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To wrap up the “New Year, New Dev” blog series, we’ll go into using Windows 10 IoT Core and show how easy it is to start developing applications to deploy on IoT devices such as the Raspberry Pi 3. If you haven’t had a chance to read the first two posts in this series, you can find them here...

Hello everyone! I wanted to take a quick moment to announce an exciting new tool we have developed to help bring to life the apps and experiences you have created for Microsoft HoloLens. Since our launch last year, one of the pieces of feedback we have heard from many folks is, “How can I...

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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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...

Further simplifying servicing models for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 In our announcement earlier in May, we introduced a Convenience Rollup update for Windows 7 SP1 and a shift to monthly rollups of non-security updates for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1. Based on your feedback, today we’re...

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Hi everyone, I'm looking for proper, thorough documentation of Windows 10 services. Many websites only copy the description provided by Services.msc; I'm looking for (much) more than that. I want to be able to judge for myself whether it's safe to stop a service without relying on the...

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Today we’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing part of the Microsoft Edge WebGL renderer – specifically, the GLSL to HLSL transpiler. We hope that the source code is useful for everybody working on similar WebGL projects, and that this will help performance, correctness and...

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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...

Hi Thought I'd try to make a tutorial! Here's a windows tool that you can use to find another windows tool that no one uses and I don't know why. I's called PSR and I used it to find the reliability monitor that no one uses either. PSR creates a Zip file that will show you step by step how to...

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

The Windows Mobile 6.5.3 DTK provides documentation, sample code, header and library files, emulator images and tools you can use with Visual Studio to build applications for Windows Mobile 6.5 and 6.5.3. Link Removed

AdlCopy is a command-line tool that allows you to copy data from Azure Storage Containers or Blobs into Azure Data Lake Store. More details are available in documentation on Azure.microsoft.com under Analytics -> Azure Data Lake Store. Link Removed

This download includes an self-extracting EXE package that contains Visual Studio and .NET Framework documentation—overviews, how-to articles, API reference pages, sample code, and more—to help you in your development efforts. All of the documentation in the package is also available online. For...

Documentation and Administrative Template Files needed to deploy the OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync client to your organization Link Removed