August 2, 2016 at 20:19Windows 10 Anniversary Update Now Available
At 20:00 Moscow time, the assembly of Windows 10 1607 aka Anniversary Update became available.
You can read more about the news for the average user in this article .
What's new for the developer at the time of this update:
- the ability to use Bash in a Windows environment
- the ability to add APIs from UWP to your classic Windows application
- the ability to publish applications for XBOX ONE and Hololens
- .NET Core 1.0.0 and Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio 15 Preview 3
Now it’s easier to manage your Linux machines from under Windows thanks to Bash support.
Specific Linux tools for developing and creating projects will also become available.
It may have started some Linux applications and even the Ubuntu Unity desktop shell on Windows .
Thanks to Project Centennial, it became possible to convert your classic application and use all the APIs from the Universal Windows Platform. You can then publish this application in the Windows Store.
Examples from the new API can be found here .
Detailed conversion instructions are available here .
Now you can add XBOX One support for your UWP application.
The application may become available for XBOX if there is a special mark in the Windows Store.
detailed instructions
A new set of cross-platform API called .NET Core received a stable release.
Together with Visual Studio Code, they are in fact already mature enough to develop programs and web applications.
It is worth noting that thanks to Visual Studio Code you can now write programs from under Linux / Mac for Windows.
In the new preliminary version , even more software constructs from C # 7 are available.
You can read about C # 7 in this article .
You can read more about the news for the average user in this article .
- download Windows 10 Anniversary Update (if you have an MSDN subscription)
- download the official ESD image from Microsoft servers at the link
- after a while, the update will be available in the Media Creation Tool
What's new for the developer at the time of this update:
- the ability to use Bash in a Windows environment
- the ability to add APIs from UWP to your classic Windows application
- the ability to publish applications for XBOX ONE and Hololens
- .NET Core 1.0.0 and Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio 15 Preview 3
Ability to use Bash in a Windows environment
Now it’s easier to manage your Linux machines from under Windows thanks to Bash support.
Specific Linux tools for developing and creating projects will also become available.
It may have started some Linux applications and even the Ubuntu Unity desktop shell on Windows .
The ability to add APIs from UWP to your classic Windows application
Thanks to Project Centennial, it became possible to convert your classic application and use all the APIs from the Universal Windows Platform. You can then publish this application in the Windows Store.
Examples from the new API can be found here .
Detailed conversion instructions are available here .
Ability to publish applications for XBOX ONE and Hololens
Now you can add XBOX One support for your UWP application.
The application may become available for XBOX if there is a special mark in the Windows Store.
detailed instructions
.NET Core 1.0.0 and Visual Studio Code
A new set of cross-platform API called .NET Core received a stable release.
Together with Visual Studio Code, they are in fact already mature enough to develop programs and web applications.
It is worth noting that thanks to Visual Studio Code you can now write programs from under Linux / Mac for Windows.
Visual Studio 15 Preview 3
In the new preliminary version , even more software constructs from C # 7 are available.
You can read about C # 7 in this article .