Join Shen Chauhan and Victor Soto from the Dev Center Engineering team as he walks you through the new multi-user role based access feature. Victor show you how you can use the power of Azure Active Directory and the Dev Center to assign users various permissions from submitting your app to viewing financial data all with a few clicks. For more questions or ideas for IWP contact @shenchauhan or @larryALieberman.
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In this weeks' episode we will take a look at the browsers inside Windows 10, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11. We will help answer questions such as, why does Windows 10 have 2 browsers, how do I think about this in the context of web app compatibility, guidance on your long-term web app strategy, and what you should be doing the short term.Next Steps Web Application Compatibility Lab KitLearn: Prepare your Enterprise for Windows 10 as a ServiceTry: Windows 10 free evaluationTry: Windows 10 Virtual LabsMore Resources TechCenter: Windows resources, tools and guidanceWatch: Get the inside track from Microsoft expertsConnect: Join the Windows conversation on TwitterGartner Magic Quadr...
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In this weeks' episode we will take a look at the browsers inside Windows 10, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11. We will help answer questions such as, why does Windows 10 have 2 browsers, how do I think about this in the context of web app compatibility, guidance on your long-term web app strategy, and what you should be doing the short term.Next Steps Web Application Compatibility Lab KitLearn: Prepare your Enterprise for Windows 10 as a ServiceTry: Windows 10 free evaluationTry: Windows 10 Virtual LabsMore Resources TechCenter: Windows resources, tools and guidanceWatch: Get the inside track from Microsoft expertsConnect: Join the Windows conversation on TwitterGartner Magic Quadr...
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This week, Shen walked us through the Windows 10 Ink APIs. Here are some more resources for you on this topic: Shen's blog on adding Ink functionality to your Windows 10 UWP applicationShen's code sample on GitHubOfficial developer documentation on handling Pen inputOfficial developer documentation Inking code sampleFrom Build 2015 Harness the Full Power of Digital Inking in Your Universal Windows App with Ink Recognition, Advanced Ink Processing, and More; andIntroducing DirectInk: Learn How to Unlock New Opportunities Using Ink in Your AppLet us know if you have any questions! @larryalieberman @shenchauhan
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This week, Shen walked us through the Windows 10 Ink APIs. Here are some more resources for you on this topic: Shen's blog on adding Ink functionality to your Windows 10 UWP applicationShen's code sample on GitHubOfficial developer documentation on handling Pen inputOfficial developer documentation Inking code sampleFrom Build 2015 Harness the Full Power of Digital Inking in Your Universal Windows App with Ink Recognition, Advanced Ink Processing, and More; andIntroducing DirectInk: Learn How to Unlock New Opportunities Using Ink in Your AppLet us know if you have any questions! @larryalieberman @shenchauhan
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In this week's show, we nerd-out on the features of the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 that are amazing for IT Pros and Developers. Wonder what makes the Surface Book the ultimate laptop, then take a look at look at this episode. It's things like NVMe SSDs, connected by PCIe rather than SATA. It's things like a UEFI built from the ground up for management. It's things like Windows 10 and Windows Hello combining to make your PC smile at you. It's things like dGPU cranking on your graphics. It's a pen that feels like a pen. It's a keyboard that feels ... perfect. Questions @simonster Next Steps Learn: Prepare your Enterprise for Windows 10 as a ServiceTry: Windows 10 free evaluationMore Resou...
