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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...

Link Removed Project Rome developers have had a month to play with Project Rome for Android SDK (Android SDK), and we hope you are as excited about its capabilities as we are! In this month’s release, we are thrilled to bring you support for app services. Before, we offered the ability to...

Back in October, Satya, Terry and Panos introduced the Windows 10 Creators Update. They showed some of the new features and announced some amazing new additions to our Surface family of devices. Since then, my team has been working to complete the platform work for the Creators Update to deliver...

Project Rome Overview Project Rome is a platform for creating experiences that transcend a single device and driving up user engagement – empowering a developer to create human-centric scenarios that move with the user and blur the lines between their devices regardless of form factor or...

The UWP App Experiences are beautiful, cross-device, feature-rich and functional app samples built to demonstrate realistic app scenarios on the UWP platform across PC, Tablet, Xbox and more. Besides being open source on GitHub, each sample is accompanied by at least one blog post and short...

Adobe Experience Design CC (Beta) or Adobe XD, is a new creative tool from Adobe for designing high-fidelity prototypes of websites and mobile apps. You can try a new public preview released today of Adobe XD on Windows 10. Why Adobe XD? A well-designed app often starts out with a sketch, a...

For the fourth installment in the series, we are open sourcing yet another sample app: South Ridge Video, an open source video app developed as a hosted web application built with React.js and hosted on a web server. South Ridge can easily be converted to a UWP application that takes advantage...

We are back with yet another app, Backdrop, an open source sample media app developed to showcase a cross-device music experience. In this blog post, we will dive deep into the new background model in the Universal Windows Platform, and specifically focus on how to enable your application to...

In our first and second posts in this series, we looked at some of the APIs available in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) for using speech as an input and output mechanism within your application. We’re going to close off the series with this article by broadening our scope and looking at...

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...

Last week was the final week before Build, Ignite and more. Make sure you come back here Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to see Build streamed live! Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Jeremy and guest host Kyle Gostinger, discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed At our...

Everyone is still heads down putting their final touches on their Build and Ignite sessions. Not able to go to Build? Well we're brining Build to a you! The Build Tour is taking Build on the road, to a city hopefully near you. For dates, sessions and locations, check out http://build15.com. Oh...

This is the third of another four part series on building cross-platform apps using Xamarin and C#. In this episode Robert is joined by James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin. James takes us for a tour of CocosSharp, a Xamarin library for building 2D Windows, iOS and Android games...

This week on Channel 9, Jeremy and guest host Chris Kinsman discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed [Terry Myerson] Link Removed Windows 10 developer tooling preview now available to Windows Insiders [Cliff Simpkins] Link Removed Link Removed [S. Somasegar]...

This week on Channel 9, Greg and Nikola discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed [On Demand] The Future of Gaming Across the Microsoft Ecosystem [Phil Spencer], Phil Spencer Announces Developer Tools to Bring Games to Billions Link Removed Link Removed [Gabe Aul] Link...

It was hard narrowing down the list of stuff to highlight this week. Lots and lots of exciting Azure news, plus a full schedule of our regular shows... Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Nisha and guest host Mat Velloso discuss the week's top developer news, including; ... Link Removed In...

This week on Channel 9, Jeremy and guest host Jason Short discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed [Michał Moskal], https://github.com/Microsoft/TouchDevelop, Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed [Gianugo Rabellino] Link Removed The Developer’s Guide to the...