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    Announcing “UWPDesktop” NuGet Package Version 14393

    The UWPDesktop NuGet package is here to improve the developer experience with Visual Studio when walking along the Desktop Bridge. The Desktop Bridge allows you to call UWP APIs directly from your WinForms, WPF or VB application. You can use APIs such as Live tiles, notifications, App Services...
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    ICYMI – What happened over vacation?

    We hope everyone had a great vacation and a very happy New Year! We’re excited to be back and while we have a few exciting updates on the way, here are a few things that you might have missed. Patterns & Controls Tutorials Fly out menus. Dialogue boxes. Buttons. Check, check and check. Learn...
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    Windows Bridge for iOS: Customizing the Surface Dial Experience

    In part one of the Windows Bridge for iOS series, we created a simple to-do list app in Xcode and used the iOS bridge to bring it over to Windows 10. In part two of the series, we went on a tour of Visual Studio for iOS developers. In part three, we used the Windows Bridge for iOS to convert an...
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    UWP Experiences – App Samples

    The UWP App Experiences are beautiful, cross-device, feature-rich and functional app samples built to demonstrate realistic app scenarios on the UWP platform across PC, Tablet, Xbox and more. Besides being open source on GitHub, each sample is accompanied by at least one blog post and short...
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    VIDEO A New Input Paradigm in Windows – The Surface Dial

    With the debut of Windows Ink in the Windows Anniversary Update, we introduced simultaneous pen and touch as the dawn of a revolutionary change in interacting with Windows. In our blog post, we discuss how you can use the APIs that you are already familiar with for touch to handle both touch and...
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    Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 14965 Released

    Today, we released a new Windows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 14965 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a production environment. Please only install the SDK on your test machine. The Preview SDK Build...
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    Windows Application Driver for PC integrates with Appium

    The most time consuming and expensive part of developing an app is often the testing phase. Manually testing an app on hundreds of different devices is impractical, and existing automation solutions run into a number of platform and tooling limitations. Appium is designed to simplify testing by...
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    VIDEO The “Internet of Stranger Things” Wall, Part 3 – Voice Recognition and Intelligence

    Overview I called this project the “Internet of Stranger Things,” but so far, there hasn’t been an internet piece. In addition, there really hasn’t been anything that couldn’t be easily accomplished on an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi. I wanted this demo to have more moving parts to improve the...
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    Windows 7 Registering every *.DLL required? or possible?

    Assume I have (under 64bit Win 7) a big program installation with one main *.exe file and lots of *.dlls. It seems to me that some but not all of these *.dlls need a registration (by regsvr32) which is done typically at installation time. Some other *.dlls seem to need NO such registration but...
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    VersionNT value for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016

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    New and updated Microsoft IoT Kits

    Earlier this month, we released to customers around the world a new Windows Insider version of Windows 10 IoT Core that supports the brand new Intel® Joule™. We’ve been working hard on Windows 10 IoT Core, we’re proud of the quality and capability of IoT Core Insider releases and we’re humbled...
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    How to develop augmented reality apps with Vuforia for Windows 10

    Augmented Reality is a way to connect virtual objects with the real world, making it possible to naturally interact with them by use of mobile devices like phones, tablets or new mixed reality devices like HoloLens. Vuforia is one of the most popular Augmented Reality platforms for developers...
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    Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.1

    Today we are releasing the first update to the UWP Community Toolkit. To see the updates, first: Get started with UWP Community Toolkit 1.1 Install the Link Removed directly from the Windows Store Read the documentation In under a month since the first release, we are humbled by the positive...
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    UWP Hosted Web App on Xbox One (App Dev on Xbox series)

    For the fourth installment in the series, we are open sourcing yet another sample app: South Ridge Video, an open source video app developed as a hosted web application built with React.js and hosted on a web server. South Ridge can easily be converted to a UWP application that takes advantage...
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    Background Audio and Cross Platform Development with Xamarin (App Dev on Xbox series)

    We are back with yet another app, Backdrop, an open source sample media app developed to showcase a cross-device music experience. In this blog post, we will dive deep into the new background model in the Universal Windows Platform, and specifically focus on how to enable your application to...
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    Animations with the Visual Layer

    When the layout of your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app changes, there is often a slight pause as your app rearranges content to fit the new window size or orientation. Composition APIs let you create smooth-as-butter animations between these states so your layout changes won’t jar your...
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    Introducing Arduino Wiring on Windows 10 IoT Core

    Developers targeting Windows 10 IoT Core can use a programming language of their choice. Today, this includes C#, C++, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Link Removed and Node.js, but we’re not stopping there. Arduino Wiring is the latest addition to IoT Core. Arduino is one of the most popular...
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    Windows 10 IoT Core Blockly

    In this blog post you’ll learn about IoT Core Blockly, a new UWP application that allows you to program a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 and a Link Removed using a “block” editor from your browser: Link Removed You create a program with interlocking blocks, which will run on the Raspberry Pi. For...
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    Beautiful apps made possible and easy with Windows.UI

    If you are into creating sweet UI, then you’re definitely going to want to dig into the new Visual Layer with Windows.UI.Composition. The Windows.UI.Composition namespace allows Universal Windows Platform (UWP) developers to use a new Visual Layer that will get them closer to the metal...
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    Introducing the UWP Community Toolkit

    Recently, we released the Windows Anniversary Update and a new Windows Software Developer Kit (SDK) for Windows 10 containing tools, app templates, platform controls, Windows Runtime APIs, emulators and much more, to help create innovative and compelling Universal Windows apps. Today, we are...
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