One of the hardest challenges of mobile development is how to minimize the cost of building the same application for multiple platforms. Nick shows how to use Xamarin.Forms to develop a cross-platform ...

Windows 11 and Windows 10 come loaded with several UWP or Microsoft Store apps. The Microsoft News, Weather, Calculator, Windows Mail, and other applications are based on Microsoft’s modern UWP ...

Among the many announcements at its Build 2016 developer conference last week, Microsoft revealed the Desktop App Converter, the main component in its Project Centennial bridge to turn Win32 desktop ...

Writing Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that rely on inter-process communication is actually easy. Debugging and making them fault-tolerant is the tricky part, but it can be done with the ...

Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step toward locking down the currently open ...

About a month ago, Microsoft announced that it would be releasing an ARM64 SDK at its Build 2018 developer conference. Today, the firm announced that the SDK is indeed available as part of the Visual ...

Is Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform a stepping stone to more modern Windows 10 apps or recognition that traditional PC applications are the foundation of Windows? Windows 10 (like Windows 8 ...

Malicious programs are constantly finding new ways to harm or damage devices. Seeing these things, it would always be reasonable to get apps in the Appx file format that is used by Universal Windows ...

At the Build conference, Microsoft left no doubt that developers should adopt UWP if they want access to the full range of new Microsoft technology It’s full speed ahead for Microsoft’s Universal ...

Microsoft unveiled its vision for "unifying and evolving" the Windows developer platform this week with the launch of Project Reunion. Announced during the Microsoft Build virtual event, the project ...