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In this week's show, we nerd-out on the features of the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 that are amazing for IT Pros and Developers. Wonder what makes the Surface Book the ultimate laptop, then take a look at look at this episode. It's things like NVMe SSDs, connected by PCIe rather than SATA. It's things like a UEFI built from the ground up for management. It's things like Windows 10 and Windows Hello combining to make your PC smile at you. It's things like dGPU cranking on your graphics. It's a pen that feels like a pen. It's a keyboard that feels ... perfect. Questions @simonster
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This week we're talking about App Services. App Services in UWP allow you to exposes some aspect of your application in such a way that it can be called by other applications. You can think of this being able to write your own web service that exposes your information/functionality directly to other applications on the device. Here are more resources on this topic: Shen's blog on App Services in UWPShen's App Services code sample on GitHubApp Services namespace in the official developer reference documentation.App Services sample in the official developer documentation samplesQuestions? @larryalieberman @shenchauhan
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This week we're talking about App Services. App Services in UWP allow you to exposes some aspect of your application in such a way that it can be called by other applications. You can think of this being able to write your own web service that exposes your information/functionality directly to other applications on the device. Here are more resources on this topic: Shen's blog on App Services in UWPShen's App Services code sample on GitHubApp Services namespace in the official developer reference documentation.App Services sample in the official developer documentation samplesQuestions? @larryalieberman @shenchauhan
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This week we talked about how you can easily detect the battery status, and respond to that status. It's become more and more critical that the experiences you create for the end user respect battery status, and if you conditionally operate in a way that preserves that status, your user will be more happy. It's extremely easy to do this, as we demonstrate in this short video... of course just part of the puzzle in terms of what you may choose to do to create a great experience for your user. You yourself will have to determine exactly how to conditionally change the behavior of your app in order to deliver the better experience, and to some extent this will require that you deduce what oper...
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This week we talked about how you can easily detect the battery status, and respond to that status. It's become more and more critical that the experiences you create for the end user respect battery status, and if you conditionally operate in a way that preserves that status, your user will be more happy. It's extremely easy to do this, as we demonstrate in this short video... of course just part of the puzzle in terms of what you may choose to do to create a great experience for your user. You yourself will have to determine exactly how to conditionally change the behavior of your app in order to deliver the better experience, and to some extent this will require that you deduce what oper...
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In Windows 10, we've made it exceedingly easy to add "Drag and Drop" functionality to your UWP application. As you're probably aware, "drag and drop" is by no means a new feature for Windows applications. For a very long time, the notion for the user to able to move objects within a single application, or between the application and the shell, or even between two completely different applications, has been a familiar and popular mechanism for users, especially when manipulating familiar objects like text or images. Now in Windows 10 we've not only brought this developer scenario to the XAML/C# platform; we've also made it exceedingly easy to implement. Today, Shen walked...
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In Windows 10, we've made it exceedingly easy to add "Drag and Drop" functionality to your UWP application. As you're probably aware, "drag and drop" is by no means a new feature for Windows applications. For a very long time, the notion for the user to able to move objects within a single application, or between the application and the shell, or even between two completely different applications, has been a familiar and popular mechanism for users, especially when manipulating familiar objects like text or images. Now in Windows 10 we've not only brought this developer scenario to the XAML/C# platform; we've also made it exceedingly easy to implement. Today, Shen walked...
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This week, Shen and I took a look at how you can very easily use the new XAML SplitView control to build an experience in your UWP application that automatically _adapts_ based on the current size of your application. As you may imagine, this is one of the foundational building blocks we provide to enable you to build application experiences that appropriately render for the type of device on which the user is running the application. In this video, we demonstrate how these same techniques enable the application to adapt to how the user may change the size of your application in Windows as well. Here are some additional resources you may find valuable in leveraging these controls: From the ...
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This week, Shen and I took a look at how you can very easily use the new XAML SplitView control to build an experience in your UWP application that automatically _adapts_ based on the current size of your application. As you may imagine, this is one of the foundational building blocks we provide to enable you to build application experiences that appropriately render for the type of device on which the user is running the application. In this video, we demonstrate how these same techniques enable the application to adapt to how the user may change the size of your application in Windows as well. Here are some additional resources you may find valuable in leveraging these controls: From the ...
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"Project Astoria" lets you build great Windows apps, while reusing your Android app code and tools. Apps built with this technology leverage key Windows interactions, and deliver the kind of experience Windows users expect. To make changes or debug your app, you can use your current IDE. We support IntelliJ, Android Studio, and Eclipse, and in addition to Windows development machines, you can use your Mac. Watch the video for an overview of "Project Astoria", and learn more at http://aka.ms/projectastoria.
