As a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app developer, if you are trying to communicate over HTTP with a web service or any server endpoint, you have multiple API choices. Two of the most used and recommended APIs for implementing the HTTP client role in a managed UWP app are...
The .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC Multi-Targeting Pack is a package that enables developers to build applications targeting the .NET Framework 4.6.1 using either Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2012 or third party IDEs. You need to download and install the .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC...
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.
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What is AllSeen?
The AllSeen Alliance is an organization that runs collaborative projects such as AllJoyn. AllJoyn is a technology aimed at enabling the Internet of Things (IoT) by defining a common language between devices and protocols. What makes AllJoyn interesting is the fact that it...
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The .NET Framework 4.6 Targeting Pack is a package that enables developers to build applications targeting the .NET Framework 4.6 using either Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2012 or third party IDEs. You need to download and install the .NET Framework 4.6 prior to installing the targeting...
Recently, we released a new feature that provides app usage information to developers in Dev Center.
This feature is included in all new Windows 10 (UWP) package submissions and allows developers to view app usage statistics, including user sessions, active users, session length, page views...
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We’ve been talking about Windows 10 for over a year now and today we started our next chapter, with new devices designed for Windows 10.
Today I stood on stage in NYC along with members of my team and had the honor of unveiling a new era of Windows 10 devices from Microsoft. We introduced new...
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We're back with a Theme Week, this time focusing on... wait for it... Windows 10 (Okay, I had a number of Win10 posts in the queue, so thought this a good means to get them out. :)
Visual Studio Project Templates are great tools to help you kick off a new project quickly. They can help scaffold...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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There are many ways to spin a cube and in today's episode we're coming from a different... angle =P. Cooper Partin from the Windows Graphics team is joining to tell us about his work on the ANGLE project to enable OpenGL ES 2.0 support in Windows Store, Phone and Universal Windows apps. ANGLE is...
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Here are a select 23 episodes and posts from our awesome content authors...
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CodeChat 035 - Node Chakra
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Take a look at how Windows 10 brings a single platform experience to many different devices and how Windows tooling and .NET Native provide developers with a great opportunity to create amazing apps.
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Link Removedrecently posted this great .NET Analyzer round-up. A few I've seen and highlighted but a couple I'd not, which makes his post one of my favorite kinds... :)
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