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title: Feed providers
title: Dashboards and feed providers
description: Introduction to the feed providers feature in the Windows App SDK, a new integration point for third-party applications.
ms.topic: article
ms.date: 11/06/2023
ms.localizationpriority: medium
---

# Feed providers
# Dashboards
![Screenshot showing the Discover Dashboard](media/feed-providers/dashboard-screenshot.png)

Dashboards in the Widgets Board helps users stay on top of what matters, enabling them to easily discover useful information and empowering them to act on it. Feed providers enable users to see content from multiple apps and services at the same time. Users can access content from various apps directly on their Widgets Board without the need to open individual apps, ensuring they have the latest information at their fingertips.

## Feed providers

> [!NOTE]
> **Some information relates to pre-released product, which may be substantially modified before it's commercially released. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here.**
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- [Feed provider package manifest XML format](/windows/apps/develop/feeds/feed-provider-manifest)

Feeds in the Widgets Board helps users stay on top of what matters, enabling them to easily discover useful information and empowering them to act on it. Feed providers enable users to see content from multiple apps and services at the same time. Users can access content from various apps directly on their Widgets Board without the need to open individual apps, ensuring they have the latest information at their fingertips. Users also have the control to enable or disable feeds from the Widgets Board settings, tailoring the content to their preferences.
Users also have the control to enable or disable feeds from the Widgets Board settings, tailoring the content to their preferences.

![Screenshot showing the option to hide the dashboard panel in the Widgets Board settings](media/feed-providers/hidedashboard-screenshot.png)

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href: smart-app-control/code-signing-for-smart-app-control.md
- name: Test your app's signature with Smart App Control
href: smart-app-control/test-your-app-with-smart-app-control.md
- name: Widgets
- name: Widgets and Dashboards
href: widgets/index.md
items:
- name: Feed providers
- name: Dashboards
items:
- name: Overview
href: feeds/feed-providers.md
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href: feeds/implement-feed-provider-win32.md
- name: Feed provider package manifest XML format
href: feeds/feed-provider-manifest.md
- name: Widget providers
- name: Widgets
items:
- name: Overview
href: widgets/widget-providers.md
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description: This section of the documentation provides developer guidance for implementing Windows Widgets.
title: Develop Windows Widgets
title: Develop Windows Widgets and Dashboards
ms.topic: article
ms.date: 04/08/2026
ms.localizationpriority: medium
---

# Develop Windows Widgets
# Develop Windows Widgets and Dashboards

## Widgets

Windows Widgets are small UI containers that display text and graphics, associated with an app installed on the device. Widgets are displayed in a grid on the Widgets Board, a flyout surface that overlays the Windows desktop. They help users stay on top of what's important by surfacing personalized content and quick actions from installed apps. Widget content is defined using the [Adaptive Cards](https://adaptivecards.io/) format, which enables dynamic binding of data to the widget UI.

:::image type="content" source="../../design/widgets/images/widgets-hero-image.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Widgets Board. The board is a rounded rectangle with the time displayed at the top, followed by a search bar. The rest of the board is a grid of rounded rectangles each representing a widget. The individual widgets show top news stories, current weather, current traffic, etc.":::

For design guidance, see [Windows Widgets design overview](../../design/widgets/index.md).

## Dashboards

Dashboards in the Widgets Board helps users stay on top of what matters, enabling them to easily discover useful information and empowering them to act on it. Feed providers enable users to see content from multiple apps and services at the same time. Users can access content from various apps directly on their Widgets Board without the need to open individual apps, ensuring they have the latest information at their fingertips.

![Screenshot showing the Discover Dashboard](media/feed-providers/dashboard-screenshot.png)

## In this section

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