The absent-minded professor is a classic image: someone who’s lost in deep thoughts all the time but pays very little attention to what’s going on right in front of them. There may be a little ...

Visual Studio will trigger your background task and stop at the added break point. Deep Background Background tasks are an important part of many Windows Store apps. It's a necessary part of the ...

Eliot Andres (left) and Matthieu Rouif (right) are the cofounders of Photoroom, an AI-based photo editing startup that has freshly reached a $500 million valuation ...

A new feature of Windows Store apps, utilizing background tasks will not only help circumvent some challenges from the Windows Store app lifecycle, but they can keep your app responsive to what's ...