When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At Build, Microsoft demoed a tool dubbed Project Centennial that lets developers convert desktop ...

MSIX: One installer to rule them all. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. During its Developer Day event today, Microsoft announced a ...

There are many potential options when it comes to building cross-platform applications. They offer varying level of code reuse and usually an inverse level of device capabilities. The tools offered by ...

Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform—a toolset that allows developers to streamline software to run on any Windows 10 device—is flexible. With it, any Xbox One owner will be able to flip a switch ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The team behind the third-party Pokémon Go Windows 10 Mobile app PoGo-UWP have issued a warning ...

Windows app developers who are coding their projects for UWP (Universal Windows Platform) have been nudged by Microsoft to abandon that platform and use WinUI 3 instead. However, some developers ...

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Microsoft has disabled the App Installer functionality that allowed Windows 10 apps to be installed directly from a web page by clicking on a link that used the ms-appinstaller URI scheme. This ...

Microsoft has released the open-source Windows Package Manager for developers and general users to install applications on Windows 10. The Windows Package Manager service and the winget.exe ...

Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney stirred the hornet’s nest at Microsoft last week when he denounced the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) in an op-ed for The Guardian, criticizing it as “a closed ...

It tried to plant an installer for the Chrome browser but was quickly booted from the store. A Chrome engineer complained that Microsoft 'denies Chrome the tools it needs to protect users' to explain ...