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Help Increase Your Windows App Usage, Retention, and Monetization with Azure...

Azure Mobile Engagement is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivered platform that enables app user analytics, fine-grain user segmentation and smart, contextually-aware, out-of-app and in-app push...

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Windows Store Trends – February 2016

This blog is the latest in a recurring series highlighting recent Windows Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Understanding these trends can help you determine what types of apps to...

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What is Windows Remote Arduino and What Can It Do?

This post is an overview of the Windows Remote Arduino library, one of the technologies used in the World’s Largest Arduino Maker Challenge. Windows Remote Arduino is an open-source Windows library...

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Windows 10

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which means that it can be used in all apps targeting Windows 10. With OCR you can extract text and text layout...

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Adding App Intelligence Tools: Apteligent for Windows 10 App Development

In an effort to expand their user base and brand, developers are deploying on more devices and more platforms every day. This can expose more issues in your apps and more complexity in resolving them....

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UWP Tile Generator Extension for Visual Studio

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...

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Leveraging existing code for Yahoo Mail with Hosted Web Apps

Creating a Hosted Web App (HWA) is a great way to fast track an app into the Windows Store when you already have an existing web app. Yahoo found this out firsthand when they realized they could use...

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Building a Great Hosted Web App

Hosted Web Apps, the Windows bridge for web applications, have become a popular choice among developers for building Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. It’s no surprise that some of the top apps in...

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Using the iOS Bridge to Bring Storyboards and Auto Layout to Windows 10

In part one of the Windows Bridge for iOS series, we created a simple to-do list app in Xcode and used the Windows Bridge for iOS to bring it over to Windows 10. In part two of the series, we went on...

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Windows App Studio February 2016 update – agenda layout, searching in apps,...

The Windows App Studio team is excited to announce a new update to the service that went live this morning, and this update is packed with robust new features.  This update is the first of 2016 and...

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Improvements to Windows Store apps and games visibility

Windows Store has received feedback from some developers who were not able to find their apps in the Store and we’ve been working hard to improve app visibility. In addition to improving app...

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Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 14267 Released

Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 14267 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a production...

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An Update on the Developer Opportunity and Windows 10

At Build last year, we unveiled our Bridges strategy and our commitment to provide developers with tools to accelerate bringing their apps to Windows 10 devices. Our goal is to make it easy for...

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Windows 10 IoT Core support for Raspberry Pi 3

This morning, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced availability of their new board—the Raspberry Pi 3. We’re excited to have Windows 10 support the new board via a new Windows 10 IoT Core Insider...

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Building a media-centric Hosted Web App

In our previous post, we kicked off our series on Hosted Web Apps (also known as Project Westminster) by publishing Building a Great Hosted Web App.  Today, we’ll show how an existing website that uses...

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Windows Store analytics API now available

Today Dev Center released the Windows Store analytics API, which provides analytics information for your Windows Store apps without requiring logging into Dev Center. Using a REST API you can retrieve...

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Learn Windows Holographic Today

The day we’ve all been waiting for has arrived. After a year of building excitement, Alex Kipman has announced that invitations to preorder the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition are starting to...

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Connect your Windows app to Azure IoT Hub with Visual Studio

Hello, Makers! A key part of being productive is having great tools. For developers, this can make the difference between a successful app that delights our users and a project that never got off the...

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Hosted Web Apps: Go Beyond the App

We’ve talked about the right kind of app to start with for a Hosted Web App, and we’ve talked about why Hosted Web Apps are a good approach for a number of media partners. In this post, we’ll talk...

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Building Hosted Web Apps with Windows App Studio

If you have a web app that’s currently available publicly via URL, you can easily bring it to Windows 10 using Windows App Studio’s Hosted Web App template. Windows App Studio is an online service that...

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