I've released version 2.0 of Star-Studded, my TMDb client for Windows. Redesigned movie and show pages, added some nice animations, made everything smaller in general, from fonts to images. I've also learned to use different font colors for better visual hierarchy 😅

It's just a neater experience now. The app should be faster, too.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9ppg88rc8w4f?&ocid=mastodon

#dotnet #winui #windev

Windows App SDK v2.2.0 Stable Channel Release Notes

https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/discussions/6554

#windowsdev #windowsappsdk #winui #dotnet #cpp #csharp #xaml #windev

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 486 - Week Ending June 5, 2026

https://zc.vg/0IC3d?m=0

#dewdrop #newsletter #azure #javascript #blazor #windowsdev #xaml #winui #csharp #dotnet #cpp #ai #mcp #dotnetmaui #devops #agile #appdev #python #podcasts #m365 #sqlserver #data #powershell #cli

winapp CLI v0.3.2 Release | GitHub

https://github.com/microsoft/winappCli/releases/tag/v0.3.2

#windowsdev #msix #winui #windowsappsdk #commandline #cli #winapp

Microsoft.UI.Reactor (Reactor) - A declarative UI framework for building native Windows desktop apps in pure C#. No XAML. No data binding. No view models.

https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-reactor/

#windowsdev #winui #dotnet #rust #csharp #windev #reactor

Apparently #microsoft introduced a new way of writing #UI s for #windows :

A #react like MVU based library as a successor to #XAML - including a crate to create performant and efficient native #Rust apps for windows:

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/4479

#rustlang #winui #winui3

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 484 - Week Ending May 20, 2026

https://zc.vg/h6WSi?m=0

#dewdrop #newsletter #javascript #aspnetcore #azure #css #cpp #windowsdev #winui #dotnet #csharp #ai #mcp #devops #agile #gamedev #appdev #podcasts #m365 #sqlserver #data #powershell #python

Windows App SDK Version 2.1.3 Stable Channel Release Notes | Microsoft Learn

https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps/windows-app-sdk/release-notes/windows-app-sdk-2-0?pivots=stable#version-213

#windowsdev #winui #dotnet #cpp #csharp #windowsai #xaml #windowsappsdk

⚡ Build smarter Windows apps with local AI capabilities.

Alvin Ashcraft’s session at Nebraska Code() explores Phi Silica, Microsoft Foundry, OCR APIs, object detection, Recall APIs, and integrating AI directly into WinUI and WPF applications using C#.

#WinUI #CSharp #WindowsAI #Nebraska