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How to leverage PubMatic’s Windows SDK to scale monetization across devices...
When developers and publishers work with Software Development Kits (SDKs), they typically think of mobile-specific applications. However, since the Windows 10 app is device-agnostic, PubMatic built a...
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Bringing Pori Fashion Show to Windows Using Windows Bridge for iOS
The Windows Bridge for iOS is a great way for iOS developers to bring their existing apps to the Windows platform. The iOS bridge lets you re-use your existing code while also gaining the benefits of a...
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Marmalade makes it easy to create games that run cross-platform
At //build 2016, developers were shown how to create cross-platform games for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 using Visual Studio and the Marmalade Platform, the leading cross-platform solution for game...
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React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
Today, Microsoft and Facebook announced at Facebook’s developer conference, F8 2016, that we’re adding Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support to React Native. This is provided as an open source,...
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Windows App Studio Update: Installer companion app
If you’ve used Windows App Studio before, you know that it’s an easy-to-use tool for building Windows apps. You also know that the sideloading and installation process has been a bit complex by...
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Tips for porting apps from Windows Phone Silverlight to UWP
Windows Store has always had a healthy community of Windows Phone Silverlight developers. Because Windows Store has over 270 million active Windows 10 devices today, we’d like to help our developer...
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Map APIs and controls: Adding external elements
In the first post of this series, you got started with the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) MapControl class. In the second post, you worked with geolocation, geocoding, and map routes. In this final...
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Intro to porting Unity 3D games to UWP: Building and deploying
Did you know that you can easily get your Unity 3D game into the Windows Store simply by creating it in Unity or porting an existing game to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP)? That’s a big deal,...
View ArticleApril 2016 evaluation Windows developer virtual machines
We’re releasing the April 2016 edition of our evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (VM) on Windows Dev Center. The VMs come in Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox, and VMWare flavors and will...
View ArticleAdding Cortana and Bluetooth to a UWP app for Phillips Hue
Smart devices are becoming increasingly popular. One great device is the Phillips Hue lightbulb – a colorful, internet-connected light you can control with your phone from the comfort of your couch. No...
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Propellerhead and UWP Make Beautiful Music Together with the Figure App
Swedish developers Propellerhead Software know a lot about audio. They have been creating software synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers since the mid-‘90s that have been used by hobbyists and...
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Intel’s contributions to the Windows Bridge for iOS: The Accelerate Framework
Intel® is committed to ensuring that developers have the best experience on Intel platforms to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We want to make sure that developers who have invested in...
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Design thinking: finding your inspiration
One of the biggest differences between developers and designers is that development is something developers do while design is something creatives are. To think like a designer means constantly honing...
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The Lifecycle of a UWP App
Lifecycle management in a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app is critical for the efficient use of battery power and memory. When done correctly, it allows the user to multitask between apps without...
View ArticleWindows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview Build 14332 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 14332 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a...
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Getting Started with Roaming App Data
Users today are mobile, transitioning from one device to the next throughout the day. Increasingly, these same users expect (or even demand) to take their data with them. Fortunately for us, roaming...
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Data Access in Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Apps
SQLite version 3.11.2 is shipping with the Windows 10 Anniversary edition as part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and is recommended for all UWP local data storage needs. This represents the...
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Roaming app data and the user experience
The user experience for roaming app data is similar to a magic trick. Work is done behind the scenes to create the illusion that data is moving from place to place when, in fact, all that really...
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Kickstart UWP app creation with Windows App Studio’s open source UWP...
Windows App Studio is all about making it as easy as possible to build apps for Windows. The online tool helps you build apps with no coding required, so you can either start your project there and...
View ArticleSell apps to organizations through Windows Store for Business
Windows Store for Business is a web-based portal that IT decision makers, purchasers and administrators use to find, acquire, manage, and distribute Windows Store apps across their organization’s...
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