NotificationAreaKit is a comprehensive solution for WPF developers needing reliable tray icon functionality. It provides a clean, object-oriented API that handles the complexities of Windows interop, ...

Android offers deep customization, and free icon packs are an easy way to refresh your home screen. Top picks include Verticons’ vertical icons, N-thing’s Nothing-style pixels, Circons’ clean circles, ...

Bottom line: Microsoft is making a significant effort to turn its official app store into a profitable or even enticing service for programmers and software entrepreneurs. Bringing apps to the store ...

Microsoft announced that, starting today, individual Windows developers will no longer have to pay for publishing their applications on the Microsoft Store. The company said that developers can now ...

I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola Razrs were all the rage. Since then, I've written about everything from consumer electronics to internet culture ...

OpenSilver, an open-source, WebAssembly-based reimplementation of the deprecated Microsoft Silverlight, now supports .NET MAUI Hybrid for cross-platform web and native app development. The project, ...

The first .NET 10 preview release was pretty lackluster, but Microsoft is making up for that with .NET 10 Preview 2, which, among other things, adds some improvements to the Windows Presentation ...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of .NET 9, a major upgrade of its open source software development platform that features scads of performance enhancements and new capabilities for ...

I was excited to see Microsoft bring the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) back from the dead this past year: At Build 2024 back in May, it announced that it would continue investing in this ...

.NET 9 brings new tools and updates to WPF and WinForms, simplifying asynchronous tasks and enhancing accessibility in modern desktop applications. WPF is a modern, vector-based UI framework for ...