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  1. 5 ways Surface Dock makes your Surface even more awesome

    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...
  2. Hotfix rollup 3154528 for the .NET Framework 4.6 and 4.6.1 in Windows

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  3. Bringing your existing desktop apps to UWP

    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...
  4. Previewing ES6 Modules and more from ES2015, ES2016 and beyond

    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...
  5. Sketching your app design

    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...
  6. Using speech in your UWP apps: It’s good to talk

    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...
  7. Web Notifications in Microsoft Edge

    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...
  8. Alternative FM Radio Apps for Windows 10 Mobile

    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...
  9. Kickstart UWP app creation with Windows App Studio’s open source UWP libraries and Samples App

    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...
  10. Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows

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    Windows 7 Address local drive as if it was a network drive

    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...
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    Windows 8 Resizing browser, responsive web design

    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...
  13. Visio 2016 SDK

    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
  14. Windows 10 IoT Core support for Raspberry Pi 3

    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...
  15. Windows 7 Need know where to start and with what language for a standalone windows program

    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...
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    Windows XP I am learning to write drivers for the book Soldatov. I got strange errors. How to write drivers r

    Я учусь писать драйверы для книги Солдатов. Я получил странные ошибки. Как писать драйверы правильно?
  17. Windows 10 How to integrate software in the windows?

    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...
  18. Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows

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  19. 3137909 - Vulnerabilities in ASP.NET Templates Could Allow Tampering - Version: 1.1

    Revision Note: V1.1 (February 10, 2016): Advisory updated to include download information for Microsoft ASP.NET Web Frameworks, and Tools and Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools. This is an informational change only. Summary: Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about...
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    Windows 7 How Do I Compile From Source in Windows 7?

    I am trying use a program At the bottom it says "compile from source", but I have no idea how to do that. Can someone please explain it to me step by step. What programs I need to install and everything I need to do.