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Microsoft's PowerToys team has quietly moved from damage control to damage limitation: after a widely noticed rollout introduced disruptive behavior in several utilities, the project has issued follow-up patches that restore predictable behavior for end users and harden a few of the suite's more...

Microsoft pushed a corrective update to PowerToys this cycle, and while the hotfixes patch the most disruptive regressions from the recent “big” releases, the episode crystallizes what happens when a deeply integrated, community-driven utility adds system‑level automation: small code changes can...

Microsoft’s recent theme‑switching uproar boiled down to an experimental PowerToys feature that was accidentally turned on for many users — not a Windows 11 system bug — and a quick hotfix in PowerToys 0.95.1 corrected the behavior while raising broader questions about defaults, update paths...

Microsoft’s quick follow-up release to PowerToys 0.95.0—version 0.95.1—finally puts an end to the chaotic, involuntary Light/Dark theme flips that surprised many users after the initial rollout, but the episode leaves useful lessons about defaults, update paths, and user trust for both Microsoft...

Microsoft's latest PowerToys hotfix, version 0.95.1, arrives as a focused, corrective release that patches a high-profile theme-switching regression introduced with the 0.95 cycle while also addressing stability and installer concerns across several modules. The update zeroes in on the new Light...

Microsoft’s PowerToys has quietly shipped a targeted hotfix — version 0.95.1 — that addresses the most abrasive complaints since the 0.95 release, most notably the Light Switch behavior that was unintentionally flipping users’ themes, along with a clutch of stability and installer improvements...

Windows 11 machines suddenly flipping between Light and Dark themes after recent updates have a clear, identifiable culprit: the new Light Switch module introduced in PowerToys v0.95, and an apparent rollout bug that left the scheduler enabled or reasserting control on many systems. The problem...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview builds extend the system-wide Dark theme into long-neglected corners of File Explorer and several legacy dialogs, eliminating many of the jarring white “flash” moments that have plagued Dark mode users and delivering a tangible quality‑of‑life polish ahead of...

Microsoft has quietly closed a long-standing Windows convenience gap by adding Light Switch to PowerToys — a new, first‑party utility that can automatically switch Windows 11 between light and dark modes on a schedule or at local sunrise and sunset, with per‑surface controls, configurable...

PowerToys' new 0.95 release finally delivers one of Windows 11’s most-requested conveniences: an automated light/dark theme scheduler called Light Switch, along with a slate of performance and usability fixes that make PowerToys feel more like a polished power-user toolkit than a collection of...

Microsoft’s PowerToys is about to fill a longstanding personalization gap in Windows 11 by adding an official, first‑party module to automatically switch between Light and Dark themes on a schedule — a small feature with outsized user demand and a few important caveats to understand. Background...

Is LightSwitch Useless? I have used it to create a GUI to my SQL AZURE database, but there is no generated C# code go look at. Without this, I cannot easily customize what I want to do. If you look at the Solution Explorer, you will not find any code to step into. So I do not know how...

In this video, I interview a couple of LightSwitch team members, Mike Droney (Tester) and Sheel Shaw (PM), as they walk me through a real application that was built for our Admins in order to track hardware assets across the developer division. Mike and Sheel talk about the requirement gathering...

This Week on Channel 9, Dan Fernandez is joined by Clint Rutkas to discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:35] Somasegar: Link Removed including VS 2010 Service Pack 1, TFS-Project Server Integration Feature Pack, Load Test Feature Pack, and LightSwitch Beta 2 [01:01] Jason...

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Link RemovedThis week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover the week's top developer news, including: MSDN - Link Removed now available Dallas Blog - Link Removed, includes basic auth, OData, and new content providers, via littleguru Laura Foy - Brandon Watson discusses Windows Phone...

For all of you .NET developers out there be prepared to be absolutely stunned! This is an amazing new Microsoft technology to be in Beta soon. This will change the way us developers interact with different data sources and design applications. This is the fastest RAD (Rapid Application...