Build 2020

May was a busy month for Windows, with the release of the Windows 10 May 2020 Update and Build.

If you read the headline and thought that this was some sort of an elaborate joke, this is not a drill. After years of developers asking Microsoft to build a package manager into Windows, those requests are finally being answered. Announced at Build 2020, the company is releasing a preview of the Windows Package Manager….

Microsoft has a dream, a dream that developers will build apps for all of its platforms with a single base of code. The company, for years, pitched the write once, run anywhere, idea to developers of Windows applications but the dream never materialized in a way that was widely adopted. The most notable attempt at…

At Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced a public preview of the company’s upcoming Fluid Framework. Since that announcement, the noise around the framework has been nearly silent aside from an early, but very limited look, at the functionality a few months back. This week at Build 2020, the company is once again talking about Fluid Framework and the…

This week, Microsoft’s Build conference is happening and the company is making announcements from updates to Windows development to new API features in Office. For users of Teams, and more specifically developers of apps for Teams, there are updates that you should know about. Microsoft has announced new extensions for both Visual Studio and Visual…