In Vernor Vinge’s science fiction novel A Deepness in the Sky, one of the characters works as a software archaeologist, mining thousands of years of code and libraries to find the solutions to ...

Microsoft is trying to make Windows app development feel a lot less painful. This week, the company unveiled winapp, a new open-source command-line tool designed to cut through the setup, packaging, ...

Microsoft is holding its Ignite 2023 conference right now, and it just unveiled a new "Windows AI Studio" experience for developers looking to build AI-powered apps and experiences on Windows 11. The ...

What tech should a .NET coder use for a new Windows desktop app when presented with a dizzying array of options that include .NET MAUI, WinUI, WinForms, WPF, UWP, Blazor and so on? We've investigated ...

Microsoft shipped Windows Community Toolkit v8.2, an incremental update to the open-source collection of helper functions and other resources designed to simplify the development of Windows ...

Microsoft has announced the release of its latest Windows App SDK 1.2 enabling developers and enthusiasts to create widgets for the Windows 11 widget board, using the most modern WinUI controls. These ...

One of the additions to the Windows 11 2023 Update is the "Dev Home" app, which is a tool that includes everything you need to configure a computer quickly for a new development project. Usually, for ...

Microsoft’s new UWP-friendly tools bridge the gap between the old and the new worlds of .NET to help old code into the latest .NET stack. Microsoft’s journey to today’s Windows App SDK and Win UI as a ...