Developers doing Windows apps have a confusing arsenal of tools and frameworks to work with, but Microsoft is simplifying things a bit with a new Visual Studio workload that highlights the company's ...

The third preview of the Windows App SDK (formerly "Project Reunion") supports deploying WinUI 3 apps without MSIX-packaging. The Windows App SDK is described by Microsoft as the evolution of Windows ...

Microsoft has released a new version of the WinUI 3 Gallery app, a set of controls and styles for apps build with Windows App SDK. The latest version adds a new section, better design, and bugfixes.

The company has not yet explained which products will be rebuilt or launched first, but this could finally free Windows 11 ...

Thirty years of bad decisions finally caught up with your Task Manager ...

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Microsoft just released the WinUI 3 Project Reunion 0.5 preview. It is the first release of Win UI 3 that ships inside the Project Reunion package. The preview also adds support for in-app acrylic and ...

Web apps made Windows slower, clunkier, and less compelling. Microsoft is finally scrambling to fix it—it's about time.

It’s hard to choose a Windows UI framework. After all, there are so many of them. Do you build an application using the familiar WinForms, the more modern Windows Presentation Framework, or Windows 10 ...

Rudy Huyn, a Partner Architect at Microsoft working on the Store and File Explorer, said in a post on X that he is building a ...

Microsoft's new native app team will ditch web wrappers for faster, more responsive Windows 11 software. The shift tackles ...