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New Dev Center Capabilities Dev Center continuously adds more options to enable you to monetize and promote your apps and games, and to streamline new submissions or analyze app performance. This month, Dev Center adds new capabilities that further this vision, including: Submit apps and games to Xbox One Reduce the risk of a new app release with gradual package rollout Communicate optional and required hardware preferences Ensure customers have an ideal experience with your app or game through mandatory updates Simplify cross-device development with Store–managed consumables Streamline app management with the Submission API and simplified device family targeting Enhance your business analysis through improved reports: lifetime add-on acquisitions, an enhanced Feedback report and the new Real time report Work faster in Dev Center using the new dashboard view 1. Enabling your apps and games to be offered to Xbox [ more… ]

Windows 10 Tip: A closer look at the Windows Store What do you call a place that has the latest movies, TV, music, apps and games? The Windows Store of course! With the latest Windows 10 Anniversary Update the Windows Store is better than ever. Today, we’re giving you a quick tour around the new Store. To find the Store, select the Windows key on your keyboard to bring up the Start menu and then click the Store tile. Or, if you’ve pinned the Store to your taskbar, you can select it that way. Once you open the app you’ll see the homepage with featured content and collections, top apps, games like Rise of the Tomb Raider, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition for Windows 10 and more. You’ll also notice there are different sections within the Store. The sections are Home, Apps, [ more… ]

Boss Update coming to Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition beta and Pocket Edition Today, on Xbox Wire I shared what’s coming in the next major update for Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition beta and Pocket Edition, it’s called the Boss Update. This fearsome update is packed with content that is sure to thrill every type of Minecraft player, with two big new boss battles, new blocks for building and even the first set of long-awaited slash commands for those who love to tinker with the game. Ocean Monuments will be discoverable, and you can enjoy adventuring in these new, rare locations with friends beneath the sea. Survival players, creatives and builders alike are in for a real treat with the Boss Update. Ocean Monuments will be discoverable, and you can enjoy adventuring in these new, rare locations with friends beneath the sea. [ more… ]

Interop between XAML and the Visual Layer The Composition APIs empower Universal Windows Platform (UWP) developers to do beautiful and powerful things when they drop down to the Visual Layer (as in the sample below). One of the remarkable things about these APIs is that they are designed, end-to-end, to integrate with the XAML Layer. Because of this built-in interoperability, the Composition APIs allow you to visually enhance your current XAML code without needing to replace it. This post will cover the specific APIs for pulling Visuals out of your XAML as well as pushing Visuals back into your layout. These are also known as hand-out Visuals and hand-in Visuals. Additionally, we’ll cover some details of property sharing between the Framework Layer and the Visual Layer which you will find helpful to get under your belt. We’ll finish off with [ more… ]

This Week on Windows: Cortana tips, Windows 10 PC offers and more We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! To learn more about the Cortana* tip mentioned head over to our Windows 10 Tips blog post on how to use Cortana above your lock screen with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. A couple of Windows 10 PC offers were also highlighted in the episode, you can learn more about the Study and Play offers here and below we’re sharing details on Amazon’s offer on the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S and some great offers from Best Buy. Save $150 on the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S with Office 365 Personal included From now until 9/3/16 save $150 when you purchase the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S with Windows 10 from Amazon**, you’ll also receive a copy of Office [ more… ]