Feature samples

Windows Universal samples

Focused samples showing API usage patterns for common scenarios with each UWP feature.

Windows Composition samples

Samples and demos showing how to create beautiful apps using Windows.UI.Composition and the Fluent Design System.

Showcase samples

End-to-end app samples showing real-world integration of numerous UWP features

• VanArsdel shopping
• VanArsdel inventory
• Coloring book
• BuildCast video player
• SnapGold photo-sharing app

Other

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.

Mini-app samples

Small but realistic apps showing related UWP features working together

• XAML hosting API sample
• Photo editor in C++/WinRT
• Customers orders database sample
• Payment request API sample
• Lunch scheduler
• Quiz game with remote system session (Project Rome)
• PhotoLab sample app
• RSS reader
• Annotated audio
• Family notes
• Hue light controller
• Traffic app
• Network helper
• DirectX marble maze sample

Task snippets

Copy-and-paste snippets for small but useful UWP-related tasks

Windows-task-snippets

• Windows UI Library

  Backward-compatible versions of Windows UI features including UWP XAML controls, and Fluent styles and materials.

• Windows Community Toolkit

  A collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services. Install gallery app - View docs

• Windows Template Studio

  A Visual Studio 2017 extension that accelerates the creation of new UWP apps using a wizard-based experience. Install extension

• Adaptive Cards

  A new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.
  Docs - Schema - Samples - Visualizer

• Win2D

  An easy-to-use WinRT API for immediate mode 2D graphics rendering with GPU acceleration, available to C# and C++ developers. View docs

• Windows dev box setup scripts

  Scripts to simplify setting up a Windows developer box.

• Windows Packaging samples

  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.

• MSIX Package Support Framework

  Tools, libraries, documentation and samples for creating app-compat fixups to enable classic Win32 applications to be distributed and executed as packaged apps.

• MSIX Packaging SDK

  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.

• Xbox ATG samples

  Game development samples written by the Microsoft Xbox Advanced Technology Group.

• DirectX 12 graphics samples

  DirectX 12 graphics samples that demonstrate how to build graphics-intensive applications on Windows. View blog

DirectX toolkit

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

• Windows 10 driver samples

  Game development samples written by the Microsoft Xbox Advanced Technology Group. View docs

• Windows Driver Frameworks

  Source code for the Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF - a set of libraries that make it simple to write high-quality device drivers. View docs