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ICYMI – Your weekly TL;DR

2017-02-11 KENNETH 0

ICYMI – Your weekly TL;DR What a week! In addition to the Windows Developer Day – Creators Update that took over our feeds on Wednesday, we also released a new Insider Preview, Docs.Microsoft.com, and the Project Rome Android SDK. That’s not even all! Take a look below to see a few of the many updates from this past week. Catch up on Windows Developer Day Watch, re-watch, or even binge-watch all of the #WindowsDevDay sessions here. https://t.co/V2hIN4fAGk — Windows Developer (@windowsdev) February 10, 2017 Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15031 for PC Here’s what’s new in this Build: The new Compact Overlay window Dynamic Lock New Share icon Windows Game Bar improved full-screen support Fixes and updates Who wants to bug bash a new PC build? 15031 is now available in the Fast ring! Details in the new blog post! [ more… ]

Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.3

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Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.3 The UWP Community Toolkit continues to grow at a rapid speed thanks to the ideas and contributions from the community. Over the last period, over 82 percent of the contributions came from the developer community (59 contributors). Thank you! Today, we are happy to announce the largest update to the toolkit since the launch a few months ago! You can get started following these steps, or preview the latest features by installing the UWP Community Toolkit Sample App from the Windows Store. As a reminder, the toolkit can be used in any app (across PC, Xbox One, Mobile, HoloLens and Surface Hub devices) targeting Windows 10 November Update (10.0.10586) or above. The few features that rely on newer OS updates are clearly marked in the documentation and in the Sample App. Here’s just a summary [ more… ]

Spheroids now available for Windows 10 and Xbox One

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Spheroids now available for Windows 10 and Xbox One When we started development of Spheroids, we wanted to do something inspired by the mechanics of a classic game that was popular in the arcades in Spain when we were young: Pang! (aka Buster Bros). It was a simple skill-based game that had you bursting balls over different stages around the world. We thought it was great and that it could be used as inspiration to evolve it and mix it with other genres to create something new and original. The first thing we thought could improve upon were larger environments. After all, why should you be confined to a small screen? It might have been a constraint back in 1989, but now we could push the platforming and puzzle elements hinted at in Pang! to new levels in Spheroids. Following up [ more… ]

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Windows 10 and Surface stomp on security threats with new enterprise innovations

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Windows 10 and Surface stomp on security threats with new enterprise innovations Next week is one of the most important weeks of the year for us in security at Microsoft as we join the leading thinkers in cybersecurity at the RSA conference in San Francisco. At Microsoft, we are tirelessly focused on creating innovation that helps our customers protect, detect and respond to the constantly evolving and ever changing cyber threat landscape. Our goal is to create a holistic, agile security platform, powered by the cloud, that better secures our customers – and Microsoft’s – infrastructure around the world. With RSA so clearly on my mind, I am pleased to share six new security announcements that we will discuss in detail next week. NSA adds Windows 10 and Surface to list for classified use Enhanced security capabilities with Surface Enterprise [ more… ]

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Windows SDK for Google Analytics

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Windows SDK for Google Analytics Google Analytics is one of the most popular analytics libraries for websites and mobile apps. Google Analytics is widely used to track user sessions, screen views, events, crashes, social interactions and promotional campaigns on Android and iOS. Today, we are excited to announce that Microsoft is launching a Windows SDK for Google Analytics, providing an easy way for Windows 10 developers to access these valuable services. The SDK can be integrated into your apps via a NuGet package. The source is hosted on GitHub. There is a C# SDK that can be used both by Universal Windows Store apps and desktop apps, and there is also a C++ WinRT component for developers targeting UWP apps written in C++ or JavaScript.  Both the C# SDK and the C++ WinRT component use the same API names, so [ more… ]