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Microsoft has released a yet another major update for its wizard-based extension/tool called Windows Template Studio. The latest release 1.2 brings a number of wizard improvements, template improvements as well as the process improvements. For those unfamiliar, Windows Template Studio (launched back in May 2017) is...

Microsoft is open-sourcing the Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino. In an official announcement, Microsoft shared that Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino has been open sourced on GitHub.com at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-arduino. This will provide a good development experience for Arduino developers. The extension is currently...

Microsoft has just announced the availability of first public release candidate for SQL Server 2017 RC1, and is now available for download. For customers, this means Microsoft has completed the development work for the newer version of SQL Server along most dimensions needed to bring...

Microsoft has now released yet another iteration of Windows 10 SDK for developers targeting the Fall Creators Update. Build 16232 of Windows 10 SDK is now available for download and contains bug fixes and/or under development changes to the API surface area. This release is...

If you are into development and use Visual Studio Code for your daily workflow, then Microsoft has released a major update for your favorite code editor tool as of version 1.14 for June 2017. There are a number of significant updates in this version, and...

Microsoft is introducing a new for app developers developing for the Universal Windows Platform. With this feature, an app developer can call an app directly from a command line and pass the app arbitrary command-line arguments. This is available to Insiders starting with build...

Microsoft has just released the next major update for UWP Community Toolkit with version 1.5. This update also updates all packages to version 1.5 and brings great improvements and stability to the existing controls and services. To highlight a few of the new additions, the...

Microsoft has announced .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 and is now available for download across all major platforms. In order to develop apps based on .NET Core 2.0, you should be running Visual Studio 2017 Preview 15.3, Visual Studio for Mac or VS Code. Here are...

Developers can now implement secondary tiles feature from the desktop application by leveraging the Desktop Bridge. This feature can be put to use starting with the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16199. A secondary tile provides a consistent, efficient way for users to directly access...

Remember App Studio? Well, Microsoft has taken the same approach and announced Windows Template Studio. The new Windows Template Studio provides an easy way to jump start your application project to target Universal Windows Platform, all spending just a few minutes of time. The Windows Template...

During Build 2017 keynote on day 2, Alex Kipman announced (reported earlier) that Windows Mixed Reality dev kits from Acer and HP are now available for pre-order through the Microsoft Store for developers in the US (Acer, HP) and Canada (Acer, HP). If you are...

Microsoft, at Build 2017 developer conference, announced that Windows Mixed Reality dev kits from Acer and HP are now available for pre-order. Developers, in US and Canada, can pre-order these dev kits from the Microsoft Store right now. Acer and HP are the first Mixed...