Microsoft continues to improve their Windows platform, which includes multiple technologies for building modern apps:
- Universal Windows Platform 6.0
- Fluent Design System
- XAML Standard 1.0
UWP is Microsoft's latest technology solution to build applications for its Windows suite of operating systems.
UWP provides a guaranteed API layer across multiple device types. You can create a single app package that can be uploaded to a single store to be distributed to reach all the device types your app can run on. These devices include Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox One, and Microsoft HoloLens.
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, released on October 17, 2017, includes UWP 6.0, which is built on a custom-forked implementation of .NET Core 2.0.
XAML and UWP provide layout panels that adapt how they display their child controls to make the most of the device they are currently running on. It is the Windows app equivalent of...