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  1. VIDEO Learn to build great Progressive Web Apps

    Just last week, more than 5000 people attended the very first online PWA Summit, and learned about topics such as bringing PWAs to app stores, new web capabilities, accessibility, offline authentication and much more. If you missed out on the event, you can watch the full recording here. With...
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  2. Announcing WinUI 3: Preview 3

    If you tuned in to this morning’s App Development Community Standup, you know that today we released WinUI 3 Preview 3. If you want to skip the summary and head straight to the release notes and installation instructions, you can find those here. New Features The team has been hard at work on...
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  3. How to Restart your App Programmatically

    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...
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  4. 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...
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  5. 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...
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  6. FamilyNotes: Using the camera to detect a user

    In our previous post in the FamilyNotes series, we introduced the FamilyNotes app, its features, and provided a brief history of the app’s development process. The FamilyNotes app is a sample app that is available on GitHub for you to look over and to use as a basis for your own apps, especially...
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  7. Future Strategy for Contextual Sensing

    Written by Rinku Sreedhar, Program Manager for Windows Contextual Sensing. We hope you are as excited as we are about the new Contextual Sensing APIs in Windows 10. We introduced multiple new Sensor APIs that will let you enable contextual awareness in your apps. I have received several...
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  8. Kickstart UWP app creation with Windows App Studio’s open source UWP libraries and Samples App

    Link Removed is all about making it as easy as possible to build apps for Windows. The online tool helps you build apps with no coding required, so you can either start your project there and extend it in Visual Studio, or you can create and build the app completely in the tool. Today, we want...
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  9. Learn about the samples for Universal Windows Platform

    One way to learn app development for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is by taking advantage of the extensive and growing samples collection on GitHub. You can use these samples to learn about specific UWP features and APIs and as a source of working code that you can copy and paste into...
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  10. Just released: Windows 10 Application Deployment tool

    With the latest release of Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 10166, we are excited to introduce the Windows 10 Application Deployment (WinAppDeployCmd.exe) tool. The Windows 10 Application Deployment (WinAppDeployCmd) is a command line utility that can be utilized to deploy a Universal Windows app...
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  11. Windows 10 Universal App Samples

    Since the month ends with the release of Windows 10, a great way to kick it off is by highlighting the great Windows 10 Universal App Samples available on GitHub. I mean, check out this list of samples! Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples This repo contains the samples that demonstrate the...
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  12. Yummm... Pie! Windows 10 IoT Raspberry Pi Link Round-up

    Since Build I've been accumulating Windows 10 IoT Raspberry Pi stories, thinking I'd release related posts over a couple months, dibbling them out. But the stories just kept coming in, piling up. If I tried to post these one at a time every Friday, I'd be posting nothing else for the year! Well...
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  13. Remember the cool HP Sprout? There's now Emulator available!

    Okay, so this isn't a Visual Studio Extension, but I figure cool SDK's are a good Monday fit too... Link Removed The Link Removed made a big splash when it was announced, but since it's been a little quite. I personally wasn't following much about it because I didn't have a Sprout and you...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8 Public Developer Preview Confirmed... For Later Today!

    Today at Microsoft BUILD, Microsoft confirmed that the developer bits of Windows 8 will be available for download starting at 8 PM AST (this translates into 12 am Atlantic, 11 PM eastern time and 4 am british). It includes demonstration/developmental apps and a fully featured metro UI. Taken...
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