Microsoft’s release of a Windows SDK for Facebook — a native, open-source library that brings full Facebook login, Graph API access, feeds, photo uploads and Like functionality into Universal Windows apps — marks a deliberate push to make Windows a more attractive, social-first platform for...
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facebook
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hololens
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oauth
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sdk
sdk maintenance
social login
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windows
windows 10
windows phone
windows sdk for facebook
xbox
Microsoft's recent push to modernize how Windows 11 drivers are built, packaged, published, and maintained represents one of the most consequential shifts in the Windows hardware ecosystem in years — driven by security, performance, and the realities of an increasingly diverse device landscape...
The Model Context Protocol (MCP), developed by Anthropic, has emerged as a pivotal open standard facilitating seamless integration between Large Language Models (LLMs) and external tools, systems, and data sources. By standardizing context exchange, MCP enables AI assistants to interact with...
.net development
ai assistant
ai integration
ai tools
api standardization
aws
c# sdk
data sources
developer tools
external systems
interoperability
large language models
mcp
mcp server
microsoft azure
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natural language commands
nuget
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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25174 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
We’re previewing the new Game Pass widget with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.
As always, this build also includes a good set of fixes.
We’ve added a few new known issues based...
Adding event handlers: Sounds, Dark Mode & Windowing (Part 2)
Note that in part 1 of the WinAppSDK Blog Series you implemented the visual layer of the DrumPad using WinUI 3 controls. However, if you click on any buttons, nothing happens, because we have not defined any actions, which we will do...
appwindow
compact overlay
customization
dark mode
event handling
full screen
github
nuget
overlapping
soundplayer
sounds
theme resources
toggleswitch
user experience
visual studio
winappsdk
window management
windows development
winui
xaml
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22533 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
We are resetting the rollout of the updated entry point for Widgets with weather on the taskbar first introduced with Build 22518. As a result, some Insiders who had this enabled may...
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22489 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
We are beginning to slowly rollout a new “Your Microsoft account” settings page that will give you quick access to information related to your Microsoft account directly within...
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bug fixes
build 22489
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dns
feedback hub
file explorer
insider preview
known issues
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nuget
online services
performance
sdk
settings
taskbar
update
windows 11
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wireless display
Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v7.1
The Windows Community Toolkit has another update filled with improvements and features! We’re thrilled to announce version 7.1 is available today! Made possible again with the support and contributions of our developer community. 🎉 If you are new to the...
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authentication
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customization
developers
dotnet
features
gaze controls
improvements
microsoft graph
mvvm
nuget
richsuggestbox
shadows
source generators
uwp
version 7.1
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windows app sdk
After many months of invigorating the Windows Community Toolkit with a multitude of improvements and features; we are happy to announce version 7.0 is available today! Made possible again with the support and contributions of our developer community.🎉 If you are new to the Toolkit, the Windows...
Uno Platform is a free and open-source platform aiming to take WinUI apps built with C# and XAML everywhere. If you are not familiar with WinUI, it is the native UX platform for building modern apps for Windows 10 - you can learn more about it on the Link Removed. With Uno Platform you can...
android
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dark mode
infobar
ios
light mode
linux
macos
nuget
numberbox
open source
tutorial
ui controls
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visual studio
webassembly
winui
xaml
Uno Platform is a free and open-source platform aiming to take WinUI applications built with C# and XAML everywhere. If you are not familiar with WinUI, it is the native UX platform for building Windows applications - you can learn more about it on the Link Removed. With Uno Platform you can...
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dark mode
development
infobar
light mode
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macos
nuget
numberbox
open source
templates
tutorial
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uwp
visual studio
webassembly
winui
xaml
The C#/WinRT team is excited to announce our latest release, which includes a preview of C#/WinRT authoring with the latest C#/WinRT NuGet package, as well as updates to the .NET 5.0 SDK with the .NET February update. Since our last blog post on C#/WinRT v1.0, we have some new features to show...
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authoring
components
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development
diagnostics
features
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hosting
migration
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update
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In every one of the billion Windows 10 devices worldwide, there is a GPU for accelerating your AI tasks. From photo editing applications enabling new user experiences through AI to tools that help you train machine learning models for your applications with little effort, DirectML accelerates...
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healthcare
image processing
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tensorflow
video games
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In every one of the billion Windows 10 devices worldwide, there is a GPU for accelerating your AI tasks. From photo editing applications enabling new user experiences through AI to tools that help you train machine learning models for your applications with little effort, DirectML accelerates...
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development
directml
gpu
hardware acceleration
healthcare
image processing
lobe
machine learning
model inference
neural networks
nuget
onnx
open source
real-time graphics
tensorflow
video games
windows 10
windows ml
Introduction
Win32 APIs provide powerful functionality that let you get the most out of Windows in your applications. While these APIs are readily accessible to C and C++ developers, other languages like C# and Rust require wrappers or bindings in order to access these APIs. In C#, this is...
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coding
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cross-language communication
developer experience
documentation
ecosystem
intellisense
languageprojections
metadata
nuget
pinvoke
rust
sdk
software development
win32
win32metadata
Today is the official GA release for .NET 5, and along with it we are excited to share the latest updates with our recent release of C#/WinRT version 1.0. C#/WinRT provides WinRT projection support for .NET 5 based apps. The Windows SDK leverages this technology and is now integrated with the...
bugs
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component authors
development
interop
net
nuget
performance
projection
release
runtime
sdk
target framework monikers
tfms
update
visual studio
windows api
winui
We have several important updates to share with the latest release of C#/WinRT. This release is feature complete for consumption scenarios, which means that all features for using our generated Windows SDK projections to call WinRT APIs are now in their final form. We expect C#/WinRT to have...
Today at Microsoft Build 2020 the WinUI team is excited to announce the latest version of WinUI 3 available for public preview: WinUI 3 Preview 1. This preview expands the world of WinUI to an even wider audience of developers – the previously-released WinUI 3 Alpha was only available to UWP app...
This year, Microsoft Build 2020 is a digital-only event that we all get to experience from the comfort of our homes. We hope you enjoy learning about the new features and technologies that matter most to you. Today, I will have the privilege of sharing how developers can build apps for modern...
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wsl
TraceProcessor version 0.3.0 is now available on NuGet with the following package ID:
Microsoft.Windows.EventTracing.Processing.All
This release contains some feature additions and bug fixes since version 0.2.0. (A full changelog is below). Basic usage is still the same as in version 0.1.0...
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bug fixes
changelog
contextswitch
data processing
event data
event tracing
feedback
hypervisordata
memory management
nuget
process management
processing
sample code
streaming
syscalls
threaddata
traceprocessor
version 3.0
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