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Last month, we provided an overview of the Desktop Bridge in this blog post. We are excited to announce that since then we’ve released a new version of the desktop app converter, adding support for great new features and fixing several issues to provide a more stable environment. To learn more...

I have an issue that I hope someone can shed some light on, for me. I am creating a windows form application that I want to have backround music and sound effects incorporated into the program. I have the background music in my program, already, but, I want to add two sliders. I need the first...

In our first and second posts in this series, we looked at some of the APIs available in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) for using speech as an input and output mechanism within your application. We’re going to close off the series with this article by broadening our scope and looking at...

For those of you Surface fans out there who love to use your Surface in airport lobbies, cafés and anywhere in between, you know how great Surface is for people on-the-go. But when you come back to your home or work office, many of us want to easily connect to our monitors, external mice and...

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At Build 2016, we showed you how to use the Desktop App Converter to bring your existing desktop applications to the universal .appx packaging format as a first step to bringing your application to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Once on UWP, your apps are easier for users to manage and...

Chakra, the recently open-sourced JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows applications, has been pushing the leading edge of ECMAScript language support. Most of ES2015 (aka ES6) language support is already available in Edge, and last week’s Windows Insider Preview...

Link Removed If design can be said to have one big secret, something that makes designers what they are and distinguishes them from coders, it is sketching. At the same time, it is an easy skill to learn—though not to master—and you have probably been doing it all of your life without realizing...

As developers, we adapt as technologies move from the realm of Science Fiction into readily available SDKs. That’s certainly, or perhaps especially, true for speech technologies. In the past 5 years, devices have become more personal and demanding of new forms of interaction. In Windows 10...

Starting with the most recent Windows Insider Preview release (build 14.14342), Web Notifications are enabled by default in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs and tablets. This feature will be available to all Microsoft Edge customers in EdgeHTML 14, coming this summer with the Windows 10...

Microsoft has pulled the FM Radio app from its current Windows 10 Mobile Development Branch builds with no plans to bring it back in the future. read more Continue reading...

Link Removed is all about making it as easy as possible to build apps for Windows. The online tool helps you build apps with no coding required, so you can either start your project there and extend it in Visual Studio, or you can create and build the app completely in the tool. Today, we want...

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I develop at home programs for use at work. At work the pc's get data from the server \\server\data\something I want to run programs at home and have a drive or directory on my HDrive such that when program asks for file from \\server\data\something then the local folder is accessed I do not...

Hello, i dont know how to explain this but i will give it a try... when i resize my browser windows (ff, chrome, ie) the content in it will not resize automatically untill i have released the mouse button. I am developing a web site and trying to do responsive design and therefor i would like...

The Microsoft Visio 2016 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains the latest documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools that you need to develop custom solutions for Visio 2016. Link Removed

This morning, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced Link Removed of their new board—the Raspberry Pi 3. We’re excited to have Windows 10 support the new board via a new Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview update available for download today. The new Raspberry Pi 3 board is available now in the...

I have an inventory spreadsheet that is excel based and written in with VBA that want to make a standalone executable. The spreadsheet uses userforms for input and then transfers the input data to a diaphragm/floor plan, indicating what is in what room. I would like suggestions on what...

Я учусь писать драйверы для книги Солдатов. Я получил странные ошибки. Как писать драйверы правильно?

Hello, I'm new here, I'm wondering how I can integrate software in the Windows. For example, if I want to add an item to the context menu, in the explorer window, to send a file to an OLD folder. So, after click in «Send to Old» it would create a folder «yyyy-MM-dd - Old» in the same path of...