Nick looks at the preview release of Blend for Visual Studio 2015 and demonstrates some tips and tricks that will save you time and help you build better looking Windows Phone applications.

You've just implemented your first SQLite-backed Windows Store App! [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 4. Saving a new contact record. You should now be able to create or update a contact record ...

Windows App Studio's no-code tools probably can't help you create a visually stunning or unique experience, but it can definitely churn out a functional application in fairly short order.

Code’s command palette is the quickest way to interact with PWA Studio. Open it and start typing “PWA” to use its built-in filter to list all the PWA Studio actions.

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET.

Believe it or not you can use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code from your web browser, or at least, versions of it.