There’s a common question that’s asked any time a company rolls out a new set of SDKs or APIs: “How do I get started?” That’s not the real question, of course. At heart, it’s a placeholder for a more ...

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Microsoft has developed a platform for enabling Windows applications to be shared even for devices of different sizes and specificationsUniversal Windows platform(UWP) "has been released. This is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the biggest problems Microsoft faces is how to make Windows an attractive platform for developers again. It’s easy to put a web front end on a cloud-native application that supports desktop and ...

Nick Randolph pulls apart the lifecycle of a Windows 10 application and reveals what goes on programmatically when users launch, switch between and close Windows 10 apps. Windows 10 represents the ...

The Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) library provides a set of algorithms to enable parallelism in C++ applications. It is highly portable and supports multiple platforms, including the ...

If when you try to launch a UWP app on Windows 11/10, you notice your installed security software has blocked it from opening or starting, then this post is intended to help you. In it, we will ...