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Maker, JavaScript Style, with Maker.js
So this isn't really hardware, but it's hardware'ish and too cool to keep in the story queue too long..Maker.jsMaker.js, a Microsoft Garage project, is a JavaScript library for creating and sharing...
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Visual Studio Gallery Shows Open Source Extension Love
In June I noticed and mentioned that the Visual Studio Gallery had been updated with a cool GitHub feature, connecting an extension to a repo, "Heat Margin Visual Studio Extension - Taking the...
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Health Cloud API, Web Tiles and Bex
Last week the Microsoft Band team released a number of interesting and cool features. We're also going to highlight two different examples of using these two features, one by Shawn Kendrot and another...
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Tipping your Raspberry Pi FEZ HAT
So you have a Raspberry Pi. It's great, but hey, it's the Internet of Things, plural. It would be cool if there were an easy way to connect to a bunch of devices easily, and that there were already C#...
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Visual Studio 2015 Release Day!
Update: Missed the event? You can see the keynote, sessions and more on demand here, https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Visual-Studio-2015-Final-Release-EventHow can I not make this today's...
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Air Hockey, Cost of Commerce and Adventurer Alliance
Microsoft Imagine is a great place if you like learning or teaching development. The projects vary and the tutorials take you from start to finish.Recently three new coding kits were released. What I...
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Windows Remote Arduino with Windows 10
Nearly all our recent Windows 10 IoT posts seemed to be focused all on Raspberry Pi don't they? Well David Jones, MS MVP, recently released this great post that shows that there's also an Arduino...
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Search Error On Extension
Today's Visual Studio Extension is something that will likely help everyone at some time or another (or all the time ;). We code, compile, run into an error, copy the text, paste it into your browser...
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Adding Cortana to your UWP App with Visual Studio 2015
With Visual Studio 2015 now available and today being the start of the Windows 10 release wave and Cortana being just so cool, this post from Arun Kumar Surya Prakash is a perfect for...
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Coding4Fun July 2015 Round-Up
Talk about ending the month with a bang! Visual Studio 2015 launched and Windows 10 Release [Tidal] Wave has just started...Coding4Fun BlogWindows 10 Universal App SamplesIoT - From Device to...
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Roaming Extensions? Yeah!
I've been blogging about Visual Studio Extensions here for about, well, forever. During that time I've found a few that I can't live without. A few that I always have to find and install again, and...
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allReady, a project where you can help and feel great about it...
Looking to be involved in a project where you can really help? Help and feel great about it, that you're doing something that will help your fellow man, when they need it most?Of just looking for a...
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Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2 & MinnowBoard MAX Released
Everyone knows Windows 10 was released last week, but not everyone knows that besides the desktop version was released, but Windows 10 IoT Core was released for two devices too, the Raspberry Pi 2 and...
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Copy-n-paste code faster with Paste To Target
I don't know about you, but there are many times when I play the find code line, find what I want to copy, copy, try to get back to that original code line, and finally paste.Marian Luparu had the some...
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Winning with Win2D
One of the new libraries I've not blogged about enough (cough... at all... cough) is one that will help the C++ or C# dev create GPU accelerated 2D Windows Runtime apps on Windows 8.1/WinPhone 8.1 and...
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Arduino for Visual Studio 2015 [Beta]
Visual Studio 2015 is out and for all your Arduino makers, the Visual Micro Arduino for Visual Studio 2015 [Beta] is now out too!Arduino for Visual Studio 2015This Extension requires Visual Studio C++...
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.NET Analyzer Package Round-up
Anders Lybeckers recently posted this great .NET Analyzer round-up. A few I've seen and highlighted but a couple I'd not, which makes his post one of my favorite kinds... :)A few recent related...
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Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (The open source app used by Professor...
As soon as I read Mansib Rahman's post yesterday (as I write this) I knew I found the perfect project to highlight. I mean, come on it's Professor Stephen Hawking, Intel, .NET, WinForms (got to show...
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Raspberry Pi 2 + .NET Gadgeteer + Windows 10 = FEZ Cream
Blake McNeill gets the Hat Tip today for posting about this in the MVP IoT Yammer Group.GHI Electronics has been a bunch of busy beavers releasing a ton of very cool components. Recently we...
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Go beyond "Blank App" with these Windows 10 VS 2015 Project Templates
Like many of you, I'm looking at jumping into developing Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform apps. So like most of you, I fire up Visual Studio, New Project and look for a Project Template to help me...
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