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Catch up on October’s most-read stories on MSN The Microsoft News team has a mission to keep the world informed, with nearly half a billion people coming to MSN and Microsoft Edge every month to find out what’s going on around the globe. Each day, Microsoft News editors work with more than 1,000 premium publishing partners (such as “The New York Times,” “Fox News,” “USA Today” and “Sports Illustrated”) to curate the best news and high-quality, credible journalism across a variety of topics so that readers get the latest news. Each month, MSN will publish a list of its most-read news stories “in order to share what our readers are drawn to and allow you to catch up on stories you may have missed.” Head over to The Microsoft News Blog to check out the five most-read stories for October. [ more… ]

XAML Islands – A deep dive – Part 2 Welcome to the 2nd post of our Xaml Islands deep dive adventure! On the first blog post, we talked a little bit about the history of this amazing feature, how the Xaml Islands infrastructure works and how to use it, and also a little bit of how you can leverage binding in your Island controls. On this second blog post, we’ll take a quick look on how to use the wrappers NuGet packages and how to host your custom controls inside Win32 Apps. Wrappers Creating custom wrappers around UWP controls can be a cumbersome task, and you probably don’t want to do that. For simple things such as Buttons, it should be fine, but the moment you want to wrap complex controls, it can take a long time. To make things [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18277 Happy Diwali for the Indian Windows Insiders who are celebrating! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18277 (19H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. REMINDER: As is normal with builds early in the development cycle, builds may contain bugs that might be painful for some. If this makes you uncomfortable, you may want to consider switching to the Slow ring. Slow ring builds will continue to be higher quality. If you are. looking for a complete look at what build is in which Insider ring – head on over to Flight Hub. You can also check out the rest of our documentation here including a complete list of new features and updates that have gone out as part of Insider flights for the current development cycle (which currently is [ more… ]

Updated Shopping Cart and Wish List coming to the Microsoft Store We work hard to improve the shopping experience in the Microsoft Store, and are always looking for ways to improve the discoverability and purchase of the products and services we sell.  Today, we are excited to announce that customers can begin using our improved Shopping Cart and later this week, our new Wish List – two of the most-requested features from our fans. Shopping Cart As we mentioned previously, we’ve extended the existing Shopping Cart to work with games and apps for the Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs.  Today, the feature is once again available for testing.  Whether you’re shopping for games or apps for Xbox One and/or Windows 10 PCs, hardware or accessories, the improved Shopping Cart means you only have to go through checkout once. How [ more… ]