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Windows 10 Tip: Organize your Start files with new tile folders Happy Monday! Today, we’re going to show you how you can organize your Start files with tile folders, new to Windows 10 with the Windows 10 Creators Update. Here’s how to get started: Simply click and drag one icon onto another to create a tile folder with both. Then, you can add any other icons you’d like by dragging them onto the folder, or resize it by right-clicking on it. Have a great week! Source: Windows 10 Tip: Organize your Start files with new tile folders

Toolkits, Toolkits, Toolkits! As a UWP developer, you have many options to help build your application quickly and reliably. In fact, there are so many options that you may feel like you can choose only one. Luckily, that’s not the case, and many toolkits complement each other in various ways. Today, we’ll talk about two open source toolkits: UWP Community Toolkit Telerik UI for UWP Both are open source, but each has different strengths. These two particular toolkits can bring tools and controls for a variety of application scenarios. Let’s start by introducing the toolkits and how they can help. UWP Community Toolkit The UWP Community Toolkit is the ultimate collaboration between Microsoft and the UWP developer community. With dozens of features such as helper functions, custom UI components, animations and app services, the UWP Community toolkit is a great [ more… ]

A note about the unintentional release of builds today Hello Windows Insiders! Many of you discovered that earlier this afternoon, builds from some of our internal branches were accidentally released for PC and Mobile. This happened because an inadvertent deployment to the engineering system that controls which builds/which rings to push out to insiders. The team was quick to revert the deployment and put blocks in place to stop these builds from going out to more people. Our analysis shows only a small portion of folks got these builds. For those of you who received one of these builds on your devices – please read the following: If you received this build (from RS_EDGE_CASE) on your PC: Please be aware that this build was never intended to go out to Windows Insiders and may include issues that impact usability of [ more… ]

Join educators from around the world as we Hack the Classroom on June 27! This year’s Hack the Classroom event will be streaming live from the floor at ISTE, bringing thousands of educators from around the world the latest tips & tricks to empower students to create the world of tomorrow. Join us June 27, from 5:30 p.m. CDT to 7:30 p.m. CDT, for an exciting, online, live event to help ignite new ideas and show what’s possible when you bring technology into the classroom.   Hack the Classroom is an event to empower educators to incorporate new ideas and tools into the classroom. Hack the Classroom will feature classroom hacks from educators, discussions from inspiring thought leaders, and resources to help you get started. The key is to start with just a few small steps! Click here to register [ more… ]