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In its push to spur Windows 10 and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) development, Microsoft has placed a new community toolkit on the GitHub open source code repository. The UWP, introduced with ...

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 ...

Microsoft released version 2.0 of the UWP Community Toolkit, a package of helper functions, controls and services for simplifying common tasks involved in coding Universal Windows Apps for Windows 10.

Last week, Microsoft announced that Win32 games can now be published in the Microsoft Store, which prompted a series of comments regarding the death of the once-beloved Universal Windows Platform. We ...

Is Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform a stepping stone to more modern Windows 10 apps or recognition that traditional PC applications are the foundation of Windows? Windows 10 (like Windows 8 ...

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 ...

At the Build conference, Microsoft left no doubt that developers should adopt UWP if they want access to the full range of new Microsoft technology It’s full speed ahead for Microsoft’s Universal ...

The Xbox One is about to become a development platform for everyone. With this summer's anniversary update, developers creating UWPs will be able to turn their Xbox Ones into a development unit and ...

A popular UWP developer decided to make his own ad monetization platform since Microsoft is killing its own. Microsoft will shut down the Microsoft Ad Monetization platform for UWP apps on June 1, ...

This article discusses the lessons we learned developing new UWP apps and updating existing UWP applications to make them work on the HoloLens. We present UWP application design considerations to be ...