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Windows App SDK 1.8 release notes - Windows apps Provides information about what's new in Windows App SDK 1.8.

#WindowsAppSDK 1.8.5 (1.8.260209005) has shipped!

This is a servicing release that includes an updated ONNX Runtime and critical bug fixes for the 1.8 release.

Release notes: learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps...

Download package: www.nuget.org/packages/Mic...

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Windows App SDK 1.7 release notes - Windows apps Provides information about what's new in Windows App SDK 1.7.

#WindowsAppSDK 1.7.8 (1.7.260208002) has shipped!

This is a servicing release that includes critical bug fixes for the 1.7 release.

Release notes: learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps...

Download package: www.nuget.org/packages/Mic...

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Dew Drop – February 10, 2026 (#4601) – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 10, 2026 (#4601)

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Release Release v0.97.2 · microsoft/PowerToys Installer Hashes Description Filename sha256 hash Per user - x64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.97.2-x64.exe 54A39F62334F7481C1BDDE8ABF4928F2E74F100A049F50C7339DABFD34134C98 Per user - ARM64 PowerTo...

PowerToys release v0.97.2 is now available

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KB5077202 Windows 11 Insider Dev build 26300.7760 (25H2) - Feb. 9 Windows Insider Blog: Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7760 (KB5077202) to the Dev Channel. Changes in Dev Channel builds and updates are document...

KB5077202 #Windows11 #WindowsInsiders Build 26300.7760 version #25H2 released to Dev channel
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Dew Drop – February 9, 2026 (#4600) – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 9, 2026 (#4600)

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I replaced Windows 11’s default apps with these open-source tools Discover five lesser-known open-source apps that significantly improve the clipboard, files, apps, sharing, and media playback on Windows 11.

5 amazing open-source apps that everyone should use on Windows 11 — but not the ones you might be thinking of

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#windows #devtools #oss #opensource #windowsapps #utilities

Want to set up your machine in just one step? Check out WinGet Configuration 😎 Here's a blog post to help you get started 👇
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Dew Drop – February 5, 2026 (#4598) – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 5, 2026 (#4598)

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ZoomIt v10.0, Sysmon 1.5 for Linux, Sigcheck v2.91, RAMMap v1.62, and RDCMan v3.12 | Microsoft Community Hub ZoomIt v10.0 This update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, adds a video clip editor for trimming recordings before saving them and...

ZoomIt v10.0, Sysmon 1.5 for Linux, Sigcheck v2.91, RAMMap v1.62, and RDCMan v3.12

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Dew Drop – February 4, 2026 (#4597) – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 4, 2026 (#4597)

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Mixing Rendering Technologies on Windows | DirectX Windows has many methods of rendering images to the screens. Those include GDI, Direct3D, Direct2D, DirectWrite, XAML, Windows Forms, Win2D, and WinUI. Windows 10 brought support for mixing some of…

Mixing Rendering Technologies on Windows | DirectX

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#windowsdev #directx #xaml #winui #win2d #ui #winforms

YouTube video by Noraa on Tech ALL Commands of the new Windows App Development CLI explained! - Tutorial

I created a video explaining the new Windows App Development CLI and all its commands!

Check it out: youtu.be/_rTsqUBpMwc

#mvpbuzz #windows

My first contribution to the awesome-copilot repo was just merged... A skill for the winapp CLI.

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Dew Drop – February 2, 2026 (#4595) – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 2, 2026 (#4595)

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Building an MCP App with C# – A Color Picker Sample Hi! Airport Time = Coding Time! ✈️ I’m sitting at the airport right now, and you know what that means – perfect time to cook up some code! I just discovered that MCP Apps were announced, and …

Building an MCP App with C# – A Color Picker Sample

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.NET AI Essentials - The Core Building Blocks Explained - .NET Blog Learn how Microsoft.Extensions.AI provides a unified API for building intelligent .NET applications with any LLM provider - one interface, endless possibilities, with built-in middleware, telemetry,…

.NET AI Essentials – The Core Building Blocks Explained | by Jeremy Likness

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Release 0.97.1: CursorWrap improvements (#44936) · microsoft/PowerToys Summary of the Pull Request Updated engine for better multi-monitor support. Closing the laptop lid will now update the monitor topology New settings/dropdown to support wrapping on horizontal, ve...

