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 ...

Microsoft shipped a major update of its Windows App SDK, a unifying resource for building various kinds of Windows apps with modern technologies. The company calls the Windows App SDK the evolution of ...

The Windows UI Library 3 is, as the three already indicates, not the first version of Windows UI. The development of the Windows UI Library began in 2012, without it being called that yet. With ...

Cutting corners: A new tool is leveraging the capabilities of the Windows App SDK and WinUI 3 API to deliver a "comprehensive enhancement" to the Windows 11 user interface. Rebound 11 aims to bring ...

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 ...

Comment It is July 2015. Microsoft has just released Windows 10. Developers, weary from the false trail of Windows 8 and being urged to make "Metro style" apps, are now being pitched a new vision from ...

After the first part of this series dealt with Windows Forms, we will now look at Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows UI Library 3 (WinUI 3). Both GUI frameworks are based on XAML ...

A new open-source tool from The Browser Company sets us on the road to bringing Swift apps from iOS and macOS to Windows. You might think that Apple’s Swift is a programming language for macOS and iOS ...