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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has introduced an open-source UWP Community Toolkit that enables the developer ...

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There’s a common question that’s asked any time a company rolls out a new set of SDKs or APIs: “How do I get started?” That’s not the real question, of course. At heart, it’s a placeholder for a more ...

Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step toward locking down the currently open ...

Writing Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that rely on inter-process communication is actually easy. Debugging and making them fault-tolerant is the tricky part, but it can be done with the ...

Microsoft unveiled its vision for "unifying and evolving" the Windows developer platform this week with the launch of Project Reunion. Announced during the Microsoft Build virtual event, the project ...

Chatbots are the new mobile application. In this article, Nick demonstrates how you can integrate a bot right into your Universal Windows Platform app via the Microsoft Bot Framework Direct Line API.

Although the Channel 9 app for Windows hasn't received much love in recent months, today's update debuts a new app made specifically for Windows 10. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

There’s a lot of old Win32s, WinForms, and WPF code out there, and now Microsoft plans to make it easy to bring it to Windows 10’s UWP Platform transitions are hard, moving from silicon to silicon or ...

I'm curious how much of these problems are caused by the design goal of protecting the security of the app store. They seem to have requirements that an app must always phone home to get verified, ...