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More control for app developers in the Windows Store
We’re always thinking about how we can improve the Windows Store onboarding and publishing process to make things easier for you as an app developer. This week we rolled out a few changes to help you...
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Now ready for you: Windows 8.1 and the Windows Store
With today’s announcement of Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 availability, we’re also excited to announce that the Windows Store is now open for submitting apps targeting Windows 8.1. Publishing...
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Microsoft Facebook Hackathon Recap
Microsoft and Facebook recently held a Hackathon at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters with more than 75 attendees building Windows and Windows Phone apps around Facebook Login. Fifteen teams presented...
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Introducing the new hub control for heterogeneous data
In Windows 8, we introduced several concepts and controls to deal with large collections of data. The XAML and HTML ListView control allows you to create uniform grouped lists with a single,...
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Improvements to the ListView control in WinJS 2.0
We’re proud to describe the improvements we have made to the ListView control for the Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) 2.0. Here we’ll discuss performance and layouts, and offer some backstory...
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Creating a slide show for your lock screen
In Windows 8, the lock screen feature introduced a personalization option to change the single image for each user that is logged into the device. In Windows 8.1, we’ve taken personalization a step...
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Independent UK-based developer surpasses 3.5 million downloads on Windows...
I love seeing developers succeed. So when Judge Dredd vs. Zombies recently surpassed 1.55 million downloads on the Windows Phone Store, I couldn’t wait to talk with James Valls, Senior Producer at...
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Testing and debugging your geofencing apps
In a previous blog post, we talked about how to use geofences to make your apps smarter and more useful by having them respond to changes in the user’s location. With geofencing, your apps can do...
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Windows Store trends – Feb 2014 Update
This blog post is the latest in a recurring series that provides details about recent trends in the Windows Store across categories, markets, and more. Understanding these general trends can help you...
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Managing the JavaScript UI thread with the WinJS Scheduler
Apart from web workers and background tasks that run as web workers, all JavaScript code in a Windows Store app runs on what we call the UI thread. That code can invoke asynchronous WinRT APIs that...
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Writing Windows Store apps with locale-based adaptive design
The Windows architecture allows developers to create apps and easily make then available to people all around the globe. This process, known as globalization, requires that developers primarily design...
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Build apps that connect with People and Calendar, Part 1: Contact Cards
In Windows 8.1, we introduced new app-to-app contractsthat let your users easily interact with people in their address book and to integrate events into their calendar. In this two-part series we’ll...
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Build apps that connect with People and Calendar, Part 2: Appointments
In the first post of this series, we looked at one of the contracts introduced with Windows 8.1, contact cards. In this post we’ll explore how an app can work with the user’s calendar through the...
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What to Expect from Microsoft at GDC
We at Microsoft look forward to GDC as much as you do. We get to geek out with the best game developers in the world and learn how we can help you be successful. We’re always working to provide the...
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Instrumenting Your App for Telemetry and Analytics
Publishing your app through the Windows Store and the Windows Phone Store is just the first step in your app’s relationship with its customers. Certainly you hope that many customers will find and...
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Testing for accessibility in Windows Store apps
Accessibility enables people of all abilities to realize their full potential. By virtue of designing apps with assistive technology features, you can create a better experience for anyone who uses...
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Extending platform commonality through universal Windows apps
Today during our BUILD conference in San Francisco we unveiled the latest Windows software for phones, tablets, and PCs. Windows Phone 8.1 further establishes Windows Phone as the world’s most personal...
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Link your app to search results with new Bing feature
Bing just released a new app-linking feature that allows you to link your Windows and Windows Phone apps to web search results. By surfacing app links alongside web search results, app linking helps...
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Windows Store universal Windows app opportunity
Greetings from the 2014 //build/ conference! Platform commonality and consistency across devices and services has been a major theme of the start of the event. For the past several months, the Store...
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Bringing WinJS cross-platform and open source
This post was authored by Maria Kang, Program Manager, Windows Ecosystem & Frameworks Team Today the source code of the Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) is being released under the Apache 2.0...
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