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At Build in September 2011, Microsoft put out an architecture diagram, which in Microsoft circles has become either famous or infamous depending on your perspective. The diagram shows Windows Runtime ...

Microsoft’s drift from the proprietary and toward the universal is making its mark on all aspects of Windows software development, including writing C++ software that uses the Windows Runtime (WinRT), ...

Based on the image below, and what I have seen written on most blogs in reaction to it and what MS has been saying, it seems that WinRT is assumed to be a sort-of an updated CLR/.NET for writing ...

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Microsoft unveiled its development strategy for Windows 8 at its BUILD conference last month in Anaheim. One of the biggest development shifts was the announcement of the Windows Runtime (WinRT).

Will WinRT thrive in the guise of UWP, or are we looking at a repeat of the demises of Silverlight and ActiveX? With the start of the Build conference a day away and the official Microsoft Build app ...

Microsoft unveiled a preview of authoring support in an update to the C#/WinRT tool used to help C# developers more easily work with interfaces to the Windows Runtime, the underlying infrastructure ...

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here. I've followed tutorials, read blogs, read StackOverflow, etc, and I can't figure this out. I have a dictionary of key/value pairs I want to bind to a ListBox.