“Designed to enhance the rich user experience of Windows 8, Studio for WinRT XAML gives developers powerful and unique controls for building better Windows Store apps,” said Greg Lutz, product manager ...

Originally codenamed Project Neon, Microsoft's Fluent Design System was announced at Build last year. The firm promised that the new design language would evolve over time, and it has done just that.

At the Microsoft BUILD conference held in San Francisco earlier in the year, Microsoft announced Universal Windows apps which allows users to develop once for all Windows devices. “Using the Universal ...

It might surprise some people at Microsoft, but I've never been asked to build an application that put photographs on spinning cubes. Nor have I ever been asked to include video in my apps. I suspect ...

In the previous article, I walked through the basics of using Visual Studio to easily create a UI using some drag-and-drop controls that set up the front end of the UI. From there, we took the XAML ...

In an app of any meaningful size, wrapping up common functionality in a composite control reduces the long-term effort needed to craft the app. Learn how to do just that right here. Programmers spend ...

A while back, I had mentioned using Out-GridView to build a UI without really doing anything that complicated. As fun as that is, we can have even more fun by making use of Windows Presentation ...

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