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Professional developer tools, services, and subscription benefits for small teams.
End-to-end solution to meet demanding quality and scale needs for teams of all sizes.
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| Microsoft Advertising SDK | Add in-app ads to your apps. |
| Microsoft Store Services SDK | Integrate customer engagement features with your apps, including targeted Dev Center notifications and A/B tests. |
| Windows App Certification Kit | Tests to run before you submit an app to the Store |
| Windows Store badges | Logos and art to promote your app |
| Bing | Search, Maps, translation, speech, ink, Cortana |
| Microsoft Azure developer tools | Build, debug, deploy, and manage multi-platform, scalable apps and services. |
| Azure App Service | Add a cloud back end to your mobile app or web app. |
| OneDrive | Access OneDrive or SharePoint data from your app. |
| Microsoft Graph | Get users, groups, mail, calendars, contacts, files, tasks and more from Office 365. |
| Office | Integrate with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, SharePoint, and more. |
| Groove Music | Support music purchases, streaming, and images. Compatible with the Microsoft Affiliate Program. |
| Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2017 | Debug an application running on a different computer or device. |
| Windows Installer | Install and configure desktop applications. |
| HoloLens emulators and templates | Build and test applications for HoloLens. |
| Bash on Ubuntu on Windows | The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a new Windows 10 feature that enables you to run native Linux command-line tools directly on Windows, including Bash. |
| Multilingual App Toolkit | Localization and translation |
| Middleware Solutions | View middleware providers supporting Windows that offer solutions for development, analysis, user acquisition, and monetization. |
| UWP Community Toolkit | A collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services to simplify common developer tasks building UWP apps for Windows 10. |
| Windows Template Studio | Quickly build a UWP app using this wizard-based UI that has the pages, framework and features to get your app running using Windows 10 patterns and best practices. |
Looking for Window SDKs, Windows Phone SDKs, and earlier versions of the tools? See the archive
