How we are improving Windows Store app catalog
Today I want to share with you adjustments we are making to Windows Store app certification policies to improve the Store experience for your customers. How we are improving Windows Store app catalogAs...
View ArticleWindows Store Payout Improvements
Continuing with the Dev Center unification, today I want to share with you payout reporting improvements rolling in the coming weeks that will unify the Windows and Windows Phone experience, provide...
View ArticleA Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 Insider Preview on MVA
We are happy to announce that the Microsoft Virtual Academy training course, A Developer’s Guide to Windows 10, is now available on demand. This video training course, delivered by experts Andy Wigley...
View ArticleDev Center account migration begins next week
Next week we will begin the migration of accounts to the new Windows Dev Center dashboard.You can expect account migration to take place in waves – starting next week and extending into July. The...
View ArticleUsing FFmpeg in Windows Applications
It is important to Microsoft that developers can leverage open-source software when building apps for Windows. As part of this effort we’re very pleased to announce FFmpeg support for Window 8.1,...
View ArticleWinJS 4.0 Released
This post was written by Josh Rennert, Program Manager, Web Apps & Frameworks teamWe received great feedback and insight from our WinJS 4.0-Preview, released earlier this year. Now, the time has...
View ArticleIntroducing srcset, our first step towards fully responsive images in...
Windows 10 Insider builds recently introduced support for srcset, our first step on the path to fully supporting the picture element for responsive images. In this post we’d like to share more about...
View ArticleHTTP Strict Transport Security comes to Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1...
In February, we released the first preview of HTTP Strict Transport Security in Internet Explorer 11 in the Windows 10 Insider Preview. The HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) policy protects against...
View ArticleCool Web Forms Features in 2015 – Async Model Binding
This is the first in a twice weekly series of blog posts that we’re going to share from the Microsoft Web Development blog to showcase some of the really cool and mature features available in ASP.NET...
View ArticleIncrease ad revenue with ad mediation
Thousands of apps in the Store today are using Windows ad mediation to increase ad revenue in Windows Phone apps. Ad mediation, as described in the launch blog post, allows you to manage multiple ad...
View ArticleRunning Cocos2d-x on Windows 10
With Microsoft’s latest open source code contribution to the Cocos2d-x project [https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/pull/12107], Microsoft has enabled Cocos2d-x to run on Windows 10 on the Universal...
View ArticleBuilding a more interoperable Web with Microsoft Edge
Over the past year the Microsoft Edge team has been hard at work on a new browser engine that will be better than ever at correctly, quickly, and reliably rendering the Web. As a user, your favorite...
View ArticleNew Microsoft Edge Test Drive web demos go open-source
We first launched the Internet Explorer Test Drive site in 2010 during the Internet Explorer 9 Preview and regularly added demos through IE10 and IE11 development as a way to help web developers get...
View ArticleBringing Marmalade SDK-based apps to Windows 10 – a step-by-step guide
With the recent release of the Marmalade Beta SDK with Windows 10 Support, apps and games built with the Marmalade SDK can now be targeted for and deployed to Windows 10 PCs or phones.In most cases,...
View ArticleGetting ready for Windows 10 – SDKs, compatibility, bridges
With Windows 10 being released July 29th, 2015, we want to update you on some new things and some things you can do to get ready now.Windows 10 SDKWe are working to deliver the Windows 10 developer...
View ArticleBuilding Flight Arcade: Behind the scenes with WebGL, WebAudio and GamePad API
During Microsoft’s //build conference day 2 keynote, we demonstrated some of the advancements in Microsoft Edge’s platform features with a new demo from Pixel Lab, Flight Arcade. Today I’d like to...
View ArticleUsing FFmpeg in Windows Applications
It is important to Microsoft that developers can leverage open-source software when building apps for Windows. As part of this effort we’re very pleased to announce FFmpeg support for Window 8.1,...
View ArticleRelease Dates and Compatibility: Visual Studio 2015 and the Windows 10 SDK
July will be a big month for developers with the releases of Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10, and the Universal Windows App Development Tools, which includes the Windows 10 SDK. The purpose of this post...
View ArticleInside Interop: How Medium Now Works on Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge was built from the ground-up with the modern web in mind. When we decided to make a “break from the past” for Windows 10, we didn’t just spend all of our time combing through complicated...
View ArticleASP.NET 5 Beta5 Now Available
This week we released ASP.NET 5 Beta5 as an in-place update to Visual Studio 2015 RC on http://nuget.org!The version that shipped with VS2015RC was Beta4 so you’ll definitely want toget this update....
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