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How we are improving Windows Store app catalog
Today I want to share with you adjustments we are making to Windows Store app certification policies to improve the Store experience for your customers. How we are improving Windows Store app catalog...
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Windows Store Payout Improvements
Continuing with the Dev Center unification, today I want to share with you payout reporting improvements rolling in the coming weeks that will unify the Windows and Windows Phone experience, provide...
View ArticleA Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 Insider Preview on MVA
We are happy to announce that the Microsoft Virtual Academy training course, A Developer’s Guide to Windows 10, is now available on demand. This video training course, delivered by experts Andy Wigley...
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Dev Center account migration begins next week
Next week we will begin the migration of accounts to the new Windows Dev Center dashboard. You can expect account migration to take place in waves – starting next week and extending into July. The...
View ArticleUsing FFmpeg in Windows Applications
It is important to Microsoft that developers can leverage open-source software when building apps for Windows. As part of this effort we’re very pleased to announce FFmpeg support for Window 8.1,...
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WinJS 4.0 Released
This post was written by Josh Rennert, Program Manager, Web Apps & Frameworks team We received great feedback and insight from our WinJS 4.0-Preview, released earlier this year. Now, the time has...
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Increase ad revenue with ad mediation
Thousands of apps in the Store today are using Windows ad mediation to increase ad revenue in Windows Phone apps. Ad mediation, as described in the launch blog post, allows you to manage multiple ad...
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Running Cocos2d-x on Windows 10
With Microsoft’s latest open source code contribution to the Cocos2d-x project [https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/pull/12107], Microsoft has enabled Cocos2d-x to run on Windows 10 on the Universal...
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Bringing Marmalade SDK-based apps to Windows 10 – a step-by-step guide
With the recent release of the Marmalade Beta SDK with Windows 10 Support, apps and games built with the Marmalade SDK can now be targeted for and deployed to Windows 10 PCs or phones. In most cases,...
View ArticleGetting ready for Windows 10 – SDKs, compatibility, bridges
With Windows 10 being released July 29th, 2015, we want to update you on some new things and some things you can do to get ready now. Windows 10 SDK We are working to deliver the Windows 10 developer...
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Release Dates and Compatibility: Visual Studio 2015 and the Windows 10 SDK
July will be a big month for developers with the releases of Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10, and the Universal Windows App Development Tools, which includes the Windows 10 SDK. The purpose of this post...
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Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 10158 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10158), to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 10158). Preview SDK Build...
View ArticleWorking Toward Universal Interoperability in IoT
Today’s Internet of Things landscape is a modern day Tower of Babel – a proliferation of communication protocols and data formats across the device ecosystem that make it difficult for devices to...
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Networking API Improvements in Windows 10
In today’s cloud-first, mobile-first technology world, most Store apps have at least some integration with web services or other devices on a network. These include apps that fetch online weather...
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Submitting apps with age ratings in the unified Dev Center
Starting in May this year, we began migrating Dev Center accounts to the new dashboard, which has several improvements over the existing Windows Phone or Windows Dev Center dashboards. One of the...
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Project Westminster in a nutshell
Hi, I’m Kiril Seksenov an Engineer on the Microsoft Edge Web Apps team, I’m so happy to talk to you in depth about Project Westminster. About Universal Windows Platform Bridges Universal Windows...
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Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 10166 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10166), to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 10166). Preview SDK Build...
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Just released: Windows 10 Application Deployment tool
With the latest release of Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 10166, we are excited to introduce the Windows 10 Application Deployment (WinAppDeployCmd.exe) tool. The Windows 10 Application Deployment...
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Crash analysis in the unified Dev Center
Higher user ratings are one of the success factors for apps in the Windows Store. Understanding and acting on customer reviews and minimizing app crashes help increase customer satisfaction, and that...
View ArticleWindows SDK for Facebook
We’re pleased to announce a new open source library for integrating Facebook into your Windows apps. The Windows SDK for Facebook is geared towards app developers creating Universal Windows apps on...
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