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In today’s post, we’re going wrap up this series by combining everything we’ve learned so far and take you through the steps in creating a custom material. We also have an amazing new tool to show you that empowers anyone to design a custom material. To see how you can use these custom materials...

For some apps (especially games) it is not uncommon for the app to get into a state where it needs to restart – perhaps after a license update, after installing downloadable content, its caches have become corrupt or unwieldy, or for any other reason where the app needs to refresh state from...

Looking for suggestions on tutorials. Can be anything, programming, scripting, network related, 'how does <blank> work'.

Hi, I am trying to create alljoyn application using "ÄllJoyn studio" plugin. Am facing error saying that ""hresult e_fail returned from a call to a com component"". Can anybody help me to resolve this issue? I tried deleting ProjectsTemplateCache and built. But It did not work

Hi All, Can anybody help me to create alljoyn application using c++ and alljoyn studio plugin of visual studio 2015. I just have seen documentation just to use the existing interface in C#. But I want to create my own c++ application using AllJoyn Studio. Can anybody help me in this? How to...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 16190 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16190 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

Revision Note: V1.0 (May 9, 2017): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about vulnerabilities in the public .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications...

The DOM is the foundation of the web platform programming model, and its design and performance impacts the rest of the browser pipeline. However, its history and evolution is far from a simple story. Over the past three years, we’ve embarked on an in-flight refactoring of the DOM in Microsoft...

Link Removed When does the history of mixed reality start? There are lots of suggestions, but 1977 always shows up as a significant year. That’s the year millions of children – many of whom would one day become the captains of Silicon Valley – first experienced something they wouldn’t be able...

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...

I did a lot of research these days and found no useful informations (to me, at least): I want a simple program to read CPU (and possibly GPU) temperatures, but I also want that program to send those values to a usb (connected to an arduino), making programs like Speedfan or HWMonitor not...

Hi, I started a project with visual basic with microsoft visual studio. I want to add audio to my program and play it as background. I searched the Internet and learned how to add .wav to my project. But .wav format is uncompressed audio, therefore it took a lot of space. If the mp3 file take...

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...

When pinning a program to the taskbar, when you launch it it runs the actual executable then the application either runs for the first time, or if it's already running but minimized to the tray, it has to handle that 2nd exe instance -> terminate the second one -> un-minimize the currently...

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...

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...

Hello, Can someone tell me what do I need to learn and start programming tweaks for the UX in Windows 10. Example would be the "7+ Taskbar Tweaker.exe" program that allows you to customize the windows taskbar. thanks Tim

We hope everyone had a great vacation and a very happy New Year! We’re excited to be back and while we have a few exciting updates on the way, here are a few things that you might have missed. Patterns & Controls Tutorials Fly out menus. Dialogue boxes. Buttons. Check, check and check. Learn...

Over the next few months, we will feature game creators who are making games using the Unity game development platform. We’ve partnered with the Made with Unity program to showcase some of the amazing, talented game developers out there and how they use Surface to make their games come to life...

hi I am trying to get PID from the foreground window, but this doesn't work because I am passing the wrong kind of handle to the function. This is under python. How do I fix this? thx! import ctypes import time time.sleep(2) handle = ctypes.windll.user32.GetForegroundWindow() print(handle)...