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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...

One of the new libraries I've not blogged about enough (cough... at all... cough) is one that will help the C++ or C# dev create GPU accelerated 2D Windows Runtime apps on Windows 8.1/WinPhone 8.1 and Windows 10. Why haven't I blogged about it? Well, I hate the author... JUST KIDDING. No, I've...

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...

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...

Link Removed available to customers in over 190 markets and providing developers the tools they need to submit Universal Windows Platform apps and games to a single unified Windows Store. The Windows 10 Store is the first app store in the industry designed to provide a single platform for...

Pen users can now use these tools as a "first class input method" on Windows 10 based systems using the new Remote Desktop Universal Windows Platform app. read more Continue reading...

We’re pleased to announce a new open source library for integrating Facebook into your Windows apps. The Windows SDK for Facebook is geared towards app developers creating Universal Windows apps on both desktop and phone. The SDK supports universal Windows app for Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 8.1...

17 of the many great posts, episodes and shows from last week. Can you feel the excitement building yet? Just a couple more weeks! Link Removed A technical evangelist explains how he uses OneNote for collaboration with his teammates. OneNote provides a central location where the entire team...

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...

Hi, I’m Link Removed an Engineer on the Microsoft Edge Web Apps team, I’m so happy to talk to you in depth about Project Westminster. About Universal Windows Platform Bridges Universal Windows Platform Bridges consist of a toolkit of three components: developer tools, Store ingestion...

July will be a big month for developers with the releases of Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10, and the Universal Windows App Development Tools, which includes the Windows 10 SDK. The purpose of this post is to make you aware of the key dates and some things to keep in mind with regard to version...

In this episode, Link Removed guest hosts and is joined by Link Removed, who shows off many of the improvements in XAML tooling in both Visual Studio 2015 and Blend for Visual Studio 2015. Some of these improvements are specific to Windows Universal Apps, but many are available to all XAML...

This post was written by Josh Rennert, Program Manager, Web Apps & Frameworks team We received great feedback and insight from our WinJS 4.0-Preview, released earlier this year. Now, the time has finally arrived. With the imminent release of Windows 10, we are proud to announce WinJS 4.0. You...

At Build 2015, Link Removedprovided a great introduction to the Universal Windows Platform and several of the Windows 10 features developers can enable. With over 2,500 new platform features for your app to leverage, the Universal Windows Platform makes it easier to design, develop, debug and...