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The RS5 Update Resources and Tutorials

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

My friends at Microsoft have put together an amazing compilation of resources of all the new stuff available in the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (aka RS5). Below is a list of some of those resources relevant to developers and enthusiasts, enjoy!

SDK Downloads

EXE - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=2023014
ISO - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=2022797 You can also install the
Visual Studio Installer - Choose the UWP workload and select 17763 SDK under additional components

New Samples and Sample Updates

XAML Hosting API Sample uses the new XAML hosting API and C++/WinRT to demonstrate usage of XAML controls within a Win32 application.
Customer Orders Database Sample has been updated to use the new Data Grid and other new controls in RS5.
Photo Editor C++/WinRT Sample has been updated to build with the RS5 SDK and to use the new single_threaded_observable_vector function to create an IObservableVector for data binding. An additional performance update will be coming out in a couple weeks.
Data binding and MVVM is a new topic that was identified as a need based on the Code First program. The topic describes the benefits of using the MVVM design pattern and how it has been applied to the sample apps.

Videos

Application Developer Resources

Dev Center site page updates (Home page , Get started , What’s cool , Desktop , Downloads , and more)
What’s New in Windows 10 for developers, build 17763
New APIs in Windows 10 build 17763
Fluent Design controls (CommandBarFlyout , MenuBar , TreeView , and more)
Motion in Fluent Design
Gaze input and interactions
Windows UI Library (WinUI)
MSIX
UWP Controls in desktop applications
C++/WinRT
DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI)
Project Rome
Windows Machine Learning
Store Analytics API
EdgeHTML 18
Progressive Web Apps
WebVR

Driver Developer Resources

Windows Hardware Dashboard
Debugger Data Model API
Windows Driver Framework (WDF)
Audio
Bluetooth
Display
Windows Kernel
Networking
Mobile Broadband
Sensors
USB
Wi-fi
Go here to see a list of comprehensive list of doc changes.

Page Transitions for Universal XAML Pages

Sat, 07 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Normally, if you want different page transitions (NavigationThemeTransition ) for your Universal XAML Windows Phone 8.1 app, you’d set it on the page’s XAML directly. For example, let’s do a ContinuumTransition:

<Page.Transitions> 
 <TransitionCollection> 
 <NavigationThemeTransition> 
 <NavigationThemeTransition.DefaultNavigationTransitionInfo> 
 <ContinuumNavigationTransitionInfo /> 
 </NavigationThemeTransition.DefaultNavigationTransitionInfo> 
 </NavigationThemeTransition> 
 </TransitionCollection> 
</Page.Transitions>

However, if you have a XAML page in your Universal app’s shared folder, you can’t use XAML because page transitions are not available for Windows 8.1 apps. Since there isn’t a conditional compilation for XAML, we’ll need to do it from the code behind.

EmailMessage class Approach for Windows

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Unfortunately, there is no EmailMessage class for big Windows. It is such a nice feature of Windows Phone to be able to quickly compose an email programmatically and launch the built-in email app. However, I have created a working approach for the windows portions of my Universal Windows apps and I wanted to share it with you.

My first attempt was with using a ShareContract, but it doesn’t allow you to fill in the “To:” field and sometimes my error report data was too long to fit into DataTransferManager’s SetText() method.

Adding Telerik Universal

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Telerik has released a new toolset, UI for Windows Universal . You can now use many components like Charts and Calendars in a shared XAML page in your application. If you already have the Telerik Windows Phone or Windows 8.1 XAML controls, you now have a license for the Universal controls, too.

It is very simple to add it to your project. Let me show you in a quick File > New example: