Focused samples showing API usage patterns for common scenarios with each UWP feature.
Samples and demos showing how to create beautiful apps using Windows.UI.Composition and the Fluent Design System.
End-to-end app samples showing real-world integration of numerous UWP features
Desktop app bridge to UWP samples
Samples that demonstrate the Desktop Conversion Extensions for converting classic desktop apps (such as Win32, Windows Forms, WPF) and games to UWP apps and games.
Small but realistic apps showing related UWP features working together
Copy-and-paste snippets for small but useful UWP-related tasks
Backward-compatible versions of Windows UI features including UWP XAML controls, and Fluent styles and materials.
A collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services. Install gallery app - View docs
A Visual Studio 2017 extension that accelerates the creation of new UWP apps using a wizard-based experience. Install extension
A new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.
Docs - Schema - Samples - Visualizer
An easy-to-use WinRT API for immediate mode 2D graphics rendering with GPU acceleration, available to C# and C++ developers. View docs
Scripts to simplify setting up a Windows developer box.
Samples that show how to use Visual Studio 2017 to create Windows applications that can take the best of Win32 and UWP worlds in a single package.
Tools, libraries, documentation and samples for creating app-compat fixups to enable classic Win32 applications to be distributed and executed as packaged apps.
Enables developers on a variety of platforms to unpack packages for the purposes of distribution from either the Microsoft Store, or their own content distribution networks.
Game development samples written by the Microsoft Xbox Advanced Technology Group.
DirectX 12 graphics samples that demonstrate how to build graphics-intensive applications on Windows. View blog
Collections of helper classes for writing DirectX code in C++.
DirectX toolkit for DirectX 11
DirectX toolkit for DirectX 12
DirectXMath linear algebra library
DirectXTex texture library
DirectXMesh mesh geometry library
Game development samples written by the Microsoft Xbox Advanced Technology Group. View docs
Source code for the Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF - a set of libraries that make it simple to write high-quality device drivers. View docs