Microsoft today unveiled the Desktop App Converter, which lets developers bring existing Windows applications to the Windows Universal Platform (UWP). The company is hoping to bring the 16 million ...

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Google has announced Flutter 2, a major upgrade to its framework for building user interfaces for mobile, the web and desktop. Flutter promises to allow developers to use the same codebase to build ...

Microsoft is reportedly preparing to remove the compiler toolchain from its Windows SDK for Windows 8, in what appears to be an attempt to force developers into building Metro style apps. Microsoft is ...

Visual Studio App Center, a mobile-centric resource for building, testing, releasing and monitoring apps, now supports desktop development. Microsoft this week announced a preview release of the App ...

Here's what went wrong with the Windows App Store and how Microsoft is trying to get things right for the future. But is it ...

AJAX is the web development buzzword du mois. AJAX programming isn't really anything revolutionary. It is simply a means of combining a bunch of web-oriented technologies in a way that enables ...

Microsoft’s newly released Windows 10 offers developers what at first blush appears to be a can’t-miss pitch: Write your app once and run it anywhere Windows exists. With Microsoft’s push toward “one ...

Developers likely know all too well the struggle of having to create and maintain a consistent experience between mobile, desktop and web apps. Flutter has already bridged the gap between Android and ...

The demand for web-based applications is being fueled by the adoption of new portable devices and users who are eschewing their traditional desktops for the benefits of work anywhere portability.