When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At Build, Microsoft demoed a tool dubbed Project Centennial that lets developers convert desktop ...

Microsoft at its recently held annual Build conference had announced its tool to help developers port legacy Win32/.Net apps to Windows Store. Known as Desktop App Converter or Project Centennial, the ...

Not content to just let developers create new apps for Windows 10 from scratch, Microsoft announced last year a program to allow current Win32 applications to be ported to the Unified Windows Platform ...

Developers can use the Desktop App Converter to convert Win32- and .NET 4.6.1-based apps to run on the Universal Wndows Platform and related extensions and toolings. Since its debut at Build 2015 (yes ...

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The lack of more advanced functionalities and permissions, alongside the inability for users to run most legacy apps, is one of the big disadvantages looming over the possibility of widespread ...

There’s a lot of old Win32s, WinForms, and WPF code out there, and now Microsoft plans to make it easy to bring it to Windows 10’s UWP Platform transitions are hard, moving from silicon to silicon or ...

Microsoft has begun chopping at the roots of the UWP apps that populate the Microsoft Store, as it quietly announced plans to stop monetizing them using its own ad platform. That’s opened the door for ...