Announcing the immediate availability of the January 2016 Update of XAML Spy 3. XAML Spy Express, the free edition of XAML Spy, has been activated in this release, and provides a full-blown visual inspector for free.  This release comes with the storage explorer, which enables inspection of the file storage that is associated with an app. Visit xamlspy.com for...

Announcing a massive update of Intense Toolkit. Intense Toolkit is a set of controls, templates, and tools for building Universal Windows Platform apps on Windows 10. The project is completely open source, offering a great start for creating stunning Windows 10 apps.  Intense Toolkit version 0.2.0, released today, improves the existing templates and...

First Floor Software is excited to announce the immediate availability of the first public preview of XAML Spy 3. XAML Spy 3 is a major new release, with lots of new features and changes. Among others version 3 adds support for Android and iOS apps build with Xamarin technology. The new XAML Spy API enables you to automate your apps, and works great...

Announcing a new toolkit for developing Universal Windows Platform apps; Intense. The toolkit provides controls, templates, and tools for building UWP apps with XAML. The Intense Templates extension for Visual Studio 2015 adds five new project templates, a great starting point for building beautiful apps. Intense Templates (formerly known as UWP Templates)...

Universal Windows apps provides two options to navigate to an external app. Both options are implemented using XAML, one uses the HyperlinkButton, the other uses the Hyperlink text element in either a TextBlock or RichTextBlock. Adding external navigation is really easy, just set the NavigateUri property to the absolute uri of the external resource. Using...

Announcing additional project templates for creating Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps in Visual Studio 2015. The project templates serve as a great starting point for creating different type of UWP apps. The Visual Studio extension is named UWP Templates, and includes the following new project templates; Blank App, a basic XAML project with a...