Progress has open-sourced its Progress Telerik UI for Universal Windows Platform, which is a set of native UI controls for building Windows apps. With this announcement, Progress also revealed it is donating to the .NET Foundation to help it with open development in the .NET ecosystem. “With this donation, we are extending our commitment to … continue reading
Progress has announced the latest release of its UI toolbox for web, mobile and desktop development. The latest version of Telerik DevCraft features support for Angular 2, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Universal Windows Platform. Additional features include new CheckBoxList, RadioButtonList and RichTextBox components; new chart types; the ability to convert legacy WinForms apps to modern … continue reading
Microsoft is giving developers a new open-source toolkit to enable them to work with their community and contribute to the Windows SDK. The UWP Community Toolkit features capabilities such as helper functions, custom controls and app services for developers; open-source code; and alignment with the Windows SDK for Windows 10. Developers can use the toolkit … continue reading
Microsoft’s BUILD conference has come and gone this year, and in its wake there is a great deal for developers to consider. For most there are new capabilities and goodies to leverage, but as we will see there are some who are not entirely happy about where things are heading on some fronts. As expected, … continue reading
Developers can now build native apps using React Native for Windows PC, Windows Phone and Xbox. Microsoft announced it is adding support for the open-source framework to its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) at Facebook’s developer conference, F8 2016, yesterday. “As opposed to a ‘write once, run everywhere’ kind of framework, React Native expects each platform … continue reading
Cortana has been pulled out from the Google Play Store because saying “Hey Cortana” was causing problems for the microphone of several Android devices. The saying was interfering with Google Now’s “Ok Google” feature, according to Android Community. It’s not determined yet if the microphone problems are the sole cause of the removal of the … continue reading
Microsoft has provided developers with a manual way to migrate their Windows Phone 8.x apps to Windows 10, but Mobilize.Net wants to automate the process. In partnership with Microsoft, Mobilize.Net has released a Silverlight bridge that brings Silverlight apps to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) on Windows 10. The bridge allows developers to parse and … continue reading
