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Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 makes it easy to modernize your desktop application and make it store ready Last year with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we introduced the Desktop Bridge to provide desktop applications a path to modernize with the Universal Windows Platform, and to distribute via the Windows Store and the Microsoft Store for Business to all Windows 10 PCs, including devices that are running the Windows 10 S configuration. The primary developer tool at the time was the Desktop App Converter, a tool that converts your current app installer into a Windows app package (.appx file), which can be submitted to the Windows Store or deployed via your distribution mechanism of choice. With Update 4 for Visual Studio 2017 we now have great support directly in Visual Studio for your Windows desktop application projects (WPF, Winforms, Win32, [ more… ]

Adobe XD CC: A New High-Performance UWP App for UI/UX Design It’s a big day today – after a year of public preview, Adobe released Adobe XD 1.0 on Windows 10 and Mac: a new tool for user experience creators to design, prototype and share interactive designs for apps and websites. When it comes to designing anything, it’s important to have design tools that support a fast and fluid process – one where you can iterate rapidly through a design, test, and build process: designing at the speed of thought. For interaction design, creative professionals have often used tools that excel at creating images of screens, but these tools that created static images have always missed something: transitions and interactions that demonstrate the experience. Putting an interactive prototype in front of stakeholders that they can try out is now a crucial part [ more… ]

News from Adobe MAX 2017: Photoshop, Surface, and the future of creativity We build Surface for people whose ideas are their currency. We want to empower people to create without limits by designing Surface to disappear into the background so that creators can immerse in their creative process. Whether it’s the high-resolution PixelSense displays that serve as a beautiful canvas, or tools like touch, Surface Pen and Surface Dial that keep you in your creative workflow and allow you to work more intuitively, Surface is meant to be a stage for your ideas. When artists begin the process of creation, it’s likely they turn to Adobe Creative Cloud to serve as their toolbox, which is one reason why the latest wave of innovation from Adobe is exciting. Another reason is that some of the latest features align with what we [ more… ]

11 Windows PCs that light up the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update The PCs we’re sharing today range in a variety of form factors and price points, so whether you’re an artist, student, or gamer, there’s a device for you. Purchasing a new Windows PC is a great way to take advantage of all the new features in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Microsoft Store can help with free workshops and personalized assistance to get your PC set up. To learn more about what’s new in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, visit this blog post. 11 Windows PCs that light up the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Acer Spin 5 Acer Predator 21 X ASUS Zenbook Flip S UX370 ASUS Transformer Mini T102HA (Available at Best Buy, com or Amazon) Dell Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 Dell XPS [ more… ]

Documenting the Web together Today, we’re excited to share some big news for developers around the world wide web: We’re committing our resources towards making MDN Web Docs the best place to go for web API reference. To kick things off, today we started redirecting over 7,700 MSDN pages to corresponding topics in the MDN web docs library powered by Mozilla. In conjunction with similar commitments from Mozilla, Google, the W3C, and Samsung, we’re teaming up to make MDN Web Docs the best place for web developers to learn and share information about building for the open web. MDN is a core part of Mozilla’s overarching mission: to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. We believe providing web developers the best possible information will enable them to deliver great web experiences that adhere [ more… ]