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Today at //BUILD we are making an update available to the Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows apps. Windows 10 is an exciting release for developers, with support for Universal Windows apps that run across all Windows 10 devices – on the phone in your pocket, the tablet or laptop in your...

This guest blog post is the final post of a 3-part series written by Windows developer Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original 3rd post on Jani’s blog Link Removed, and refer to Part 1 Link Removed and Part 2 here. Moving the ship When we’re doing a universal app, we have to take in account...

While I've not highlighted frameworks and such recently, when Brian Lagunas reached out to me about today's news I knew I had today's post. I've used Prism myself in a couple WPF LOB app's and found it pretty darn cool and useful. If you're building complex applications, with multiple team...

This guest blog post is the first of a 3-part series written by Windows MVP Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original post Link Removed, and stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3 coming soon. I believe that games are still one of the most fun ways to get to know a new programming language. Since there...

Today's project is cool fan created Windows 8.1 app for an area near and dear to my heart... Link Removed Introduction The app tutorial for Windows Blog Reader at msdn.com is out of date, the feed links don't work, and there are some other unknown problems. To Address that problem, I took...

Peter Daukintis, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, who we recently highlighted, Kinect for Windows v2 Face Tracking Managed and Native, continues his Kinect for Windows v2 exploration and sharing, this time with two posts about the very cool Visual Gesture Builder. Link Removed When I created a...

Peter Daukintis, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, recently posted about Face Tracking with the Kinect for Windows v2. What was a little different is that he posted both managed and native looks... Link Removed Since working on the virtual rail project I haven’t had much chance to carry out...

Today Friend of the Gallery is back, today with a cool control you can use in your next Kinect for Windows WPF app. Other recent Gallery Posts for Vangos Pterneas; Understanding the Kinect Coordinate Mapping, with a little help from Vangos Pterneas Looking at the Kinect for Windows v2 Color...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (February 12, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in the .NET Framework. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if a user views a specially...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (January 8, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities in the .NET Framework. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if a user...

Any chance of a Windows 8 development forum being here? Whether it's for general desktop development, Windows 8 store app development (XAML/HTML5/JavaScript/CSS)?

Want to write a 3D game for Windows 8, but not sure where to start? In this video, we'll show you the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, which is now available on the Visual Studio Developer Code Samples site for all editions of Visual Studio 2012 that support writing Windows Store apps, including...

In the previous Quickstarts, we have introduced the app and looked at handling data requests and formatting. In this next video, we will look at binding that data to the interface. Binding and Windows 8 TemplatesData binding plays a central role in the Windows Store project templates available...

Resolves a vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a specially crafted webpage by using a web browser that can run XAML browser applications (XBAPs). More...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V2.1 (May 22, 2012): Added entry to the update FAQ to announce a detection change for KB2604092 for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 and KB2604110 for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2 to correct an installation issue...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (June 12): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (June 12): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a...

With the introduction of Metro style apps for C++ developers, Microsoft now brings the XAML UI platform to native code! I will take you through a lap around creating a Metro style app in XAML and C++. I'll introduce the fundamentals of the XAML platform in WinRT and how C++ developers can...

Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012, 0900 - 1700 PDT for an all-day Windows Camp focused on building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++. This event will be streaming live right here on Channel 9 (media player will be on this very page)! All sessions will...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (May 8, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in the .NET Framework. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a...