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Microsoft Releases Windows 10 SDK

Posted by Soulskill on from the tools-to-build dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today launched developer tools for the Windows 10 Technical Preview, including a software development kit (SDK). Developers can use the new tools, currently in preview, to start building universal Windows apps for Microsoft's upcoming operating system. A universal Windows app is Microsoft's verbiage for an app that can run across different form factors, including PCs, tablets, and phones. Developers can publish these apps in the Windows Store, which will be available across all types of Windows 10 devices.

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  1. Last week I tried to write a Win8.1 universal app by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It turns out I had to write the UI twice: once for tablets/desktops, and once again for "Windows Phone".

    IDK about you, but if I were advertising a "Universal" SDK, it would mean that one app would be able to write without any code changes between platforms - with the optional ability to change UI layout according to form factor, but graceful degradation otherwise.

    God fucking dammit.

  2. Re:Last week I tried to write a Win8.1 universal a by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pretty much this.

    One of the best things about CSS is you can create rules that will target various hardware types, resolutions, bit-depths and so on.
    Sadly so very few people actually use it because so many don't even know it exists, or the developers in question are those awful kinds that create bandwidth-wasting desktop websites instead of creating actual good websites in the first place that dynamically allocate resources based on hardware type, a thing that has existed for years now.

    Visual presentation should never have to interfere with HOW a program works.
    A window manager should mangle and twist a UI to fit any screen, even if you don't want it to, in order to force developers to DEAL WITH IT PROPERLY.
    The use of off-screen loading by setting UI elements beyond screen resolution can be done through setting a flag on said UI elements.
    All this minimum-width window crap pisses me off.
    Especially Chrome. Fuck you, you don't get to decide what size my windows should never shrink beyond.

  3. Re:So does this mean.... by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Windows 10 has an adaptive UX and user control api to get around this problem.
    Haven't used it yet but plan to fire a vm tonight and play with it.

    VS 2015 supports android and linux development with cordova. No really you did not miss read that. I like this newer Microsoft

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