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Programming Windows: Hello, Visual Basic (Premium)
This was true in 1990 with Visual Basic 1.0. And it’s still true today, as Visual Basic lives on in […]

Programming Windows: Windows API Wrap-Up (Premium)
Despite having figured this out on my own, the news hit me pretty hard: UWP is basically the second-generation version […]

Google’s Fuchsia Developer Website Quietly Goes Live
Though the firm rarely comments on it publicly, Google is known to be plotting an Android and Chrome OS replacement […]

Programming Windows: Hello, Windows (Premium)
A Windows-based take on “hello, world” neatly explains why Windows API programming was never going to take over the world. […]

It’s Time to Bring (Real) Windows 10 to the Raspberry Pi (Premium)
The Raspberry Pi 4 is the first ultra-low-cost computer board from the Raspberry Pi Foundation to offer truly PC-like performance. […]

Programming Windows: Windows Application Basics (Premium)
That transition would take several years and several versions of Windows. But whether it was an operating environment on top […]

Programming Windows: Wintel (Premium)
The original design of Windows was inexorably tied to that of the Intel x86 microprocessors on which it and MS-DOS […]

Windows Terminal Shows up on the Microsoft Store
At Build 2019, Microsoft showed off a brand new terminal experience for Windows 10. The new Windows Terminal experience introduces […]