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Last year with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we introduced the Desktop Bridge to provide desktop applications a path to modernize with the Universal Windows Platform, and to distribute via the Windows Store and the Microsoft Store for Business to all Windows 10 PCs, including devices that...

Link Removed Figure 1 Sign-up at Link Removed On the heels of the Build conferences these last few years, we have had the pleasure of meeting thousands of developers around the world. Their feedback and technical insight has helped us to continue the tradition and explore more technical depth...

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Hello everyone! I wanted to take a quick moment to announce an exciting new tool we have developed to help bring to life the apps and experiences you have created for Microsoft HoloLens. Since our launch last year, one of the pieces of feedback we have heard from many folks is, “How can I...

You can now Instagram from your Windows 10 desktop with the latest update to the Universal Windows Platform version of Instagram read more Continue reading...

A few months ago, during Build 2016, we announced the Desktop Bridge, enabling developers to bring their existing desktop apps and games over to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) by converting their app or game with the Desktop App Converter and then enhancing and extending it with UWP...

Continuum for Phones, available on select Windows 10 Mobile devices, allows customers to connect their phone to a monitor, projector, or TV for a full-sized desktop experience, powered by their phone. Because Microsoft Edge is built on the Universal Windows Platform, Microsoft Edge in Continuum...

Link Removed How easy is it to integrate Inking into your app? As easy as one line of XAML. In this post, we’re going to walk you through the new Windows 10 Inking capabilities, which are making communication via writing and drawing easier than ever for users. You’ll learn how to implement...

FamilyNotes is a Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app that implements a group noticeboard. The goal of this app was to showcase the various Windows 10 input and interaction features that enable a personal and individualized computing experience. This is the third of three blog posts...

Link Removed High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR) is a technique that uses multiple exposures of the same shot in order to reproduce a greater dynamic range of luminosity than is possible with standard digital imaging or photographic techniques. The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) empowers you to...

Earlier this year, NPR released a Windows 8 version of Link Removed, and recently, a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version. They were eager to share their challenges and developer experiences in bringing the app to UWP. Link Removed provides talk radio personalized for each listener. NPR’s...

In June we introduced preview support for asm.js, which is now supported by default in Microsoft Edge starting with Microsoft EdgeHTML 13.10532. With this change, Hosted Web Applications and the WebView in any Universal Windows Application can now benefit from asm-optimized code as well. Asm.js...

It’s been an exciting time over the last six months with our first release of Windows 10 IoT Core during //build/ 2015, the first public release in early August 2015, and most recently a new Windows Insider Preview release. Today I’m pleased to share what’s next for Makers on Windows 10 with new...

MSDN magazine has released a special Windows 10 issue. The issue spans a large number of topics from Visual Studio tooling to game development to user experience to notifications. If you don’t get the print magazine, don’t worry, all the articles are online for free. Here is the complete list...

When you design your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app, you're designing in effective pixels, not actual physical pixels. Using effective pixels lets your Universal Windows Platform app scale to different screen sizes. Watch this video to understand the concepts and then read the complete...

Last week Steve Teixeira shared the latest information and news on Windows 10 IoT core and a very IoT Starter Kit... What’s next for Windows 10 IoT Core Back in early August I was pleased to announce the Windows Insider release of Windows 10 IoT Core, a version of Windows 10 targeted towards...

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...

Take a look at how Windows 10 brings a single platform experience to many different devices and how Windows tooling and .NET Native provide developers with a great opportunity to create amazing apps. Link Removed Continue reading...

Link Removedrecently posted this great .NET Analyzer round-up. A few I've seen and highlighted but a couple I'd not, which makes his post one of my favorite kinds... :) A few recent related posts; Refactoring Essentials - Open Source, Cross Platform Refactoring and Analyzers Analyze This...

Everyone knows Windows 10 was released last week, but not everyone knows that besides the desktop version was released, but Windows 10 IoT Core was released for two devices too, the Raspberry Pi 2 and MinnowBoard MAX. Once you get these, the next question might be, how do you get started...