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A new open-sourced tool is now available for the Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) community: the WinAppDriver UI Recorder tool. This tool will enable users to easily create automated UI tests. For those of you not familiar with WinAppDriver, it is a UI automation service for Windows 10...

We’ve just published an update to the Console UWP App project templates on the Visual Studio marketplace here. The latest version (v1.5) adds support for C#. The C# template code only works with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 or later. In a previous post, I described how to build a simple...

As announced in the May 2018 issue of MSDN Magazine, the latest Windows update introduces support for Console UWP apps. We’re also introducing support for UWP apps to get broader access to the file-system than was previously possible. In fact, it was during the design and development phases of...

Today’s web developers face more challenges than ever before. New frameworks spring up left and right. The number of devices capable of running the web multiply by the day. And we strive as creators to enable an inclusive and trustworthy world where fundamentals like accessibility, privacy...

Today, we are pleased to announce that Visual Studio 15.8 Preview 1 contains an early preview of the SDK and tools to allow you to create your own 64-bit ARM (ARM64) apps. These tools answer the requests of many eager developers, and the development made possible with these tools represents the...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 17125 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17125 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed. The Preview SDK Build 17095 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For feedback and updates to the...

We are planning to upgrade our windows server from 2003 to 2016. In our existing windows server 2003 we hosted dotnet webservers and its running on visual studion 2010. If we upgrade server from 2003 to 2016, is this required to upgrade my visual studio application from 2010 to higher version or...

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...