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Announcing the Windows Community Toolkit Labs!
Jul 20, 2022
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Announcing the Windows Community Toolkit Labs!

Michael Hawker
Michael Hawker

In this post, we talk about the new Community Toolkit Labs for Windows as the future starting point for components in the Windows Community Toolkit.

Leveraging trimming to make the Microsoft Store faster and reduce its binary size
Jun 30, 2022
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Leveraging trimming to make the Microsoft Store faster and reduce its binary size

Sergio Pedri
Sergio Pedri

In this post, we will talk about how we restructured our codebase to minimize our use of reflection and to enable trimming, making the Microsoft Store faster and reducing its binary size

The journey of moving from C++/WinRT to C# in the Microsoft Store
May 20, 2022
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The journey of moving from C++/WinRT to C# in the Microsoft Store

Sergio Pedri
Sergio Pedri

In this post, we will talk about the journey we did to port the APIs to access Windows Package Manager in the Microsoft Store from C++/WinRT to C#

Announcing .NET Community Toolkit v8.0.0 Preview 3
Apr 7, 2022
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Announcing .NET Community Toolkit v8.0.0 Preview 3

Sergio Pedri
Sergio Pedri

In this post, we talk about all the new features and improvements the third preview version of the .NET Community Toolkit!

Announcing .NET Community Toolkit v8.0.0 Preview 1
Jan 25, 2022
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Announcing .NET Community Toolkit v8.0.0 Preview 1

Sergio Pedri
Sergio Pedri

In this post, we talk about all the new features and improvements the first preview version of the .NET Community Toolkit!

Astrophotography with Windows, Tiny PCs, and WPF
Dec 28, 2021
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Astrophotography with Windows, Tiny PCs, and WPF

Pete Brown
Pete Brown

Windows on an embedded PC, running .NET and WPF apps for Astrophotography

Building Your First UWP Application
Oct 20, 2021
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Building Your First UWP Application

Zachary Teutsch
Zachary Teutsch

This article walks through getting setup with Universal Windows Platform development and showcases how to build a fun Soundboard starter application.

Build ML powered experiences with Windows Machine Learning (WinML) and Intelligent APIs!
Oct 19, 2021
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Build ML powered experiences with Windows Machine Learning (WinML) and Intelligent APIs!

Amrutha Srinivasan
Amrutha Srinivasan

This article introduces Windows Machine Learning, an API for machine learning model inference on Windows, and then talks about a new initiative called Intelligent APIs that aims to make it easier to integrate ML workloads into modern day applications.

Get started building a Progressive Web App!
Oct 19, 2021
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Get started building a Progressive Web App!

Justin Willis
Justin Willis

Get started building a Progressive Web App! Hello fellow Web Developers! Today I want to talk about how you can use PWABuilder, an open-source project from Microsoft, Github, VSCode and Azure Static Web Apps to help you build a Progressive Web App (PWA) and then ship that PWA to both the Web AND app stores! We will be starting completely from scratch and then take our app all the way to publishing! What is a PWA? A progressive web app, or PWA for short, is a web app that uses modern web APIs to enable a true app-like experience delivered over the web. PWAs, through the usage of standard web APIs, can also ...