Windows 10 virtual machines now available on Microsoft Edge Dev
Today, we have updated the Microsoft Edge Dev site with major fixes and new features, including Windows 10 virtual machines with Microsoft Edge and a faster, clearer platform roadmap. With these...
View ArticleNew Windows Microsoft advertising SDK with support for Video interstitials
Today, Microsoft is releasing several important capabilities that allow you to increase ad revenue in your apps:Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK for Windows 10Support for video interstitials on...
View ArticlePreviewing our first platform updates for Microsoft Edge
Yesterday, we moved Microsoft Edge Dev out of beta, and we are now directing all traffic from status.modern.ie to our new Platform Status page, which has significant improvements to performance and...
View ArticleEngaging customers with Live Tiles and toast notifications (10 by 10)
Last week, we talked about how you can do three things to get your apps discovered and launched by Windows 10 customers. This week, we’d like to continue with how to increase customer engagement...
View ArticleASP.NET Community Standup - August 18, 2015
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of...
View Article.NET Native – What it means for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) developers
This blog was written by Daniel Jacobson, Program ManagerWhat is .NET Native?.NET Native is a precompilation technology for building Universal Windows apps in Visual Studio 2015. The .NET Native...
View ArticleUsing promotional codes for your apps: a walkthrough and suggested uses
On July 29, we launched a highly requested new feature in Dev Center: promotional codes. Today I want to share more details about this feature, how and when to best use it.Promotional codes enable...
View ArticleUsing Cortana to interact with your customers (10 by 10)
This week’s theme in our Windows 10 by 10 development series is extending customer engagement using the Windows 10 without your users even entering your app. Last week’s topic, Live Tiles and...
View ArticleHow Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 work better...
Last month, we launched a brand new browser built for Windows 10, Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge has been built from the ground up to correctly, quickly, and reliably render web pages, and improve...
View ArticleNew advertising and campaign tracking capabilities for Windows Store apps
Microsoft is releasing two new Dev Center features to simplify and streamline management of ads-in-apps as well as releasing the campaign tracking feature that we announced earlier:pubCenter...
View ArticleCreating your own browser with HTML and JavaScript
Over the past several months, we have made numerous improvements to the Microsoft Edge rendering engine (Microsoft EdgeHTML), focusing on interoperability with modern browsers and compliance with new...
View ArticleNew Windows Microsoft advertising SDK with support for Video interstitials
Today, Microsoft is releasing several important capabilities that allow you to increase ad revenue in your apps:Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK for Windows 10Support for video interstitials on...
View ArticleUpdate to Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 video series
What better way to get up to speed with building Universal Windows apps than to immerse yourself in the updated Microsoft Virtual Academy training course, the Developer’s Guide to Windows 10, led by...
View ArticleMake your app look great on any size screen or window (10 by 10)
With the Universal Windows Platform in Windows 10, your apps will now run on a number of device families and automatically scale across the different screen and window sizes, supported by the platform...
View ArticleEnding support for the RC4 cipher in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11
Today, Microsoft is announcing the end-of-support of the RC4 cipher in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11. Starting in early 2016, the RC4 cipher will be disabled by-default and will not be used...
View ArticleAnnouncing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta7
ASP.NET 5 beta7 is now available both on NuGet and as a tooling update to Visual Studio 2015! This release also includes the first public preview of the .NET Execution Environment (DNX) for Mac and...
View ArticleAJAX Control Toolkit Critical Update
Our friends at DevExpress have been hard at work on the AJAX Control toolkit and have an update available that should be installed to cover a critical security vulnerability that has existed prior to...
View ArticleNew sensor features in Windows 10
This blog was written by Rinku Sreedhar, Senior Program ManagerIn Windows 10 we added a multiple new sensor features, innovations and changes. In my previous blog, I talked about the new contextual...
View ArticleIntroducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview
We are very pleased to announce ASP.NET WebHooks preview as a new addition to the ASP.NET family. WebHooks is a lightweight HTTP pattern providing a simple pub/sub model for wiring together Web APIs...
View ArticleIntegrating with Slack Using ASP.NET WebHooks Preview
In the blog Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview, we gave an overview of how to work with Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks. Slack provides an interesting model where you can set up a WebHook to be...
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