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Windows Community Toolkit Labs Experiments are Here!

November 9, 2022 Nov 9, 2022 11/9/22

Michael Hawker

In this post, we talk about the new Windows Community Toolkit Labs and some initial experiments that we're looking for feedback on.

Announcing the Windows Community Toolkit Labs!

July 20, 2022 Jul 20, 2022 07/20/22

Michael Hawker

In this post, we talk about the new Community Toolkit Labs for Windows as the future starting point for components in the Windows Community Toolkit.

Leveraging trimming to make the Microsoft Store faster and reduce its binary size

June 30, 2022 Jun 30, 2022 06/30/22

Sergio Pedri

In this post, we will talk about how we restructured our codebase to minimize our use of reflection and to enable trimming, making the Microsoft Store faster and reducing its binary size

The journey of moving from C++/WinRT to C# in the Microsoft Store

May 20, 2022 May 20, 2022 05/20/22

Sergio Pedri

In this post, we will talk about the journey we did to port the APIs to access Windows Package Manager in the Microsoft Store from C++/WinRT to C#

Announcing .NET Community Toolkit v8.0.0 Preview 3

April 7, 2022 Apr 7, 2022 04/7/22

Sergio Pedri

In this post, we talk about all the new features and improvements the third preview version of the .NET Community Toolkit!

Announcing .NET Community Toolkit v8.0.0 Preview 1

January 25, 2022 Jan 25, 2022 01/25/22

Sergio Pedri

In this post, we talk about all the new features and improvements the first preview version of the .NET Community Toolkit!

Astrophotography with Windows, Tiny PCs, and WPF

December 28, 2021 Dec 28, 2021 12/28/21

Pete Brown

Windows on an embedded PC, running .NET and WPF apps for Astrophotography

Building Your First UWP Application

October 20, 2021 Oct 20, 2021 10/20/21

Zachary Teutsch

This article walks through getting setup with Universal Windows Platform development and showcases how to build a fun Soundboard starter application.

Build ML powered experiences with Windows Machine Learning (WinML) and Intelligent APIs!

October 19, 2021 Oct 19, 2021 10/19/21

Amrutha Srinivasan

This article introduces Windows Machine Learning, an API for machine learning model inference on Windows, and then talks about a new initiative called Intelligent APIs that aims to make it easier to integrate ML workloads into modern day applications.

Get started building a Progressive Web App!

October 19, 2021 Oct 19, 2021 10/19/21

Justin Willis

Get started building a Progressive Web App! Hello fellow Web Developers! Today I want to talk about how you can use PWABuilder, an open-source project from Microsoft, Github, VSCode and Azure Static Web Apps to help you build a Progressive Web App (PWA) and then ship that PWA to both the Web AND app stores! We will be starting completely from...