That software development kit is used in the likes of the stock Photos app in Windows 11, or Phone Link, but apps leveraging the SDK can often exhibit sluggish behavior when loading, or in terms of ...

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 ...

Over the past few years, Microsoft has been pushing to migrate UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps to the newer Windows App SDK. The transition hasn’t been completely smooth, though, and the company ...

With the transition to the Windows App SDK and WinUI 3, I'm renaming .NETpad to WinUIpad and reimplementing the code base in ...

Since restarting my app as WinUIpad last week, I’ve made two major additions to the code, one of which I’m quite happy with.

Microsoft is previewing UWP (Universal Windows Platform) support for .NET 9, providing a path for existing UWP developers to modernize their apps with the latest .NET and Native AOT. That's being done ...

Windows has rolled out a new generation dev kit for developers in the Windows ecosystem. Windows Dev Kit 2023 is said to be an ARM-powered device “built by Windows developers for Windows developers.” ...

Announced at the May 2024 launch of Arm-powered Copilot+ PCs, the Windows Copilot Runtime is at the heart of Microsoft’s push to bring AI inferencing out from Azure and on to the edge and our laptops.

Cutting corners: A new tool is leveraging the capabilities of the Windows App SDK and WinUI 3 API to deliver a "comprehensive enhancement" to the Windows 11 user interface. Rebound 11 aims to bring ...