In this article, I'll discuss how to use the Windows Runtime media API to play both music and video files within a Windows Store app. To demonstrate the media APIs I'll create a sample application ...

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Microsoft has announced an early public preview of Rust/WinRT, or Rust for the Windows Runtime (WinRT), and has posted it on GitHub. The Rust/WinRT project is a "WinRT language projection" or software ...

Some users are facing an issue in which they are not able to open Microsoft Store apps such as Photos, Calculators, Maps, etc. They are also not able to find the Microsoft Store. In fact, they even ...

The Windows UI Library 3 is, as the three already indicates, not the first version of Windows UI. The development of the Windows UI Library began in 2012, without it being called that yet. With ...

Cloud Computing promises on-demand scale and elasticity. Windows Azure is one of the best implementations of the Cloud. To exploit the features of the Cloud, it is important to understand how ...

Microsoft's Windows Update offers a convenient way to update not only Windows but certain Microsoft products. However, that is where the convenience begins and ends ...