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Creating a Custom Ruler with DirectInk
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update comes with a great set of enhancements to digital ink for both the user and developer. Along with gaining knowledge from general inking resources, you will finish...
View ArticleCustomer segmentation and push notifications: a new Windows Dev Center...
We’re excited to announce that we’ve added a new customer segmentation and push notifications feature to the Windows Dev Center Insider Program. To try it out, you’ll need to join the Dev Center...
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Introducing the UWP Community Toolkit
Recently, we released the Windows Anniversary Update and a new Windows Software Developer Kit (SDK) for Windows 10 containing tools, app templates, platform controls, Windows Runtime APIs, emulators...
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Announcing the “App Dev on Xbox” live event
Windows 10 Anniversary Update was released earlier this month and became instantly available to all existing Windows 10 devices, including PCs, phones, Xbox Ones, IoT boards and more – upwards of 350...
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Beautiful apps made possible and easy with Windows.UI
If you are into creating sweet UI, then you’re definitely going to want to dig into the new Visual Layer with Windows.UI.Composition. The Windows.UI.Composition namespace allows Universal Windows...
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Interop between XAML and the Visual Layer
The Composition APIs empower Universal Windows Platform (UWP) developers to do beautiful and powerful things when they drop down to the Visual Layer (as in the sample below). One of the remarkable...
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New Dev Center Capabilities
Dev Center continuously adds more options to enable you to monetize and promote your apps and games, and to streamline new submissions or analyze app performance. This month, Dev Center adds new...
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Helpshift releases Windows SDK
In-app customer service provider Helpshift just announced a Windows version of their SDK. Helpshift has reinvented the customer service industry by deflecting customer service requests away from...
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Announcing Intel® Joule™ support in Windows 10 IoT Core Anniversary Edition
Two weeks ago I was excited to see us unveil Windows 10 IoT Core Anniversary Edition running on the new Intel® Joule™, built on the new Intel® Atom™ T5700 SOC. It took us a little over 6 weeks to bring...
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Windows 10 IoT Core Blockly
In this blog post you’ll learn about IoT Core Blockly, a new UWP application that allows you to program a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 and a Raspberry Pi Sense Hat using a “block” editor from your browser: You...
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Introducing Arduino Wiring on Windows 10 IoT Core
Developers targeting Windows 10 IoT Core can use a programming language of their choice. Today, this includes C#, C++, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Python and Node.js, but we’re not stopping there....
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Windows IoT Core Extension for Visual Studio Code
About the Windows IoT Core Extension for VS Code Visual Studio Code is the first code editor and first cross-platform development tool – supporting OS X, Linux, and Windows – in the Visual Studio...
View ArticleDevice to Device Communication with Azure IoT Hub
We’ve already seen how to get your devices to send data to the cloud. In most cases, the data is then processed by various Azure services. However, in some cases the cloud is nothing more than a means...
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Tailoring your app for Xbox and the TV (App Dev on Xbox series)
As promised, we are continuing the wave of sharing what we kicked off last week during the “App Dev on Xbox” event. Every week for the next two months, we will be releasing a new blog post where we...
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Creating Beautiful Effects for UWP
The Composition APIs allow you to enhance the appeal of your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app with a wide range of beautiful and interesting visual effects. Because they are applied at a low level,...
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Accessibility and your app design
Accessibility is about making your app usable to the largest possible audience. For some apps, accessibility is required by law. For others, it’s part of the service you are offering to a specific...
View ArticleApps built using the Desktop Bridge now available in the Windows Store!
A few months ago, during Build 2016, we announced the Desktop Bridge, enabling developers to bring their existing desktop apps and games over to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) by converting...
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Smooth Interaction and Motion with the Visual Layer
The Composition APIs come with a robust animation engine that provides quick and fluid motion running in a separate process from your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app. This provides a consistent 60...
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“Throwing your voice” with Spatial Audio
The age-old act of ventroquilism sees a puppet move its mouth while the controlling ventriloquist speaks without moving their lips – pretty impressive! The underlying technique has the ventriloquist...
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Unity Interop and App Extensibility (App Dev on Xbox series)
Continuing what we started during the “App Dev on Xbox” event, today we are making available yet another app experience – Atmosphere. In this blog post, you will learn how to get started building great...
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