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Microsoft Store Open Source Series — AppServices library
Looking for ways to empower your UWP app beyond what you thought was possible? Today, we're going to show you how to leverage the AppServices library we built for the Microsoft Store to unlock the power of Win32 APIs. Plus, we have a new source generator which makes using app services a piece of cake! 🍰 This is part of our new "Microsoft Store Open Source Series" of blog posts, expanding on our prior posts about the new Microsoft Store for Windows — reducing binary size with trimming, and migrating from C++/WinRT to C#. The Microsoft Store Open Source Series In our previous blog posts, we used the Micros...
Introducing the Microsoft Store channel on Discord
This post was co-authored with Priyanka Gupta Kankane ( on Discord), Senior Program Manager in the Microsoft Store services team. We are excited to announce the launch of the channel on Discord, a dedicated space where you can connect, engage, and share feedback on everything related to the Microsoft Store app, website, Partner Center, MSIX packaging, and AppInstaller. It's time to get your questions answered and join the conversation! 🎉 This channel is part of the UWP Community Discord server, a place that connects Windows App users, creators and engineers from around the world. If you don't have Disco...
The Windows Community Toolkit 2023 Update
It's been a pretty busy year for the Windows Community Toolkit (WCT), even though you may not realize it! We wanted to share what we've been working on, why it's important, where things are at, and how you can help! If you're new to the Toolkits, you can find an introduction video to them here. In 2022, we announced the Windows Community Toolkit Labs as the starting point for all new components in the Toolkit itself (see our previous article for some of these). It was also for us to test a whole new infrastructure for building the Windows Community Toolkit. Now, with a single-codebase we can write a com...
Windows Community Toolkit Labs Experiments are Here!
In this post, we talk about the new Windows Community Toolkit Labs and some initial experiments that we're looking for feedback on.
Announcing the Windows Community Toolkit Labs!
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
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
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
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
In this post, we talk about all the new features and improvements the first preview version of the .NET Community Toolkit!