Desktop Bridge – The bridge between desktop apps and the Universal Windows Platform
First published on MSDN on Oct 13, 2016 A couple of years ago, during the BUILD conference, Microsoft announced a technology called Project Centennial, which goal is to help developers to take their existing traditional desktop applications and to bring them to the Store, along with the native full Universal Windows Platform apps.Convert your Electron app using the Desktop Bridge
First published on MSDN on Mar 14, 2017 Electron is an emerging development platform that allows to create cross-platform desktop apps (which means that they can run on Windows, Linux and macOS) using web technologies: everything is powered by HTML and CSS for the user interface and by Javascript for the logic and the user interaction.Unpackage, modify, repackage, sign an APPX
First published on MSDN on Aug 07, 2017 If you are working on a desktop application that you want to release on the Windows Store by packaging it with the Desktop Bridge, you’ll know that one of the requirements is that your application should work fine also on Windows 10 S, the new Windows edition that was introduced on 2nd May 2017.Deploying local application data in a Desktop Bridge app with Advanced Installer
First published on MSDN on Jul 31, 2018 One of the best practices when it comes to Windows development is to leverage the AppData folder (which lives under C:\Users\username\AppData) to store files which require read and write access and which are tightly coupled with the application.Desktop Bridge - Converting an installer with Desktop App Converter
First published on MSDN on Oct 17, 2016 Hopefully, thanks to the previous post, you have now a better picture of the scenario where the Desktop Bridge fits: it helps Win32 developers to start moving their first steps in the UWP world and getting benefits of some of his advantages, without having to rewrite the app from scratch.Packaging desktop applications with Advanced Installer Express
First published on MSDN on Apr 24, 2018 Other than releasing our own tools to support developers who want to package desktop applications using the Desktop Bridge (like Desktop App Converter or the Windows Application Packaging Project in Visual Studio), as Microsoft we have partnered with many popular 3rd party setup authoring tools.
