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Reposted with permission from Link Removed Introduction: Building the best place… to build At GDC Europe 2016, the Microsoft developer platform team is excited to showcase the technologies we’ve been working on to make both game development and gaming better on Windows 10. Not only are we...

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...

The Windows platform targets all kinds of devices: desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, HoloLens, IoT and Xbox. As a developer you want your users to have a great user experience with your app across the entire breadth of devices it is available on. Each of these devices has unique capabilities...

Editor’s Note – this post was originally posted on Medium and has been updated to reflect the latest information. Let’s talk about the progress of web apps. No, that’s not an autocorrect mistake from “progressive web apps” — let’s take a look at how the web has progressed from “a large...

Recently, we introduced Microsoft Edge’s new accessibility architecture, which inherently supports modern web standards, and provides a foundation to make the web platform more accessible than ever. To build a comprehensive ecosystem across all products and users of every ability, assistive...

Slow pages lose users: research from Bing and Google indicates that delays as small as half a second can impact business metrics. To build fast sites, developers need powerful tools to analyze the performance of their sites and debug issues. Link Removed are a great start and the primary tools...

Link Removed SQLite version 3.11.2 is shipping with the Windows 10 Anniversary edition as part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and is recommended for all UWP local data storage needs. This represents the first time an open source, third-party library, such as SQLite, has shipped as part...

The Windows Mobile 6.5.3 DTK provides documentation, sample code, header and library files, emulator images and tools you can use with Visual Studio to build applications for Windows Mobile 6.5 and 6.5.3. Link Removed

Windows 10 comes on a variety of form factors, which means so do your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. It’s important to make sure that your app looks great on whatever device the users are tapping, typing, or clicking on—even when it’s not open. One of the core experiences on Windows are...

Visual Studio Dev Essentials is a new free developer offering from Microsoft. A free membership to this program gives you access to a range of benefits including developer tools and services, training and support. This video provides an overview of some key benefits, including Visual Studio...

In June we introduced preview support for asm.js, which is now supported by default in Microsoft Edge starting with Microsoft EdgeHTML 13.10532. With this change, Hosted Web Applications and the WebView in any Universal Windows Application can now benefit from asm-optimized code as well. Asm.js...

Notifications Visualizer is a Link Removed that helps developers design Link Removed. The app provides instant visual previews of your tile while editing, similar to Visual Studio’s XAML editor/design view. The app also checks for errors, ensuring you create a valid tile payload. Below is a...

The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC is a highly compatible, in-place update to the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6. The offline package can be used in situations where the...

Sample databases and scripts for SQL Server 2016 CTP3. Link Removed

Microsoft Edge introduces great new improvements to F12 developer tools, including some of your most requested features from Link Removed. Explore new features in the DOM Explorer, Console, Debugger, Network, Performance, Memory, Emulation, and a new Experiments tool, that allows you to try out...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10563), to be used in conjunction with Link Removed(Build 10565). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a production environment. Please only install the SDK on your test...

The Link Removed (build 10547) contains a new set of features now available for Insiders to test – we encourage you to check out our Link Removed to see what’s new and try out the build for yourself via the Link Removed. Since Microsoft Edge is designed to be an evergreen browser, regularly...

One of the questions I hear allot is how do you convert your Windows phone 8/8.1 Silverlight app into a Windows 10 UWP app? Is there a simple converter? No. But one is the works! Mobilize.NET, the company that brought us the cool WinForm to Web App product, WebMAP2 have just released a new...

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...

We've highlighted the Kinect Studio a number of times... Kinect for Windows v2 and the Kinect Studio Kinect Studio and a Harmonica Player Custom Gestures, Kinect for Windows v2 and the Visual Gesture Builder Bruno shows us how to use the Kinect Studio Kinect Studio 101 ...but it's been over...