December 21, 2016
It is a fairly interesting time to see Microsoft promote RAD Studio Berlin Update 2 support for the Centennial bridge, as the only IDE providing this capability out of the box.
It is a fairly interesting time to see Microsoft promote RAD Studio Berlin Update 2 support for the "Centennial" bridge, as the only IDE providing this capability out of the box.
First, Microsoft Windows Developer account tweeted about it at https://twitter.com/windowsdev/status/807978252820221952 (see below):
Second, RAD Studio has been mentioned in the blog post "Conversion options for bringing your existing desktop app to the Universal Windows Platform using the Desktop Bridge" at https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/08/conversion-options-bringing-existing-desktop-app-universal-windows-platform-using-desktop-bridge, Towards the middle of the long post you can read:
"Additionally, Embarcadero has announced support for the Desktop Bridge in RAD Studio, which lets you directly output a Windows app package through the build process."
And third and even more relevant RAD Studio in mentioned in the official MSDN documentation at https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-root#convert.
For more information on our side, you can refer to:
- The new desktop Bridge landing page: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/windows-10-store-desktop-bridge
- The blog post (and webinar recording) by Pawel: https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/appx-development-for-windows-10-store (the video is at https://youtu.be/hEOk3Ztm-8g)
- My blog post offering an overview: https://community.embarcadero.com/article/news/16448-rad-studio-berlin-anniversary-edition-support-for-windows-10-anniversary-update-and-the-windows-store
There are more and more of our customers publishing Delphi and C++Builder applications on Windows Store, let us know of any relevant application that gets published so we can track it. As a reference, my "My MiniFigures" store app has been had 420 downloads so far, but I'm sure you can beat it!
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marcocantu @ 9:12AM | 7 Comments
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Microsoft mentioning RAD Studio Desktop Bridge Support
Yes, it shows how desperate Microsoft is. Windows 10
wasn't the success they believed, and they got a lot
of flack for its user data slurping feaatures and
forced updates, like the one that borked DHCP of many
users in the past days. And PC sales don't promise
anything good.
Meanwhile their market share in the mobile market
became just a noise fluctuation.
They need to assert desperately someone still believes
in their projects. And again, Centennial is a way to
lock users into the poor MS store. Something many
Windows users are not really interested in.
My next PC will be a Mac. Or just Linux, if I can get
rid of the Adobe applications I still use.
Comment by KMorwath on December 21, 12:25
Microsoft mentioning RAD Studio Desktop Bridge Support
Kent, I approved you comment even if I consider it more of a rant --
not against us for once. Microsoft clearly lost the "train" of the app
stores to the mobile world, but they are now doing it right and I think
they have a chance.
I disagree about the lock on Microsoft store, the status of installing
free or paid software on Windows is getting worse and worse over
time, you have to uncheck million options to avoid garbage, from
large or small vendors alike. Microsoft has a chance to fix this, and
they should try. In the past they tried locking developers in their
technology and failed (WinRT in Windows 8) now they have a much
more open mode with support of wider technologies.
Windows 10 is doing pretty well on desktop (close to nothing on
mobile) and this is why bringing over existing Win32 apps makes
sense, as they are desktop only.
Comment by Marco Cantù
[http://twitter.com/marcocantu]
on December 21, 13:46
Microsoft mentioning RAD Studio Desktop Bridge Support
When will Delphi has native appx generation?
Comment by Bryan James on December 21, 15:57
Microsoft mentioning RAD Studio Desktop Bridge Support
>I disagree about the lock on Microsoft store, the
status of installing
>free or paid software on Windows is getting worse and
worse over
>time, you have to uncheck million options to avoid
garbage, from
>large or small vendors alike.
Vendors? Most users' desktops are almost or entirely
filled with open source software these days, and (so
long as you download from a legitimate source)
malware/crapware isn't a problem. LibreOffice,
Firefox, Chrome, Google Earth, calibre, git,
mercurial, Rapidminer, Zulucrypt, DOSBox, PostgreSQL,
mathomatic, Filezilla, Gnucash, Virtualbox, Gimp,
etc... my systems are filled with open source for both
personal and professional use and I haven't had to
avoid garbage to do it. Just going to ninite.com will
give you a one-click way to install many of the most
popular open source and freeware Windows programs
without needing to run multiple installers. If
anything, I think these two developments have made
Windows software installation better over time. That
said, Windows is still woefully behind the elegance of
Linux's system-wide package management.
Comment by Joseph on December 22, 02:40
Microsoft mentioning RAD Studio Desktop Bridge Support
Tbh, i can't think of any major arguments against
windows 10 at the moment.
(Aside a recent forced update breaking my webcam
driver = causing a catastrophic boot failure.)
Sure there's always little annoyances here n there,
like the "new style" configuration screen, which still
uses the old one underneath,. all the privacy settings
you have to toggle after installation,. the multitude
of windows which are not resizeable and have a 3 line
listbox with over a hundred entries...
But all n all, it works, it's stable, it boots fast
(with a SSD),. and generally just works.
The webcam thing aside that is.
Theyll never catch up with android / ios on the mobile
market. I'm sure they realize that by now.
Comment by Thomas on December 22, 08:25
Microsoft mentioning RAD Studio Desktop Bridge Support
Marco Cantù wrote:
===== QUOTE =====
Windows 10 is doing pretty well on desktop (close to nothing on
mobile) and this is why bringing over existing Win32 apps makes
sense, as they are desktop only.
===== UNQUOTE =====
Something new is actually going on right now, which could make
the Centennial Bridge useless. Microsoft has announced that, as of
next year, they will release a brand-new version of their Windows
environment that will work on top of ARM microprocessors and
guarantee full compatibility with traditional Win32 apps. This
means that Win32 apps will work on cheap ARM-based tablets
and, presumably, even on the new Surface smartphone MS. So,
there won't be any need to upload your apps to the MS Store.
Comment by Pasquale Esposito
[http://www.espositosoftware.it]
on December 23, 07:39
Microsoft mentioning RAD Studio Desktop Bridge Support
regarding native apps and UWP interop might also be
interested in info from these:
-
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/02/01/ad
ding-uwp-features-existing-pc-software/?
MC=Windows&MC=AppDnDTool&MC=Vstudio#2A
Z5uYwdhgaRjsXA.97
- https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/windows/desktop/ff818516(v=vs.85).aspx?
MC=Windows&MC=AppDnDTool&MC=Vstudio
Comment by George Birbilis
[http://zoomicon.com]
on February 10, 00:53
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