We want to directly thank each of the users of Windows App Studio and we want to be sure you have a smooth transition off when Windows App Studio service ends on December 1, 2017. What will happen to App Studio afterwards? Windows Template Studio is the evolution of Windows App Studio. We took our learnings from the code generation engine and the existing wizard to provide a strong foundation for our code generation and developer experience in Windows Template Studio. Best of all, it is open source over at http://aka.ms/wts.
Details on the transition
Windows App Studio has been a free, online app creation tool that allowed enthusiasts and developers to quickly build complete Windows Universal Apps. Applications using Windows App Studio then could also be downloaded, extended and compiled with Visual Studio and submitted to the Windows Dev Center.
Any user of Windows App Studio will need to download your projects and data prior to December 1, 2017.
We’ll provide multiple email communications with users between now and December 1, 2017, but we want to be upfront and clear that you have a path forward to continue building great apps for Windows 10. We’re doing a phased approach with the sun setting process. Here are the three critical dates:
- July 15, 2017
- Only existing users can sign in
- Finished application projects can be downloaded
- No new dynamic collections data sources allowed to be created
- Dynamic data will be allowed to be downloaded with a migration path provided
- September 15, 2017
- Application editor will stop working
- Dynamic collections API will stop providing data to your existing applications
- December 1, 2017
- Windows App Studio will be shut down
Once again, we want to thank each of the users of Windows App Studio, and we view the smooth transition for users critical.