Chapter 8: Integrating Your Application with the Windows Ecosystem

Windows isn't just a platform that enables you to run your applications, it offers a wide range of features to increase your productivity, such as with Windows Hello, which you can use to log in in a safe and seamless way thanks to biometric systems such as face recognition and fingerprint readers, location services, to identify the position of the user, and Sharing, which you can use to easily transfer information from one application to another.

Windows offers a developer ecosystem that enables you to light up all these features directly in your applications to make them even more powerful. For example, the way that you can log in to your PC just by using your camera thanks to Windows Hello, you can enable that same experience in your applications. At the same time, since we're building a desktop application, it means that we can integrate with the operating system in ways that aren't supported by...