Microsoft Interface Definition Language (MIDL) is a simplified, modern syntax for declaring Windows Runtime types inside Interface Definition Language (IDL) files (.idl files). It is a particularly convenient way to declare C++/WinRT runtime In this video, Larry Osterman, lead developer on the COM team in… Read more
The Windows Community Toolkit recently reached over 1 million downloads across all nuget This is a very big milestone for the community and I’m very excited to announce yet another major update to the Windows Community Toolkit, version With the… Read more
I’m excited to announce the largest update to the Windows Community Toolkit yet, version As announced a few weeks ago, we recently changed the name of the community toolkit to better align with all Windows developers, and today we are… Read more
I'm really excited to announce, starting with the next major release, the UWP Community Toolkit will have a new name - the Windows Community This is a huge milestone for the toolkit and the community that has made this project… Read more
With the next release of Windows, developers will be able to evaluate trained machine learning models locally on Windows 10 devices, allowing developers to use pre-trained models within their applications with hardware-accelerated performance by leveraging the device's CPU or GPU… Read more
I am extremely excited to announce the latest update of the UWP Community Toolkit, The credit for this release, as always, goes to the community, who have continued to support and improve the toolkit for each introduces a new Parsers… Read more
BabylonJS is a very powerful JavaScript framework for building 3D apps and games with web standards, used by game developers to build some amazing experiences that can run on any platform and This includes Windows Mixed Reality and VR platforms such as… Read more
Building experiences for the Surface Hub requires developers to tailor their apps for the big screen and multiple users interacting with different components at the same Gian Paolo Santopaolo came to Redmond all the way from Switzerland to share best practices for… Read more
Jeff Burtoft from the Web Apps team at Microsoft dropped by to share how web apps on Windows have evolved, all the way from regular web sites, to packaged web apps in Windows 8, Hosted Web Apps in Windows 10, and finally… Read more
Lottie is a client library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders them natively on the Alexandre maintains the UWP port of the library (LottieUWP), and stopped by to discuss why developers should use Lottie over other formats… Read more
