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While a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app should be visually appealing, it should also project the voice of the original app creators from time to time. After all, a good user experience is ultimately a human-centric experience. Communicating effectively with your users requires the...

If you watched the Build 2016 keynote talks, you may have noticed how Microsoft is focusing more and more on improving how we humans interact with computers, by means of ink, speech, and other “more personal computing” features. Modern software is changing focus to using natural interfaces as...

Last month, we provided an overview of the Desktop Bridge in this blog post. We are excited to announce that since then we’ve released a new version of the desktop app converter, adding support for great new features and fixing several issues to provide a more stable environment. To learn more...

Link Removed The TimeTrigger class is extremely useful when your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app has background tasks you want to run periodically. For instance, if you are writing a mail app, you will want to regularly poll for new messages in the background with a time trigger. If you...

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Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC Link Removed

The Windows Mobile 6.5.3 DTK provides documentation, sample code, header and library files, emulator images and tools you can use with Visual Studio to build applications for Windows Mobile 6.5 and 6.5.3. Link Removed

Windows 10 comes on a variety of form factors, which means so do your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. It’s important to make sure that your app looks great on whatever device the users are tapping, typing, or clicking on—even when it’s not open. One of the core experiences on Windows are...

Revision Note: V1.1 (February 10, 2016): Advisory updated to include download information for Microsoft ASP.NET Web Frameworks, and Tools and Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools. This is an informational change only. Summary: Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about...

Last December Miguel de Icaza blogged about a cool, cross platform, light weight 3D game engine that's very C# and friendly... Link Removed [Post Copied in Full] Building 3D experiences and games using a high-level framework that works across all of the major platforms is now as easy as...

This recurring and cumulative servicing update provides fixes to Visual Studio 2015 addressing high impact bugs that are found either by the product team or reported from the community. This update installs only on computers that have Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 installed. Link Removed

Link Removed Welcome to the first in a series of hands-on blog posts for the Windows Bridge for iOS. The Windows Bridge for iOS is an open-source project that allows you to create Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that can run on Windows 10 devices using iOS APIs and Objective-C code...

Hi, I decided that I wanted to remove certain built-in apps from my Windows 10 device by using commands in powershells. Now it appears, I entered the wrong command and ended up messing up all of my apps. Now I can barely use any of them. However, I only need 1 of them that is broken. I can't...

We’re happy to announce that the video recordings from last weeks’ Developers’ Guide to Windows 10 live event are now available on-demand on Channel 9. This half day event is an addendum to the existing Developers’ Guide to Windows 10 video series and covers new features for developers in the...

It's Winter Break for many of us and being the geeks we are, we're looking for something to develop... :) When kicking off a new project, many times it can really help starting from an existing Project Template. We've highlighted the cool UWP templates from FirstFloor before, Go beyond "Blank...

This download includes an self-extracting EXE package that contains Visual Studio and .NET Framework documentation—overviews, how-to articles, API reference pages, sample code, and more—to help you in your development efforts. All of the documentation in the package is also available online. For...

This servicing update provides fixes to Visual Studio 2015 addressing four high impact bugs that are found either by the product team or reported from the community. This update installs only on computers that have Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 installed. Link Removed

In this session, learn what's new in Windows 10 version 1511 from the developers' perspective. Major new features in this update include Windows 10 for Mobile, Continuum for Mobile, next gen authentication using Windows Hello and Microsoft Passport, and the new Windows Store for Business. Learn...

We got some very cool Kinect Developer News this week. Below is the email, in full, which introduces the Kinect developer preview for Windows 10, which includes Windows Hello support. To show this off, Friend of the Gallery, Mike Taulty, published a great detailed description and post. Make...

Hello, Makers! Earlier this year, we announced the availability of Windows IoT Core – a new edition of Windows designed for maker boards and small devices. We’ve been busy the past few months continuing to make improvements to the platform, with the goal of making Windows IoT Core the best...