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Communicating with your users
While a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app should be visually appealing, it should also project the voice of the original app creators from time to time. After all, a good user experience is...
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Choosing the path forward for existing desktop apps
Continuing in our series on using the Desktop Bridge to bring your existing desktop apps to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), let’s follow up last month’s post on the path from a desktop app to a...
View ArticleWindows Bridge for iOS: UIKit, meet XAML. XAML, meet UIKit.
One year ago this August, we released the Windows Bridge for iOS (“Project Islandwood”) as an open-source project on GitHub. For those of you just joining us, the goal of the iOS bridge is to make it...
View ArticleImprovements to the advertising performance reports in Dev Center
We’ve heard your feedback to upgrade the advertising performance reporting capabilities in Dev Center and have made a few platform updates to get there. Below are some of the improvements we’ve made,...
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Building Secure Apps for Windows IoT Core
Secure communication in the cloud normally involves the following: Data encryption: hiding what is sent Data integrity: protecting data from being tampered with Authentication: validating the identity...
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What is app attribution?
Mobile app attribution, different from traditional online attribution which uses things like cookies or pixel tags, is the method of measuring a user’s activities on an app. These activities could be...
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Windows Bridge for iOS: App Analysis Tool Now Available
Today, we’re happy to announce the release of the iOS App Analysis tool as part of the Windows Bridge for iOS. To recap, the Windows Bridge for iOS is an open-source project that allows you to create...
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Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux
At Build 2016, Microsoft introduced to the world the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta) [WSL], which enables developers to run native Ubuntu user-mode console binaries through the Bash shell in Windows...
View ArticleUpdates in Dev Center analytics
Through our developer forums and our Dev Center feedback channels, we receive a ton of great ideas about what you’d like the engineering teams to prioritize with regard to feature development. Many of...
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Offline Apps: what to do when your user disconnects
You’ve just boarded your airplane flight, found a free spot in the overhead to store your carry-on and settle in for the journey by pulling out your Windows 10 device to check for status updates on...
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Adding color to your design
What is your favorite color? Most of us have been asked this question for as long as we can remember. And for most of us, this decision probably marked our first and foundational experience with...
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Windows App Studio July ’16 release: Introducing a community-driven API gallery
Hope everyone is having an awesome summer now that we’re kicking into those late July days. We just released a very fun and impactful update to Windows App Studio that will allow you to incorporate a...
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Battery awareness and background activity
The Windows platform targets all kinds of devices: desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, HoloLens, IoT and Xbox. As a developer you want your users to have a great user experience with your app across...
View ArticleWindows 10 Anniversary Update SDK Now Available! Windows Store Open for...
Today I’m pleased to announce that following the Windows 10 Anniversary Update we have released the Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK, build 14393 along with Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. The new SDK...
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The Ink Canvas and Ruler: combining art and technology
How easy is it to integrate Inking into your app? As easy as one line of XAML. In this post, we’re going to walk you through the new Windows 10 Inking capabilities, which are making communication via...
View ArticleAugust 2016 evaluation Windows developer virtual machines
We’re releasing the August 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...
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Polishing Your App with Animations and Audio Cues
There are plenty of well-designed apps out there. Often what distinguishes a great Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app from a good one is the small touches, like animations and audio cues. This post...
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Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Adds New UWP Exporter
New developers – bring your app to various devices on Windows 10 with a simple mouse click. Clickteam has joined the Universal Windows Platform revolution with the release of its new UWP Exporter for...
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Learn what every PC game dev should know about Windows 10
Reposted with permission from Gamasutra Introduction: Building the best place… to build At GDC Europe 2016, the Microsoft developer platform team is excited to showcase the technologies we’ve been...
View ArticleRecap: The Future of Gaming on UWP – GDC Europe Twitter Chat
This year’s Game Developers Conference Europe (GDC Europe) proved that there’s a lot to be excited about if you’re a Windows game developer. Play Anywhere, Xbox’s Project Scorpio, ID@Xbox – those are...
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