When you install or run certain applications on Windows, you may see a prompt asking you to install the Windows Desktop Runtime. What is Windows Desktop Runtime? Why is it needed? Is it safe? Let’s ...

Happy Friday! With the annual developer season finally winding down, we can turn our attention to more pertinent matters. Like the over/under on whether Xbox will ever be successful and when, if ever, ...

A mini-app for viewing and editing image files, demonstrating XAML layout, data binding, and UI customization features for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. Note - This sample is targeted and ...

Iron Software builds trusted .NET libraries for document automation. Full disclosure: We're the developer relations team at Iron Software, the company behind IronQR, one of the libraries in this ...

A Key storage Provider (KSP) library is important in signing ClickOnce manifest with Visual Studio when you require a greater level of key protection and a state of the art cryptography. I have ...

An AI-generated Petzold-style Notepad, a new Windows App SDK tutorial, a title bar experiment, and a cleaner text box kept me busy this past week. Picking up on the latest outrage over nothing in the ...

Microsoft hat heute einen Artikel unter der KB5072911 bereitgestellt, der sich um die Probleme mit Apps, dem Datei Explorer, Startmenü und mehr befasst. Diese Probleme können mit der Installation der ...

你还在为手动点点点测试Windows应用而感到膝盖疼？更愁于自动化测试工具价格贵得让钱包瑟瑟发抖？今天，我要给你安利一款“野路子有余，正经事儿也能干”的.NET UI自动化神器——FlaUI！

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In context: Microsoft recently gave us a taste of Start menu widgets with Phone Link – the Windows-Android syncing utility – scoring some handy real estate. That's far from the only widget you'll be ...