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"Project Astoria" lets you build great Windows apps, while reusing your Android app code and tools. Apps built with this technology leverage key Windows interactions, and deliver the kind of experience Windows users expect. To make changes or debug your app, you can use your current IDE. We support IntelliJ, Android Studio, and Eclipse, and in addition to Windows development machines, you can use your Mac. Watch the video for an overview of "Project Astoria", and learn more at http://aka.ms/projectastoria.
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At Mobile World Congress 2015, Kevin Gallo gave the world a first look at the Windows 10 universal app platform. Kevin provided background into how developers can achieve scale through reach across device types, and introduced adaptive UX, natural user inputs and cloud-based services to help developers deliver unique and personal experiences with Windows 10. Finally, Kevin showed how developers can package existing websites, which (once published to the store) can call universal APIs to create an engaging user experience. The video incudes demos of apps running across the Windows universal app platform on PC, phone, and Xbox One. Join the Windows Insider Program to get early access to Win...
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At Mobile World Congress 2015, Kevin Gallo gave the world a first look at the Windows 10 universal app platform. Kevin provided background into how developers can achieve scale through reach across device types, and introduced adaptive UX, natural user inputs and cloud-based services to help developers deliver unique and personal experiences with Windows 10. Finally, Kevin showed how developers can package existing websites, which (once published to the store) can call universal APIs to create an engaging user experience. The video incudes demos of apps running across the Windows universal app platform on PC, phone, and Xbox One. Join the Windows Insider Program to get early access to Win...
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In this video, Shen chatted with Yavor Georgiev from the Azure team about how easy it is to add push notifications to your Windows app, using Azure Mobile Services. Why would you want to use Azure? Well, if you haven't built push notifications before, you may not be aware that even though there is the Windows Notification Service in the cloud handling all of the addressing of your messages, you still have to provide some kind of additional server based functionality in order to provide users notifications based on some kind of cloud based conditional occurrence. (Note that you can drive notifications from the client as well, but of course these will have intrinsic limitations based on the f...
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In this video, Shen chatted with Yavor Georgiev from the Azure team about how easy it is to add push notifications to your Windows app, using Azure Mobile Services. Why would you want to use Azure? Well, if you haven't built push notifications before, you may not be aware that even though there is the Windows Notification Service in the cloud handling all of the addressing of your messages, you still have to provide some kind of additional server based functionality in order to provide users notifications based on some kind of cloud based conditional occurrence. (Note that you can drive notifications from the client as well, but of course these will have intrinsic limitations based on the f...
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As we all know, up until Windows Phone 8.1, virtually all Windows Phone applications were written with Windows Phone Silverlight. With 8.1, we introduced Windows Runtime (WinRT) XAML. WinRT XAML, which evolved from Silverlight, first shipped on Windows 8.0. With Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 update 1, we now have this same UX framework available on both Windows and Windows Phone devices, which means it is easier than ever for developers to leverage the same code to target multiple device types. Of course, the first step is to build an application leveraging WinRT XAML. If you've already got an existing Windows Phone Silverlight application, you may not realize how easy it is to bring yo...
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As we all know, up until Windows Phone 8.1, virtually all Windows Phone applications were written with Windows Phone Silverlight. With 8.1, we introduced Windows Runtime (WinRT) XAML. WinRT XAML, which evolved from Silverlight, first shipped on Windows 8.0. With Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 update 1, we now have this same UX framework available on both Windows and Windows Phone devices, which means it is easier than ever for developers to leverage the same code to target multiple device types. Of course, the first step is to build an application leveraging WinRT XAML. If you've already got an existing Windows Phone Silverlight application, you may not realize how easy it is to bring yo...
