Microsoft has announced the release of the Windows UI Library Preview, which facilitates UWP app developers by cutting ties with SDK releases, and opting for more flexibility using NuGet packages.

The application works from Windows 11 all the way down to Windows 10, version 1809 (10.0; Build 17763), which is also known as the Windows 10 October 2018 update.

Microsoft today also released WinUI 3 Preview 1, which lets developers use UWP support in Win32 apps. Windows UI XAML Library (WinUI) is one of the popular Windows frameworks that Microsoft tried ...

Apps built with the Windows App SDK can utilize the best of UWP, including the modern and fluid UI framework that end-users have wanted every developer and app to adopt since 2015.

Luckily, it appears that Microsoft may be working closely with WhatsApp in bringing its Silverlight app to UWP, along with updating its UI with a refreshed interface that features Fluent Design.

Microsoft has remained mum on the specifics but it seems like the Centennial App Converter will simply wrap around the existing program and offer the clean install and uninstall of UWP. The ...

Microsoft says one argument for recoding existing Win32 apps into its new UWP format is that they won't slow down your PC over time, like Win32 apps do. The company also hopes the ease of porting ...

UWP builds on the WinRT model introduced with Windows 8, which added features to enable apps to roam settings through the cloud, as well as suspending and resuming rather than shutting down.