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Many of the Windows Runtime APIs in Windows 8 that handle core operating system functions have been ported to Windows Phone 8. [33] Support for developing native games using C++/CX and DirectX has been added, by request from the game development industry. However, the Windows Phone XAML Framework is still based on the same Microsoft Silverlight ...
SP1 version (16.00.40219) is available as part of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 or through the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack 1 Compiler Update for the Windows SDK 7.1. [42] Visual C++ 2012 (also known as Visual C++ 11.0) was released on August 15, 2012. It features improved C++11 support, and support for Windows Runtime development ...
C++/WinRT was introduced as part of the Microsoft Windows SDK in version 10.0.17134.0 (Windows 10, version 1803) and is a component of Windows App SDK (formerly known as Project Reunion). Microsoft Visual Studio support for C++/WinRT is provided by an officially-supported extension.
Windows SDKs are available for free; they were once available on Microsoft Download Center but were moved to MSDN in 2012. A developer might want to use an older SDK for a particular reason. For example, the Windows Server 2003 Platform SDK released in February 2003 was the last SDK to provide full support of Visual Studio 6.0.
The promised standalone installer for Windows 7 and later was released on 2 May 2017, [103] but it had prerequisites not included with the package. [104] NET Framework 4.7 dropped support for Windows 8 and will only run on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and later. New features in .NET Framework 4.7 include: [105]
On November 12, 2014, Microsoft introduced .NET Core —an open-source, cross-platform [6] successor [7] to .NET Framework—and released source code for the .NET Core CoreCLR implementation, source for the "entire [...] library stack" for .NET Core, [8] and announced the adoption of a conventional ("bazaar"-like) open-source development model ...
Many 16-bit Windows legacy programs can run without changes on newer 32-bit editions of Windows. The reason designers made this possible was to allow software developers time to remedy their software during the industry transition from Windows 3.1x to Windows 95 and later, without restricting the ability for the operating system to be upgraded to a current version before all programs used by a ...
Microsoft announced that Windows 7, along with Windows Server 2008 R2, was released to manufacturing in the United States and Canada on July 22, 2009. Windows 7 build 7600.16385.090713-1255, which was compiled on July 13, 2009, was declared the final RTM build after passing all Microsoft's tests internally. [52]