UWP

Microsoft Will Let Developers Update UWP Apps to .NET 9

Microsoft Will Let Developers Update Legacy UWP Apps to .NET 9

Microsoft today announced a surprising new modernization path for developers stuck supporting legacy UWP apps.

.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Helps Developers Move Off of Xamarin, UWP

Microsoft announced that its .NET Upgrade Assistant extension for Visual Studio now supports migrating apps…

Microsoft is Moving File Explorer to the Windows App SDK

In an unexpected move, Microsoft said this week that it will transition the Windows 11…

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Yes, UWP is Still Dead (Premium)

Every year, we’re forced to revisit this topic, so why not just have some fun…

Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP

Microsoft continues to baby-step around the obvious, but it has officially deprecated the Universal Windows…

Microsoft Releases Windows Community Toolkit 7

Microsoft today announced the availability of the Windows Community Toolkit 7, the latest version of…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Windows 10 Theme Support (Premium)

UWP apps like .NETpad natively support Windows 10’s Dark and Light app modes (themes), but…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Auto Save (Premium)

Today, we’ll implement .NETpad’s Auto Save functionality, which will work nearly identically to the way…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): App Close Confirmation (Premium)

I think I’ve finally found a reliable way to prompt the user to save an…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Text Zoom, App Name, App Icon (Premium)

This time, we’ll implement .NETpad’s text zooming capabilities, fix the application name, and add a…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Find/Replace (Premium)

For this installment of our UWP project, we’ll implement Find, Find Next, Find Previous, Replace,…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): New, Save, and Save As (Premium)

With File Open and the Save prompt out of the way, we can move forward…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): File Open and Custom Dialogs (Premium)

In this fourth installment, we’ll get started on file operations and custom dialogs, both of…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): More Settings (Premium)

In this installment of the UWP Notepad project, we’ll implement the non-font user settings and…

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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): User Settings (Premium)

In this second installment, we’ll use C# to implement user settings related to fonts, word…

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Reassessing Project Reunion (Premium)

Like some real developers, I’ve gone through what I call the three stages of irrational…

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