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How to remove the “Go to live visual tree” / “Enable selection” / “Display layout adorners” overlay when debugging?

January 26, 2023 by Tarik

Just simply uncheck Tools -> Options -> Debugging -> General -> Enable UI Debugging Tools for XAML -> Show runtime tools in application.

How does Windows 8 Runtime (WinRT / Windows Store apps / Windows 10 Universal App) compare to Silverlight and WPF? [closed]

September 25, 2022 by Tarik

At the lowest level, WinRT is an object model defined on ABI level. It uses COM as a base (so every WinRT object implements IUnknown and does refcounting), and builds from there. It does add quite a lot of new concepts in comparison to COM of old, most of which come directly from .NET – … Read more

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