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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17661 Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17661 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring in addition to those who opted in to Skip Ahead. Going forward, Insiders in the Fast ring and in Skip Ahead will receive the same RS5 builds. What’s new in Build 17661 A modern snipping experience Today we’re taking the first step toward converging our snipping experiences. The new modern snipping experience is here to help you effortlessly capture and annotate what you see on your screen. While working on this we’ve been carefully going over all your feedback about taking screenshots in Windows – you’ll find the flow and tools are optimized for sharing and make communicating visually with others quick and easy. What to expect once you update to this [ more… ]

Bringing Screen Capture to Microsoft Edge with the Media Capture API Beginning with the EdgeHTML 17, Microsoft Edge is the first browser to support Screen Capture via the Screen Capture API. Web developers can start building on this feature today by upgrading to the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, or using one of our free virtual machines. Screen Capture uses the new getDisplayMedia API specified by the W3C Web Real-Time Communications Working Group The feature lets web pages capture output of a user’s display device, commonly used to broadcast a desktop for plugin-free virtual meetings or presentations. Using Media Capture, Microsoft Edge can capture all Windows applications–including including Win32 and Universal Windows Platform applications (UWP apps). In this post, we’ll walk through how Screen Capture is implemented in Microsoft Edge, and what’s on our roadmap for future releases, as well [ more… ]

Announcing a new name for the UWP Community Toolkit: Windows Community Toolkit I’m really excited to announce, starting with the next major release, the UWP Community Toolkit will have a new name – the Windows Community Toolkit. This is a huge milestone for the toolkit and the community that has made this project possible. The toolkit was first released over a year and a half ago with 26 different features. Since then, we’ve added five new packages over nine new releases, each one adding new controls, helpers, services, extensions, object models and more – most coming from the community directly. Today, there are over 100 distinct features. Just compare the number of controls (and categories) in the sample app from the initial release: UWP Community Toolkit Sample App (v1.0) UWP Community Toolkit Sample App (v2.2) When we initially released the [ more… ]

Windows 10 Tip: Choose a photo for your account Simply select Start, Settings, Accounts and then Your info. Under Create your picture, select Browse for one. In case you missed it, head over here for five keyboard shortcuts you may not know about! Source: Windows 10 Tip: Choose a photo for your account

The 3 improvements to Dev Center you should know about We’ve been working hard on Windows Dev Center and wanted to share some of the improvements we’ve made for you, our developers. You can now submit PWAs to the Microsoft Store First, we’re excited to announce that you can submit your Progressive Web App (PWA) to the Microsoft Store through Windows Dev Center. PWAs are web apps, progressively enhanced with modern web technologies to provide a more app-like experience. Publishing a PWA to the Microsoft Store give you full access to everything Windows Dev Center has to offer including control over how your app appears in the Microsoft Store, the ability to view and respond to feedback (reviews and comments), insights into telemetry (installs, crashes, shares, etc.), and the ability to monetize your app. Submitting a PWA to the Microsoft Store requires [ more… ]