XAML Islands was our first solution to enable developers to use UWP XAML inside their desktop (Win32) apps. Within a couple of months after the release of XAML Islands, behavioral insights and customer interviews raised some signals about how developers were using it. We discovered that a...
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It's Winter Break for many of us and being the geeks we are, we're looking for something to develop... :)
When kicking off a new project, many times it can really help starting from an existing Project Template.
We've highlighted the cool UWP templates from FirstFloor before, Go beyond "Blank...
Today's Extension Monday post is about one of the coolest new extension opportunities, extension Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS, fka Visual Studio Online).
To get you started creating VSTS extensions, Josh Garverick has shared a great Project Template...
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We're back with a Theme Week, this time focusing on... wait for it... Windows 10 (Okay, I had a number of Win10 posts in the queue, so thought this a good means to get them out. :)
Visual Studio Project Templates are great tools to help you kick off a new project quickly. They can help scaffold...
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Like many of you, I'm looking at jumping into developing Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform apps. So like most of you, I fire up Visual Studio, New Project and look for a Project Template to help me hit the ground running.
Let's see, for creating a Windows 10 app there's... one UI template...
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Greetings, Makers!
We are excited to announce the public release of Link Removed for the Link Removed and the Link Removed. Visit the Windows IoT Dev Center to choose your target board, then walk through the steps to provision your board, acquire the tools, and get started Making. This release...
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For the past few months we've been highlighting projects and examples that extend Visual Studio in one way or another. Well today's post is the "Mother of all Visual Studio Extensibility Post."
Why? When the examples come from the Visual Studio Product Team itself, that's hard to beat... :)...
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The Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been available for download for about a month now and if you haven't started building Metro style apps, now is a good time. In this episode, Robert takes a look at how you can use Visual Studio 11 to start building Metro style apps for Windows 8. Robert will...