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Windows App Studio, formerly Windows Phone App Studio is a discontinued
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provided by
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for Windows app development. It allowed users to create apps that could be installed or published to the
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(Formerly known as the
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), and in addition provided the full source code in the form of a
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'solution'. The tool was used to develop
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.


Features

It allowed newcomers to
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to create software applications for the
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and
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(OS). It used a
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, allowing users to create an application that could run on
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and
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devices with little experience, and concentrated primarily on apps for
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s and content streams. It also allowed users to
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the
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of the
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made within the studio for further edits in
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. Some of its features included a
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and Image Wizard, customizable theme templates, and the ability to insert embedded content from sites such as
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,
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and
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. The service worked only for those with a
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and was provided completely free of charge.


History

On 27 May 2015,
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added support for
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and included new features such as live tile updatability,
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Data Sourcing, Bing Maps, and analytics for
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concerning how often an application gets opened, crashes, and is used by users who have installed it. In March 2016,
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released the ''Windows App Studio Installer'' for
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and
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devices which allowed developers to install and test
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developed in the Windows App Studio, and generate and scan
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s associated with the
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link of their application. In June 2017,
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announced that they would be shutting down the service on 1 December in the same year. However, ''Windows Template Studio'' is available as the successor to the Windows App Studio in the form of a
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extension to create apps. The
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of the succeeding project is provided at
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.


See also

* MIT App Inventor * Microsoft DVLUP


References


External links

* Integrated development environments Mobile software programming tools Visual programming languages Windows Phone software {{windows-stub