visual studio

  1. Windows Developer Day in London – Windows 10 Fall Creators Update SDK Availability

    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...
  2. Windows Template Studio 1.3 Released!

    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...
  3. Windows Template Studio 1.2 released!

    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...
  4. Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 16232 Released

    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...
  5. Calling WinRT Components from a Win32 process via the Desktop Bridge

    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...
  6. Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 16225 Released

    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...
  7. Native Ads in Microsoft Advertising SDK

    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...
  8. P

    Windows 10 Should I upgrade Win7 Home Premium to Win 10?

    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...
  9. UWP and the evolution of touch development

    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...
  10. B

    Windows 10 Error during project creation in vs2015

    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...
  11. B

    Windows 10 Alljoyn application using alljoyn studio

    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...
  12. Introducing XAML Standard and .NET Standard 2.0

    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...
  13. Announcing Microsoft Build Tour 2017

    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...
  14. Announcing Windows Template Studio

    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...
  15. Build 2017: Sparking the next wave of creativity with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

    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...
  16. VIDEO Windows Mixed Reality Dev Kits available for pre-order

    Anyone following the excitement around virtual reality and augmented reality over the past year is aware of the anticipation surrounding Microsoft’s new Windows Mixed Reality headsets. You understand that a rapidly expanding mixed reality market is just waiting for developers like you to get...
  17. Windows is home for developers with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

    It was an amazing day today at Build 2017. With the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, we continue to grow the Windows platform so that Windows is home for all developers. As I reflect on the day, I want to highlight how Windows and VS are creating the best end-to-end development process and...
  18. Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 16190 Released

    Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 16190 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16190 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...
  19. Windows 10 Visual Studio Broken.

    So one time I was trying to install Visual Studio 2015. (I know 2017 exists but it wouldn't work and I didn't want to take the extra offline steps) Turns out that it got stuck and I had to close it with Task Manager. Now for some reason, everytime I start up my computer. Visual Studio 2015...
  20. How the UWP Community Toolkit helps Windows developers easily create well-designed and...

    In August 2016, we introduced the open-source UWP Community Toolkit. It simplifies app development and enables developers to collaborate and contribute new capabilities on top of the Windows SDK for Windows 10. Developers can leverage the UWP Community Toolkit to build UWP apps for any Windows...