windows 10
Windows 10 introduces some new and improved ways to ease communication between apps on the same device...
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You can learn all about the next release of Windows Phone, code named "Mango" in Link Removed video- this video is strictly for the devs. Matt Bencke gave us all the 411 on what is to be expected in the Developer Tools that were released TODAY.
Make sure to Link Removed and start developing...