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Great applications help users do great things — enabling a wide range of creative, productivity and entertainment scenarios. Returning to activities can be a challenge, especially when a person wants to continue those activities across multiple devices. By writing User Activities, application...

Alright I have a 60GB ssd on my desktop and I have noticed Windows is using up almost 60% of my disk space (according to WizTree). Windows is preventing me from deleting some junk (like unneeded upgrade files, OneNote, and even Visual Studio) so I currently have about 5GB of space left even...

We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.5. In this release, we finalized our work for localization, added in some new features, and started work on a bunch of new features and pages. What’s new: Full list of adjustments in the 1.5 release, head over to WTS’s Github...

Visual Studio 2017 15.4 introduced the new Windows Application Packaging project to help you modernizing your application by using the new Windows 10 App Deployment Stack. We talked about it in our previous post: Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 makes it easy to modernize your app and make it store...

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...

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update provides a developer platform that is designed to inspire the creator in each of us – empowering developers to build applications that change the way people work, play and interact with devices. To truly fulfill this platform promise, I believe that our developer...

We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.3. In this release, we added in app scheme launch, finalized our work for localization, massive improvements in accessibility and started our work for Visual Basic support. What’s new: For a full list of adjustments in the 1.3...

We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.2. What makes this release even more special is we’ve been accepted into the .NET Foundation! We are thrilled to be accepted in. In this release, our major new feature is adding content into an existing application with...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 16232 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16232 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

In today’s post, we are covering another step you can take on your journey across the Desktop Bridge: specifically migrating business logic to Windows Runtime Components, aka WinRT Components. Previously, Windows only supported calling OS provided WinRT components from Win32 applications. Any...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 16225 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16225 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

Overview Native Ads is a component-based ad format that gives publishers the flexibility of placing the individual components of a creative – title, image, logo, description, call to action text – so as to provide the best possible fitment to the look and feel of the rest of the app. This...

I have an HP Pavilion HPE, 8G ram, 410G free on C:\, with Win 7 Home Premium loaded. Other than previously backed up files on a second HD the PC is largely clean. No local Win Office installation, etc. I intend to load my Office 365 business plus Visual Studio 2016 and do some development on the...

How is programming for touch development on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) different from mouse and keyboard development in Windows Forms? This post will cover some of the subtle differences between the two and how to use the most advanced tools for building smooth touch experiences. Link...

Hi, I am facing the error " COMException: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component". I have followed the below mentioned steps; 1. Start —> Run —> regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\System32\msxml3.dll 2. Start —> Run —> regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\msxml3.dll 3. Delete...

Hi All, Can anybody help me to create alljoyn application using c++ and alljoyn studio plugin of visual studio 2015. I just have seen documentation just to use the existing interface in C#. But I want to create my own c++ application using AllJoyn Studio. Can anybody help me in this? How to...

XAML Standard We are pleased to announce XAML Standard, which is a standards-based effort to unify XAML dialects across XAML based technologies such as UWP and Xamarin.Forms. XAML Standard is a specification that defines a standard XAML vocabulary. With that vocabulary, frameworks 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...

Today, we are pleased to announce the next evolution in your File → New Universal Windows Platform app in Visual Studio – Windows Template Studio. Windows Template Studio addresses a top community ask in our developer survey to make it easier and provide guidance to create new projects that...

Today, at Build 2017, we announced the next wave of Windows 10 innovations built to empower the creator in all of us – the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Available later this year, the Fall Creators Update delivers new experiences for more than 500 million Windows 10 devices: A new design...