Windows App Studio update for Windows 10 launch

 

We are excited to announce an update for this July in App Studio to coincide with the Windows 10 release.   We worked hard to both update App Studio for Windows 10 and introduce some new features that are designed to improve the quality and capabilities of apps you create. 

Here is a sampling of just some of the new features we introduced:

-            Responsive design using visual break points

-            Redlines for every layout

-            New reading web view

-            New nuget packages

-            Open source core libraries in GitHub

-            Simplified generated code

 

In addition to adding features that improve the quality of the apps, we also improved the features of App Studio itself.  The major changes are:

 

New Windows 10 simulator – We have a new simulator that is capable of showing the great experiences that come with Windows 10.  We think you’ll love this improved feature.

New Dialog to start Windows 10 apps – While this is still in preview mode, we have introduced a new path that allows you to create apps for Windows 10. This is the new default option for building apps.    At the moment, you can only generate code for PCs and Tablets, but Phone will be activated later for Windows 10 Mobile is ready.

Convert apps from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 – We built a nice tool to help you easily upgrade your apps from Windows 8.1 to be fully Windows 10 compatible.  We hope that this makes things easy for you!

Hosted Web Apps (HWA) – This is the new version of the Web App Template (WAT) for Windows 10 designed to take advantage of the new version’s features.  WAT still exists for 8.1 apps too!

We are also excited to announce that we just aligned our infrastructure to the just released Windows and Visual Studio RTM, so no need to worry about maintaining installs of the RC client!

We are also working on another release that will be available in the next couple of months.  We’re building some great things, so we can’t wait to show you.  As always, we’d love to hear your suggestions and comments, so head on over to the Forums or User Voice to let us know what’s on your mind! 

Happy app building!

 

-The Windows App Studio Team

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 30, 2015
  When available will be the generation of publication of Windows 10 packages?

• Anonymous
  July 30, 2015
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  July 31, 2015
  When available will be the generation of publication of Windows 10 packages(with Windows Phone 10)?

• Anonymous
  August 02, 2015
  Whenever I have an RSS feed that contains an embedded link from Youtube, App Studio doesn't recognise this link. The result is an app that's blank. Please enable or include the ability to display embedded codes in App Studio. Also an auto refresh feature for apps would be greatly appreciated. App users can go to a settings page in the app and configure how often they want the app to auto refresh. Please remove the "App Studio link in the about page" Finally a notification feature, when new updates arrive would also be very useful. The app can display "1 new article(s)" or "2 new article(s)" e.t.c. So that one can be notified about new articles in the app as opposed to the app being dormant until you manually refresh it.

• Anonymous
  August 04, 2015
  Hello. Do Win10 apps work good in Windows 7? Thanks.

• Anonymous
  August 09, 2015
  This is how to update a solution, I tired it for my App Studio sln but it didn't work for me perhaps it will for you Patrik

• Anonymous
  August 09, 2015
  oops msdn.microsoft.com/.../mt188198.aspx

• Anonymous
  August 11, 2015
  Please, Publish Package for Windows 10. We need it.

• Anonymous
  September 18, 2015
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  April 16, 2016
  Windos10 packages