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Hello, I have a very important application that I would like to use on my new Windows 10 desktop. I have already reached out to Microsoft for support and they performed a remote session with no luck. They told me that the application needs to be updated to use on Windows 10 and to contact the...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 18290 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18290 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18272 (19H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. To help Insiders get started with the latest 19H1 builds, we’re also making the ISOs for Build 18272 available today by Link Removed. (It make take a little bit for...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 17749 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17749 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17723 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring and Build 18204 (19H1) to Windows Insiders who have opted in to Skip Ahead. Going forward, RS5 builds will come from the RS5_RELEASE branch. For Insiders who chose...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed. The Preview SDK Build 17095 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For feedback and updates to the...

Today, we are pleased to announce the next evolution in your File → New Universal Windows Platform app in Visual Studio – Windows Template Studio. Windows Template Studio addresses a top community ask in our developer survey to make it easier and provide guidance to create new projects that...

Revision Note: V1.0 (May 9, 2017): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about vulnerabilities in the public .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications...

Back in October, Satya, Terry and Panos introduced the Windows 10 Creators Update. They showed some of the new features and announced some amazing new additions to our Surface family of devices. Since then, my team has been working to complete the platform work for the Creators Update to deliver...

Project Rome Overview Project Rome is a platform for creating experiences that transcend a single device and driving up user engagement – empowering a developer to create human-centric scenarios that move with the user and blur the lines between their devices regardless of form factor or...

Hi This is not a Piracy issue. We use a Legacy software a 16 years old database that is no longer available and not made by MS, on Win XP We use an 'add-on' with the database that was $20 sadly the developer of the 'add-on' has passed away about 4 years ago and the business no longer exists...

Overview Today we live in a multi-device world, and the way we use them spans different platforms and form factors: We read the morning news on our tablets, check email during the morning commute on our phones and at work on our desktop PCs. And at night, we watch movies on our home media...

Vardan Meliksetyan sent me an email about this cool Unity game that his company recently released. Who doesn't like a good game of bowling, and with this you don't have to worry about the weird shoes! Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Interesting Bowling game with Microsoft Kinect V2...

We got some very cool Kinect Developer News this week. Below is the email, in full, which introduces the Kinect developer preview for Windows 10, which includes Windows Hello support. To show this off, Friend of the Gallery, Mike Taulty, published a great detailed description and post. Make...

This preview ships with new templates, Outlook Add-in with Commands and SharePoint 2016 Solutions. Link Removed

There you are, opening a new open source project and there's a file in the project that you can't edit or that the edit experience isn't great. Then you remember, "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to install an Extension to edit that..." Link Removed must have run into that more times than he can count...

In Windows 10, we've made it exceedingly easy to add "Drag and Drop" functionality to your UWP application. As you're probably aware, "drag and drop" is by no means a new feature for Windows applications. For a very long time, the notion for the user to able to move objects within a single...

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...

This week, Shen and I took a look at how you can very easily use the new XAML SplitView control to build an experience in your UWP application that automatically _adapts_ based on the current size of your application. As you may imagine, this is one of the foundational building blocks we...

It's getting harder and harder to select just a few of the videos posted in the previous week, there's just so much great content! So, while I try to keep this lists under control, here are a select 31 shows, episodes and posts from last week... Link Removed The Truth About Microsoft Azure...