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Learn how to design beautiful and functional Windows desktop applications that support various device formats and input types.
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"We’re excited to bring our full-featured Evernote app to the Windows Store. The Desktop Bridge vastly simplifies our installer and uninstaller. It also opens up UWP APIs that we’ve taken advantage of, including the live tiles and notifications. And having the full-featured Evernote app in the Windows Store means future improvements will reach users faster."
Browse a rundown of the APIs included in Windows 10 that support the latest app and device experiences.
Learn how to build great apps for Windows by experimenting with our samples. These samples show you how features work and help you jumpstart your own apps.
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Azure RemoteApp brings the functionality of the on-premises Microsoft RemoteApp program, backed by Remote Desktop Services, to Azure. Azure RemoteApp helps you provide remote access to applications from many different user devices.
It gets technical in this Build 2015 session that goes deep into the new DirectX12 APIs. Find out how you can use DirectX12 to produce cutting-edge 3D graphics across the spectrum of Windows devices.
