Developers - Page 5 of 22

June 17, 2014

With 6 million downloads already, ‘Drift Mania’ developer seeks to expand reach with Windows Phone 8.1

Pat Toulouse, a 3D artist and Unity developer, has enjoyed huge success with the “Drift Mania” series, which has had 6 million downloads on Windows and Windows Phone devices, twice the number of downloads on any other platform over the last few months.

June 16, 2014

Designers and developers: Find out how an app can adapt to a user’s location

Sometimes an app’s user’s preferred language and settings don’t reflect where they are located, writes Gilles Peigné, program manager for Developer Ecosystem & Platform on the Windows Apps Team. They travel or regularly conduct international business, and while they want the apps to appear in their preferred language, they want the content to be relevant to their immediate surroundings.

June 16, 2014

New IE Developer Channel gives Web developers, early adopters a sneak peek at what’s in the works

On Monday, the Internet Explorer team announced the release of the IE Developer Channel, a fully functioning browser meant to give Web developers and early adopters a look at the Web platform features being worked on by the team.

June 6, 2014

Developers: You can now pre-order your Kinect for Windows v2 sensor

Ready to start creating Windows Store apps with Kinect for the first time? Developers can now pre-order the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor, with pre-orders being shipped in July. (Be sure not to miss our inside look at how Kinect works and its future.)

June 4, 2014

Developers: Learn how to extend Exchange, Outlook and OWA across platforms and devices with new app model

In the new video, Jeremy Chapman is joined by Jason Henderson from the Exchange engineering team, and the two explain not only how mail apps work, but also how to build and preview them using Visual Studio, as well as how apps can insert data directly from a Web service into the body of an email.

June 4, 2014

Microsoft demonstrates new ecosystem opportunity and unveils the latest partner devices at Computex 2014

Nick Parker, Microsoft corporate vice president, demonstrates the latest Windows hardware innovations, announces new lower price points and new markets.

May 30, 2014

Office platform developers: Build business solutions with code and open-source project samples

Office platform developers have access to a variety of resources to build business solutions, such as code samples from MSDN, more than 100 sample Visual Studio projects and open-source samples released on GitHub.

May 29, 2014

Developers: Could your apps use geofencing? Test them with the Windows Phone Emulator

Geofencing is a new feature in Windows Phone 8.1 that allows an app to track one or more geographical regions and then alert the app when the phone enters or exits that area. Get tips and examples for using the Windows Phone Emulator in Visual Studio 2013 to test an app that includes geofencing.

May 27, 2014

Developers: Find out how to resolve crashes and failures in Windows Store apps

The Windows Reliability/Windows Error Reporting team has written a blog post that gives Windows Store app developers the most common failures seen in the Windows Error Reporting (WER) telemetry across multiple Windows Store apps, and provides recommendations for how to avoid them.

May 23, 2014

Attention, developers! New Windows app training resources now available!

Microsoft recently released a couple of new resources for developers looking to build apps for the Windows ecosystem, according to the Building Apps for Windows blog.