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...
View ArticleWindows 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleOptical 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...
View ArticleAdding 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....
View ArticleUWP 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...
View ArticleLeveraging 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...
View ArticleBuilding 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...
View ArticleUsing 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...
View ArticleWindows 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...
View ArticleImprovements 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...
View ArticleWindows 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleWindows 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...
View ArticleBuilding 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...
View ArticleWindows 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...
View ArticleLearn 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...
View ArticleConnect 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...
View ArticleHosted 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...
View ArticleBuilding 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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