PowerToys Release v0.97.1 - CursorWrap Improvements

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Release Release v0.97.1 · microsoft/PowerToys Installer Hashes Description Filename sha256 hash Per user - x64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.97.1-x64.exe DB4AE01B6A8A9FC056A8A5FA579AA276D5E713455532AF33D11895FA381FAA0D Per user - ARM64 PowerTo...

Microsoft PowerToys just got a minor update to 0.97.1

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What's new for Windows app developers - Windows apps Learn what's new for developers in Windows 11 and tools

Don't miss out on the latest Windows development tools and updates. Check out learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps... regularly!

Pro Tip for managing 10 Coding Agents in the Windows Terminal

Pro Tip for managing 10 Coding Agents in the Windows Terminal | with Scott Hanselman

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Giving Agents a Visual Voice: MCP Apps Support in VS Code VS Code now supports MCP Apps, enabling AI agents to display interactive UIs for richer developer workflows.

Today, the MCP community is announcing MCP Apps, the first official MCP extension. VS Code is the first major AI code editor with full MCP Apps support.

With MCP Apps, tool calls can now return interactive UI components that render directly in the conversation. Learn more: aka.ms/MCPApps/Blog

[Video Podcast] AI-Driven Development with Olivia McVicker In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Olivia McVicker, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft about AI-driven software development. The conversation covers the current, mainstream AI coding…

Awesome interview alert! InfoQ Podcast host Thomas Betts sits down with Olivia McVicker (Microsoft) to talk about AI-driven software development, from today’s mainstream tools to what’s next!

Listen here 👇
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Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google The Maia 200 is rolling out to data centers today

Microsoft is announcing its own Maia 200 AI chip today. It goes head-to-head in performance against Google and Amazon's AI chips, and Microsoft is using Maia 200 to host GPT-5.2 and others for Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Details here 👇 www.theverge.com/news/867670/...

String Performance: The Fastest Way to Get a String’s Length Retrieving the character count of a string in .NET has various methods: using Span with Length, Length, or Enumerable.Count(). This article will prove which is the fastest method.

String performance in .NET:
One tiny choice. Big runtime implications.
If you care about clean, fast code, you’ll want to read this.
#dotnet10 #CodePerformance #MVPBuzz
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For those who need it, we're currently rolling out a Windows 11 Paint app update which adds the ability to collapse the toolbar at the top so it takes up less space

As always, appreciate your feedback 🙏

Details here: blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...

Coding Standards: Mastering Tuples in .NET In .NET, tuples are immutable data structures that group multiple values of different types, simplifying code by avoiding custom classes. They are useful for returning or passing multiple values. N…

Tuples in .NET are more than just shorthand—they’re powerful tools when you use them right. 🎯
Master the patterns that boost readability and performance, and avoid the common pitfalls that trip up even experienced developers. 👇
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WinDev Helper - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio Code - Build beautiful, performant WinUI apps with VS Code. Debug, build, package, and deploy Windows apps powered by the Windows App SDK.

WinDev Helper - A WinUI Extension for VS Code

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#windowsdev #winui #windowsappsdk #vscode #dotnet

Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI We are excited to announce the public preview of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp), a new open-source c

We are excited to announce the public preview of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp), a new open-source command-line tool designed to simplify the development lifecycle for Windows applications across a wide range of frameworks and toolchains. blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...

Making foreach on an IEnumerable allocation-free using reflection and dynamic methods In this post I describe why foreach sometimes allocates, and show how you can use DynamicMethod and Reflection.Emit to go allocation-free

Making foreach on an IEnumerable allocation-free using reflection and dynamic methods | by Andrew Lock

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