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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...

As developers, we adapt as technologies move from the realm of Science Fiction into readily available SDKs. That’s certainly, or perhaps especially, true for speech technologies. In the past 5 years, devices have become more personal and demanding of new forms of interaction. In Windows 10...

Link Removed SQLite version 3.11.2 is shipping with the Windows 10 Anniversary edition as part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and is recommended for all UWP local data storage needs. This represents the first time an open source, third-party library, such as SQLite, has shipped as part...

The Microsoft Visio 2016 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains the latest documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools that you need to develop custom solutions for Visio 2016. Link Removed

I've tried everything I could find. I've tried disabling antivirus, I've tried downloading the SDK, ect. None of it works. Every time I get the same message, "An internal error occurred. Please refer to DXError.log and DirectX.log in your Windows folder to determine the problem". Here is what...

Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms. Vulkan - Industry Forged Tech demos: Vulkan on Android Drivers: Nvidia Vulkan...

Link Removed Welcome to the first in a series of hands-on blog posts for the Windows Bridge for iOS. The Windows Bridge for iOS is an open-source project that allows you to create Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that can run on Windows 10 devices using iOS APIs and Objective-C code...

We’re happy to announce that the video recordings from last weeks’ Developers’ Guide to Windows 10 live event are now available on-demand on Channel 9. This half day event is an addendum to the existing Developers’ Guide to Windows 10 video series and covers new features for developers in the...

In this session, learn what's new in Windows 10 version 1511 from the developers' perspective. Major new features in this update include Windows 10 for Mobile, Continuum for Mobile, next gen authentication using Windows Hello and Microsoft Passport, and the new Windows Store for Business. Learn...

We got some very cool Kinect Developer News this week. Below is the email, in full, which introduces the Kinect developer preview for Windows 10, which includes Windows Hello support. To show this off, Friend of the Gallery, Mike Taulty, published a great detailed description and post. Make...

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... Link Removed This extension...

This page is intended for advanced manual installation of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET, which include SDKs, basic tools, and extended tools for VS 2013 and VS 2015. You can install everything you need for Microsoft Azure development using the Web Platform Installer. Link Removed

Contains the complete software development kit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016, and the User Interface Integration (UII) SDK. Link Removed

This week we released a new Windows 10 SDK. Let’s dive deeper into some of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) improvements in the SDK update: Visuals, Effects, and Animations Introducing Windows.UI.Composition, a new API family that directly targets the UI foundation layer. The UI...

The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 Developer Pack installs the .NET Framework 4.6.1, the .NET 4.6.1 Targeting Pack and the .NET 4.6.1 SDK. Link Removed

Your requests to grow the XAML Behaviors platform and bring them forward to support UWP app development have been heard. Today we announce the next step: XAML Behaviors natively supported for UWP and shipping as a NuGet package (for both native and managed projects). Additionally, to build a...

Last week was a very exciting week. The Connect(); //2015 event was held and about a million things were shown and announced. Some of the cooler announcements revolved around VS Code v0.10.1 (November - Beta 2015) With this release, we mark our official Beta milestone and the big news is that...

Stand-alone, redistributable and SDK installers for Microsoft MPI. Link Removed

This past August we announced the Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK with support for video interstitial ads and ad mediation. Video interstitials are full screen video ads, 20-30 seconds, that typically offer up to 10x the eCPM (value per thousand views) vs traditional banner ads. This makes...

The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC is a highly compatible, in-place update to the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6. The offline package can be used in situations where the...