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  1. Announcing support for Pen with Windows Application Driver v1.1 – Preview available now

    Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) is continuing Microsoft’s investment in UI test automation tools for Windows 10, and now, we’re excited to announce the next release of WinAppDriver—version 1.1! A preview is available today— bringing support for Pen automation. The full v1.1 release is...
  2. March 30, 2018 - Forum Update!

    Hello! Well, it has been quite some time since I have followed up here to discuss with you what is going on with the forum. Today, we have introduced some new features, for the first time in awhile: You can now deactivate your account or reactivate it at any time. You can now change the color...
  3. VIDEO Bitcoin BEAR Market, SEC, New China Ban, McAfee, Stock crash, Bitcoin adoption, GitHub

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  4. Windows Template Studio 1.5 released

    We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.5. In this release, we finalized our work for localization, added in some new features, and started work on a bunch of new features and pages. What’s new: Full list of adjustments in the 1.5 release, head over to WTS’s Github...
  5. Extend your desktop application with Windows 10 features using the new Visual Studio Application Packaging Project

    Visual Studio 2017 15.4 introduced the new Windows Application Packaging project to help you modernizing your application by using the new Windows 10 App Deployment Stack. We talked about it in our previous post: Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 makes it easy to modernize your app and make it store...
  6. VIDEO How to distribute your existing Desktop Applications via Windows Store to Windows 10 PCs –...

    Overview Windows 10 S is a specific configuration of Windows 10 Pro that offers a familiar, productive Windows experience that’s streamlined for security and performance. By exclusively using apps in the Windows Store and ensuring that you browse safely with Microsoft Edge, Windows 10 S keeps...
  7. Introducing XAML Standard and .NET Standard 2.0

    XAML Standard We are pleased to announce XAML Standard, which is a standards-based effort to unify XAML dialects across XAML based technologies such as UWP and Xamarin.Forms. XAML Standard is a specification that defines a standard XAML vocabulary. With that vocabulary, frameworks that...
  8. Announcing Windows Template Studio

    Today, we are pleased to announce the next evolution in your File → New Universal Windows Platform app in Visual Studio – Windows Template Studio. Windows Template Studio addresses a top community ask in our developer survey to make it easier and provide guidance to create new projects that...
  9. How the UWP Community Toolkit helps Windows developers easily create well-designed and...

    In August 2016, we introduced the open-source UWP Community Toolkit. It simplifies app development and enables developers to collaborate and contribute new capabilities on top of the Windows SDK for Windows 10. Developers can leverage the UWP Community Toolkit to build UWP apps for any Windows...
  10. Building the Terminator Vision HUD in HoloLens

    Link Removed James Cameron’s 1984 film The Terminator introduced many science-fiction idioms we now take for granted. One of the most persistent is the thermal head-up-display (HUD) shot that allows the audience to see the world through the eyes of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 character. In...
  11. SHA-1 Collisions Research

    Today, a group of eight researchers from across the security industry released a research report on SHA-1 that demonstrates for the first time, a “hash collision” for the full SHA-1 hash algorithm (called “SHAttered”). This is a significant step toward understanding this type of security issue...
  12. Real-Time Communications on the Universal Windows Platform with WebRTC and ORTC

    Readers of this blog interested in Real-Time Communications are probably familiar with Google’s WebRTC project. From the WebRTC site: “WebRTC is a free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple APIs. The WebRTC...
  13. How-to: Spectator View, a new tool to help others see what you see in HoloLens

    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...
  14. Adding UWP features to your existing PC software

    With last summer’s release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and the announcement of the Windows Store supporting apps built with the Desktop Bridge technology, we want to share more details and sample code on how to further enhance and extend your PC software on Windows 10. In addition to...
  15. New Year, New Dev: Developing your idea into a UWP app

    In the last post, we introduced you to a video series from Bob Tabor that teaches the fundamentals of C#. In this post, you’ll learn how to put those new (or re-sharpened) C# skills to use as we explore UWP (Universal Windows Platform) development in the Windows 10 Development for Absolute...
  16. 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...
  17. Kinect demo code and new driver for UWP now available

    Here’s a little memory test: Do you recall this blog, which posted back in May and promised to soon begin integrating Kinect for Windows into the Universal Windows Platform? Of course you do! Now we are pleased to announce two important developments in the quest to make Kinect functionality...
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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...