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Microsoft’s app store changes crank up the Apple pressure Tom Warren Microsoft shook up the PC gaming industry this week with the announcement that it was cutting the fee it takes from game sales on the Windows store. On the surface, it’s a welcome move, with Microsoft matching the 12 percent cut that Epic Games takes, and putting more pressure on Valve, which still takes a 30 percent cut on most Steam purchases. But the cut is also a tactical move: Microsoft wants to help p...

BlazorWebView arrives on desktop applications. Too convoluted? Tim Anderson Tue 13 Apr 2021 // 08:30 UTC Share Copy Microsoft has shipped preview 3 of its forthcoming .NET 6 framework with a bunch of updates including the addition of Windows desktop to its Multi-platform App UI (MAUI). As the first long-term support version of the supposedly unified framework, .NET 6.0 is expected to be completed in November. Like .NET 5.0, it is no longer designated .NET Core, though it...

If you thought that all developers had moved on from Windows 10 Mobile, think again. There's a UWP Pinterest app that's still receiving updates in 2021.

| Microsoft inches closer to unified Windows SDK The latest preview bits of Microsoft’s Project Reunion for building Windows 10 desktop applications are ready for testing and even for production. Microsoft Although the 0.5 release has production support for a subset of its planned APIs and just one of its intended development targets, Microsoft is encouraging developers to get started porting apps to the new platform. Project Reunion won’t be the only way to get acces...

Microsoft has refactored numerous packages in order to decouple dependencies when only a small number of components are being utilized in the app. In most scenarios, this has resulted in an 80-90% decrease in footprint size of the application. Most of these changes affect the Animations and Controls packages, so it is advisable that developers refer to Microsofts documentation here in order to identify any breaking changes to their apps. Windows Community Toolkit v7.0 also comes with a new MVVM...

Project Reunion 0.5 Preview provides unified set of APIs and tools for building desktop apps that target a broad set of Windows 10 OS versions

Should you use Remote Desktop Connection, the Remote Desktop app, or MSRDC Windows Desktop to access Windows 10 PCs remotely? We detail the options and provide some troubleshooting tips in case things go wrong.

Developers adopting latest and greatest will have to tangle with XAML Tim Anderson Mon 15 Mar 2021 // 17:45 UTC Share Copy Microsoft has released its second preview of .NET 6, but confirmed there will be no visual designer for WinUI 3.0 when it comes out in November this year. WinUI 3.0 is intended to be the primary official framework for Windows desktop applications. Microsofts .NET 6 is the first long-term release of its revamped development platform for running C#, F#...

So hows that UWP thing working out for you? Richard Speed Fri 12 Mar 2021 // 14:19 UTC Share Copy Axe-happy Redmond has set the clock ticking on paid apps from its moribund Microsoft Store for Business and Education. The changes will be imposed from 14 April and the software giant has also demanded that an Azure Active Directory account be used for browsing – no more anonymous nosing. A wander through the support sections for the store confirmed that while users who ha...

At Build 2020, Microsoft today announced Project Reunion, a new project to make app development easier for Windows 10 platform. Project Reunion unifies access to existing Win32 (legacy Windows API) and UWP (Universal Windows Platform) APIs and make them available decoupled from the OS