One way to clean up an existing API is to provide a fluent interface to it. The goal of a fluent interface is to simplify the consumption of your API by making it more readable and discoverable. If ...

Microsoft has been implementing a major design overhaul for all its Windows app and utility icons in line with its Fluent Design System for Windows. Now the company is taking its Fluent push to its ...

In this column, I'm going to demonstrate how to implement a fluent interface in a single class. The initial version of this interface supports typical actions on a SalesOrder class that holds a ...

At some point in the not-too-distant future, Microsoft will roll out an updated version of Windows 10 with its Sun Valley UI overhaul, consisting of a refreshed Start menu and other visual ...

Bojana Ostojic was working on Microsoft’s experimental mixed reality headset, HoloLens, when she realized that she was seeing the future of design at the company. “I have to say, coming into that ...

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Microsoft may not be releasing numerical upgrades to its Windows operating system these days (which is to say we will never see a Windows 11), but it is constantly tweaking and, at times, even ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the most exciting things Microsoft announced at Build 2017 was the Fluent Design System ...

At Microsoft's Build conference this week the company's designers have been showing off new Fluent Design tools that Windows 10 developers will be able to use in 2018 to design their UWP apps.