Microsoft has released the August 2016 edition of evaluation Windows developer virtual machines, allowing access to the latest tools, including Bash on Ubuntu on Windows and Project Islandwood.
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Microsoft has outlined the changes it'll be making to Project Islandwood - its open source tool to port iOS apps to Windows - with better implementation of UIKit combined with XAML.
Microsoft's project to bring Win32 apps to the Windows Store is far from complete, but the company now seems to be testing a version of its complete Office suite that can be downloaded from the Store.
Developer David Burela posted a video demoing the Windows Bridge for iOS tool. Converting the game Canabalt using Objective C code took just under five minutes. The tool is available on GitHub.
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With Project Astoria in a state of limbo, Microsoft has focused on Project Islandwood instead. It has updated the project's page with an app compatibility tool, which developers can utilize now.
Microsoft's Windows Bridge for iOS, codenamed Project Islandwood, is gaining momentum on GitHub and the company has now posted a guide to get more iOS developers to port their apps to Windows.
In a new blog post, Microsoft's Adam Denning goes over the current and future progress of Microsoft's Windows Bridge for porting iOS apps, along with a recap of new features introduced till now.