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Bernardo Zamora joined us to announce the immediate availability of the new Microsoft Windows Ad Mediator Service and Control, an awesome new service designed to help you massively improve your advertising revenue globally. This is a new service & control from Microsoft that will enable you to add advertising from a variety of different ad networks to your Windows (Phone only right now) application; you can then specify how often each specific network is used by updating your mediation configuration for the application in the Dev Center. This configuration can in turn be optimized by market, so that you are using the most effective ad networks in the appropriate regions. Changes can be ...
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Bernardo Zamora joined us to announce the immediate availability of the new Microsoft Windows Ad Mediator Service and Control, an awesome new service designed to help you massively improve your advertising revenue globally. This is a new service & control from Microsoft that will enable you to add advertising from a variety of different ad networks to your Windows (Phone only right now) application; you can then specify how often each specific network is used by updating your mediation configuration for the application in the Dev Center. This configuration can in turn be optimized by market, so that you are using the most effective ad networks in the appropriate regions. Changes can be ...
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In this week's episode of Inside Windows Platform, we talked with Ivan Stojiljkovic, the Dev Lead of the OCR team at Microsoft. OCR is an extremely compelling developer scenario which can empower all sorts of amazing and useful mobile application. Microsoft's been developing OCR functionality for its applications for, literally, years. In order to get real world data, the OCR team first published their code as part of the Bing Translator app, which gave them an enormous amount of data, and compellingly delivers an experience of near real-time translation of any camera captured text. Now, the OCR team is giving YOU the ability to leverage the power of character recognition to your applicatio...
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In this week's episode of Inside Windows Platform, we talked with Ivan Stojiljkovic, the Dev Lead of the OCR team at Microsoft. OCR is an extremely compelling developer scenario which can empower all sorts of amazing and useful mobile application. Microsoft's been developing OCR functionality for its applications for, literally, years. In order to get real world data, the OCR team first published their code as part of the Bing Translator app, which gave them an enormous amount of data, and compellingly delivers an experience of near real-time translation of any camera captured text. Now, the OCR team is giving YOU the ability to leverage the power of character recognition to your applicatio...
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Today, Yavor Georgiev from the Azure Mobile Services team joined us to walk us through exactly how a Windows application developer would get started building a back-end service for your mobile app. Yavor walked us through getting started with Azure in your .NET project, and showed how you can use the online quickstart, (first link below), to quickly generate a template solution that includes all the functionality you need to get started with a mobile data storage back end for your universal Windows application. As we noted in the video, many of the most compelling mobile applications leverage online services in some way, and Azure provides the average client developer the ability to add a w...
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Today, Yavor Georgiev from the Azure Mobile Services team joined us to walk us through exactly how a Windows application developer would get started building a back-end service for your mobile app. Yavor walked us through getting started with Azure in your .NET project, and showed how you can use the online quickstart, (first link below), to quickly generate a template solution that includes all the functionality you need to get started with a mobile data storage back end for your universal Windows application. As we noted in the video, many of the most compelling mobile applications leverage online services in some way, and Azure provides the average client developer the ability to add a w...
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Dave is an experienced graphic design professional, who's spent the last several years driving high quality design into some of the most popular Windows apps. This week Shen and Dave spent time reviewing some of the key themes that he leverages in his work, and things you can do to radically improve the quality of the applications you deliver. Here are links to some of the things Dave mentioned: Adobe KulerColourLovers... and here are links to some of our core design documentation Design on the Windows Developer CenterDesign Guidelines for Windows Runtime apps... and if you want more of Dave's great guidance on practical implementation of these design tips, check out this presentation he ga...
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Dave is an experienced graphic design professional, who's spent the last several years driving high quality design into some of the most popular Windows apps. This week Shen and Dave spent time reviewing some of the key themes that he leverages in his work, and things you can do to radically improve the quality of the applications you deliver. Here are links to some of the things Dave mentioned: Adobe KulerColourLovers... and here are links to some of our core design documentation Design on the Windows Developer CenterDesign Guidelines for Windows Runtime apps... and if you want more of Dave's great guidance on practical implementation of these design tips, check out this presentation he ga...
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