Another update to the Windows Community Toolkit has arrived, packed with a myriad of enhancements and new features under version 7.1. As always these feature and enhancements are made possible thanks to the help and contributions of the dotnet developer ... Read more
This is a four part piece feature story on my Windows Development journey; the good, bad and ugly. This is the final Part 4 of my Windows development journey which focuses on how Windows app development has changed, and what ... Read more
This is a four part piece feature story on my Windows Development journey; the good, bad and ugly. This is Part 3 of my Windows development journey with the ugly launch of my latest and final UWP game, The House ... Read more
This is a four part piece article is a feature story on my Windows Development journey; the good, bad and ugly. This is Part 2 of my bad Windows development journey with the launch of failed two video games from ... Read more
This is a four part piece feature story on my Windows Development journey; the good, bad and ugly. This is Part 1 of my Windows development journey with the launch of Topen News Hub to Central News app. I have ... Read more
Microsoft has long been known as the king of mixed signals. The last 20 years was filled with contradictions, shifting focus and priorities. so when Microsoft announced they were working on a next generation operating system, the development community was ... Read more
Microsoft's Edge team continues to make transitioning from Google's Chrome browser over to their new Chromium-based browser easier. A tip from Redditor u/Leopeva64-2 shows that further customizations and functionality for the new Edge have been baked into the native Settings ... Read more
Microsoft plans to roll out access to the Project Reunion platform in waves with the first being early-access to WinUI 3 Preview 1
As a PWA, users should experience a shortened feature release cycle as per other PWA's on the platform
In what will surely feed the ongoing “UWP is dead” narrative, Microsoft has quietly announced its plan to shut down its Ad Monetization platform for UWP apps on June 1, 2020.
2019 has been a pretty exciting year for Microsoft fans, but I think 2020 should also be a year where Microsoft simplifies its Surface lineup, and pay more attention to its various consumer services, especially on mobile devices.
Apple could now be planning on working on a series of next-generation media apps for Windows.
You can't really talk about UWP, Microsoft's "universal platform platform" without touching on the "is it dead?" controversy. As we said before, it's really a tale of two UWPs, one, a family of APIs that introduce new abilities like "BackgroundTasks, ... Read more
Microsoft's iconography change has been met with equal parts criticism and praise
It seems like almost every day a new framework or tool is released in the quest to help developers be more productive. While diversity is never a bad thing, a lot of times it feels we are trying hard to ... Read more
While users will get a new Xbox app with better game-related integration such as chat and download features, the app apparently will be a rather heavy piece of software.
With only a brief hands-on experience, the app feels swift, well thought and makes very good use of animations, overlays and acrylic highlights in its windowed presentation.
Paul Thurrott wrote about it in early May, and the news coming from Phil Spencer that Win32 games will soon become available in the Windows Store prompted Tom Warren at The Verge to say the same thing today: UWP is ... Read more
Spencer pens a rather detailed announcement about the future of cross-platform and cross-network play that gamers can expect to see down the road
In an interview with The Verge, Corporate Vice President in the Experiences and Devices division at Microsoft, Joe Belfiore opened up about how the company came to the decision to shutter its in-house web browsing development for an off-the-shelf approach to its new one.
A new app from the Microsoft Garage Project studios emerged in the Store recently called XAML Studio which was released to help "rapidly prototype UWP XAML" projects and copied for further development using Visual Studio.