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Using speech in your UWP apps: Look who’s talking
In our first and second posts in this series, we looked at some of the APIs available in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) for using speech as an input and output mechanism within your application....
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Bringing Pori Fashion Show to Windows Using Windows Bridge for iOS (Part 2)
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 reuse your existing code while also gaining the benefits of a...
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Future Strategy for Contextual Sensing
Written by Rinku Sreedhar, Program Manager for Windows Contextual Sensing. We hope you are as excited as we are about the new Contextual Sensing APIs in Windows 10. We introduced multiple new Sensor...
View ArticleWindows Bridge for iOS: Project updates, new features, and new samples
This week, the Windows Bridge for iOS is gaining a number of new features—including improved support for several widely-used iOS layout APIs—and integrating with the official CoreFoundation framework....
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Windows App Studio June ’16 Release: Harnessing the wealth of the web with...
There are two things we love most here on the Windows App Studio team: First, we love adding new features that increase the capabilities of the apps you can create. Second, we love when we can deliver...
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Background activity with the Single Process Model
Interested in running your application in the background? A new developer option available in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update just made background activity a whole lot easier. Your feedback was clear...
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Using the App File Explorer to see your app data
The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) provides several ways to save data for your app on the device, both roaming and locally. Often, your app drives quite a bit of behavior off of this data, whether...
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Debugging a background task on a time trigger
The TimeTrigger class is extremely useful when your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app has background tasks you want to run periodically. For instance, if you are writing a mail app, you will want...
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Using Device Portal to view debug logs for UWP
On Windows desktops, if something went wrong, your first instinct for years may have been to open up the Event Viewer and see if anything red or yellow shows up. Those alerts are saved ETW events,...
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The path from a desktop app to a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app
Last month, we provided an overview of the Desktop Bridge in this blog post. We are excited to announce that since then we’ve released a new version of the desktop app converter, adding support for...
View ArticleWindows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview Build 14366 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 14366 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a...
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Imperia Online Brings MMO Strategy Gaming to Windows 10
Imperia Online, the massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy game, released a Windows Store version of their app in March and are currently working on a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) release....
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FamilyNotes: Introducing a Windows UWP sample using ink, speech, and face...
If you watched the Build 2016 keynote talks, you may have noticed how Microsoft is focusing more and more on improving how we humans interact with computers, by means of ink, speech, and other “more...
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FamilyNotes: Using the camera to detect a user
In our previous post in the FamilyNotes series, we introduced the FamilyNotes app, its features, and provided a brief history of the app’s development process. The FamilyNotes app is a sample app that...
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High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography and videography with Universal Windows...
High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR) is a technique that uses multiple exposures of the same shot in order to reproduce a greater dynamic range of luminosity than is possible with standard digital imaging...
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Designing for Intuitive Navigation
In the past several posts, we have covered user interface (UI) design concepts such as typography, visual cues, and design thinking. In today’s blog, however, we will look at a topic that has much less...
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FamilyNotes: (Spoken) words and pictures
FamilyNotes is a Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app that implements a group noticeboard. The goal of this app was to showcase the various Windows 10 input and interaction features that...
View ArticleWindows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview Build 14383 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 14383 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a...
View ArticleWindows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview Build 14388 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 14388 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a...
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Introducing New Remote Sensing Features
In a previous blog, we discussed the new contextual sensing features and innovations we added to the sensor platform. In today’s blog, we will take a moment to understand remote sensing and then take a...
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