Windows 10: Introducing the Windows Device Portal Wrapper project

Brink · Oct 7, 2016

With the release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update came a new set of tools: the Windows Device Portal. Device Portal is a small web server baked into every Windows device that you can enable once you’ve turned on Developer Mode. We built Device Portal as the starting point for a new generation of diagnostic tooling for Windows – tools that work on all your devices, not just your desktop.

We recently released our Device Portal Wrapper project on GitHub and have now added it to NuGet. Our goal with the wrapper is to make it easy to build new tools on top of Device Portal. It wraps the Device Portal REST APIs in a managed C# layer, providing an object model for responses and an easy way to connect with the Device Portal on your device.

Using your browser, you can access a variety of tools hosted on the device via the Device Portal Wrapper, each one a webpage backed by documented REST APIs. These tools include:

App installation, launch, and file management

Performance metrics, both all-up and per-process

Crash and live dump collection

ETW collection, both streaming and via WPR profiles

Networking information (ipconfig and profile management)

Platform-specific tools like Mixed Reality Capture on the HoloLens

More tools are being added, all the time

What can I use the wrapper for?

Currently, the wrapper supports the APIs that Device Portal users use most such as app management, performance metrics and the Isolated Storage explorer. Additionally, most of the device-specific features are supported, like Mixed Reality Capture (record video of the real world + Holograms) on HoloLens and screenshots on the Xbox. For an example of how you can build with the wrapper, you can check out the sample apps included in the repo:

Today the library can be used with either .NET 4.5.2+ or UWP. It can target any device operating on the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, as well as earlier Windows releases (10586) on IoT and HoloLens.

Coming up next

There are still a couple of REST APIs left to implement for our 1.0 release, which we’re currently working on. For 1.0, the wrapper will support all APIs across Core and each device family. Looking ahead, we want to support .NET Core so that you can use the wrapper from Linux as well.

In the future, the Device Portal team will be working to keep the wrapper up to date with new Device Portal REST APIs. We’re working hard to add new tools and features to Device Portal all the time, and we want to make sure that Wrapper stays up to date as well.

Device Portal <3 Open Source

The UI in Device Portal was made possible by SlickGrid, JQuery and Smoothie, among other great OSS libraries, so we’re no strangers to the awesome power of open source. One of our major design considerations in Device Portal was the use of a well-supported, documented protocol. We chose REST as every major programming language has an abundance of libraries to support communicating over REST with a server. And pretty much as soon as Device Portal was released, we saw enterprising developers building apps and tools using those REST APIs. So, we figured we’d help out and try to save everyone some time – thus the Wrapper project is MIT-licensed, and definitely accepting pull requests!
We can’t wait to see how developers use the Wrapper project and where they want to take it. We love feedback, so always feel free to submit a GitHub Issue with any questions or ideas you might have. If you have any feedback for Device Portal itself, we keep a close eye on our UserVoice – we want to know what tools would make your life easier, so let us know.

Happy hacking!
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EvanQue · Oct 7, 2016

Azure portal operating by coding

There are a lot of resources that can be created on Azure portal.

Can I do all the operating in C# code?

I want to create a notififcationhubs without any operating on Azure portal.

(Now I have to create a notificationhub on Azure portal to get the connectionstring for my project,

can I do all the operating in my project?)

Does it have to use powershell or other simple way ?

thanks

jocala · Oct 7, 2016

False Positives using Inno Setup

Thank you for the reply.

As most developers know, Inno Setup is a widely used program that creates installation wrappers for application distribution. Introduced in 1997, it's 7/8x/10 compatible.

I personally run a clean install of 10/14971 on a Surface Pro 3.

No Norton/McAfee

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