xaml

This week we released a new Windows 10 SDK. Let’s dive deeper into some of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) improvements in the SDK update: Visuals, Effects, and Animations Introducing Windows.UI.Composition, a new API family that directly targets the UI foundation layer. The UI...

Your requests to grow the XAML Behaviors platform and bring them forward to support UWP app development have been heard. Today we announce the next step: XAML Behaviors natively supported for UWP and shipping as a NuGet package (for both native and managed projects). Additionally, to build a...

Our last Windows 10 Theme Week post, we turn to Friend of the Blog, Mike Taulty and his two recent posts about Windows 10, Sphero 2 and Raspberry PI 2 (and Windows 8.1 Lib, WinPhone and PC) Link Removed It’s been a while since I played with my Sphero device and so I thought I’d see if I could...

We're back with a Theme Week, this time focusing on... wait for it... Windows 10 (Okay, I had a number of Win10 posts in the queue, so thought this a good means to get them out. :) Visual Studio Project Templates are great tools to help you kick off a new project quickly. They can help scaffold...

In Windows 10, we've made it exceedingly easy to add "Drag and Drop" functionality to your UWP application. As you're probably aware, "drag and drop" is by no means a new feature for Windows applications. For a very long time, the notion for the user to able to move objects within a single...

One of the questions I hear allot is how do you convert your Windows phone 8/8.1 Silverlight app into a Windows 10 UWP app? Is there a simple converter? No. But one is the works! Mobilize.NET, the company that brought us the cool WinForm to Web App product, WebMAP2 have just released a new...

This week, Shen and I took a look at how you can very easily use the new XAML SplitView control to build an experience in your UWP application that automatically _adapts_ based on the current size of your application. As you may imagine, this is one of the foundational building blocks we...

Today marks the initial release of Mobilize.NET’s Silverlight bridge, which helps Windows Phone Silverlight app developers bring their WP Silverlight 8.x apps to the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Announced at Build 2015, the Moblize.NET bridge is free and directly integrates into...

One way to learn app development for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is by taking advantage of the extensive and growing samples collection on GitHub. You can use these samples to learn about specific UWP features and APIs and as a source of working code that you can copy and paste into...

With the Universal Windows Platform in Windows 10, your apps will now run on a number of device families and automatically scale across the different screen and window sizes, supported by the platform controls. In the next three weeks of the Windows 10 by 10 development series, we’re going to...

Like many of you, I'm looking at jumping into developing Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform apps. So like most of you, I fire up Visual Studio, New Project and look for a Project Template to help me hit the ground running. Let's see, for creating a Windows 10 app there's... one UI template...

One of the new libraries I've not blogged about enough (cough... at all... cough) is one that will help the C++ or C# dev create GPU accelerated 2D Windows Runtime apps on Windows 8.1/WinPhone 8.1 and Windows 10. Why haven't I blogged about it? Well, I hate the author... JUST KIDDING. No, I've...

17 of the many great posts, episodes and shows from last week. Can you feel the excitement building yet? Just a couple more weeks! Link Removed A technical evangelist explains how he uses OneNote for collaboration with his teammates. OneNote provides a central location where the entire team...

Even with a quite week due to the July 4th holiday here in the States, we still have 18 sessions for you to check out... Link Removed Josh Holmes describes Project Nitrogen - a framework that helps maintain data retrieved from hardware devices and stored in the cloud. Link Removed Channel...

Here are just 15 posts from the many released last week. Remember, so see almost everything that's new, check out https://channel9.msdn.com/Browse Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Nikola and guest host Dave Crawford discuss the week's top developer news, including; ... Link Removed...

In this episode, Link Removed guest hosts and is joined by Link Removed, who shows off many of the improvements in XAML tooling in both Visual Studio 2015 and Blend for Visual Studio 2015. Some of these improvements are specific to Windows Universal Apps, but many are available to all XAML...

Thousands of apps in the Store today are using Link Removed to increase ad revenue in Windows Phone apps. Ad mediation, as described in the launch blog post, allows you to manage multiple ad SDKs from different providers, including Microsoft Advertising, AdDuplex, Google AdMob, Inneractive...

Most everyone is back and now starting to get into the swing for the coming wave of releases. I would expect to see a great deal about this wave in the coming months... Link Removed Last year you might have Link Removed that came from Johannes Kopf and team in Link Removed. This week it was...

Link Removed, Friend of the Gallery, posted a short, but sweat Kinect C++ example; Here's some of the other posts from Peter we've highlighted recently; More on the openFrameworks and the Kinect Unity 5 and the Kinect... WebSocketing the Kinect Custom Kinect Gestures in Unity3D? Here's how...

Hello from day 2 of Link Removed in San Francisco. David Treadwell and I just gave the audience a peek at many of the new capabilities the new Universal Window Platform will enable, along with the associated tools and services. We also provided more insight into the Link Removed announced by...