Windows Dev Center Tips Aims to Help With Common Windows Store Publishing Scenarios
Friday, May 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Windows developer team's new blog series called Windows Dev Center Tips to help app publishers through several common publishing scenarios associated with the Windows Store.Among the topics covered in the new series are:- Publish or update a public app- Package flighting- Third party and legacy distribution options- Publishing hidden apps- Side-loading and enterpris...
Windows Dev Center Rolls Out New Age Rating Process and Other Updates
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Windows Dev Team is rolling out several updates for how developers work within the Windows Dev Center including a new age rating system, new app promotion and monetization opportunities and updates to the Windows developer agreementNew Simplified Age Rating ProcessIn December Microsoft will begin the rollout of a new process to simplify obtaining age ratings for app...
Microsoft Streamlines Windows Developer Ad Options
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Windows Dev Center team has announced that it finished integrating the functionality previously available in the Windows pubCenter in order to simplify the process that developers use to create, manage and track Microsoft advertising ad impressions and revenue across Windows phone, tablet and PC. In addition, Microsoft Advertising and Windows ad mediation have ...
Microsoft Provides First Look at Windows Bridge for iOS
Monday, August 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
In its continuing effort to encourage app developers to embrace cross platform development, Microsoft continues to roll out its bridging technologies to allow developers to bring existing code and skills for iOS, Android, web and desktop to the Windows Store.As part of that effort, Microsoft has released an initial version of the Windows Bridge for iOS (previously known...
Highlights from Day One of Microsoft Build Developers Conference
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
As you can imagine it was all about Windows 10 at the Microsoft Build Developers Conference. Ambitious in its size and scope of information, Microsoft is saying that it plans to have billion active Windows 10 devices by 2018.Highlights of the Windows 10 announcements include:- New Universal Windows Platform Bridge toolkits which enable developers to bring existing .NET,...
Windows 10 Developer Tooling Technical Preview Released
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Windows developer team has released to the Windows Insiders community the first technical preview of the Windows 10 developer tooling.As a preview, do not expect a completely finished product, instead you get the opportunity to experiment with the new platform capabilities while Microsoft continues working to finish Windows 10.Here are some of the top features of th...
Updates on the Windows 10 Developer Platform Strategy and Universal App Platform
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft is planning to take all of us down a platform convergence journey with Windows 10 – the question is, are we riding a Donky or a Porsche? That sounds harsh, but the Windows 8 experience left many underwhelmed and confused. However, in a world of wet behind the ears startups, Microsoft benefits from the long view as the industry is still in the infancy figu...
Reporting Changes to Windows Phone App Downloads and In App Products Reports
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Windows Dev Center has announced that Windows Phone download and in-app purchase reports have been optimized to deliver information faster. The team released this change for Windows in December and is now are aligning these improvements to Windows Phone. App developers will now see transaction data no more than 2 days following the transaction itself and in man...
Windows App Store Announces Latest App Download and Monetization Trends
Saturday, December 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Windows Development Team has released its latest report in a recurring series that provides details about recent Windows App Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Data from the Windows Store is included with Windows Phone Store, to provide information about apps regardless of the devices targeted.This latest update includes several new analyses includin...
Developers Who Are Gaming the System to be Kicked Out of Windows and Windows Phone Store
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
A recent post by Todd Brix on the Windows developer blog shows that Microsoft is taking seriously a problem every app store deals with – developers who created misleading app titles and descriptions to confuse users who think the apps are something they may not be.Here is what Brix had to say:As Windows Store expands to reach more customers in more markets with a growin...
New Microsoft Sharks Cove Development Board Not Another Slice of Pi
Thursday, July 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has announced they are taking preorders for the Sharks Cove development board, a “Windows compatible hardware development board” designed to facilitate development of software and drivers for mobile devices that run Windows, such as phones, tablets and similar System on a Chip (SoC) platforms.Priced at $299, Microsoft predicts board that will find a home with ...
Google Announces General Availability Release for Google APIs Client Library for .NET
Saturday, March 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has announced the general availability of the Google APIs Client Library for .NET. The library is an open-source effort, hosted at NuGet, that lets developers building on the Microsoft .NET Framework to integrate their desktop or Windows Phone applications with Google’s services. It handles OAuth 2.0 integration, streaming uploads and downloads of media...
$399 Gets You the Kinect Developer Kit
Monday, July 1, 2013 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced the availability of new Kinect for Windows developer kit program that costs just $399. It's a limited program for developers, so apply soon to get into this awesome dev kit program. Can't wait for the new generation Kinect for Windows sensor? You can apply to take part in the Kinect for Windows developer kit program. This program, which begins in...
