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VS Macros are back!
VBA based macros were removed in VS 2012. Since then, the community has stepped up and released extensions to fill that gap, like Extending Visual Studio with your new buddy, VsCommandBuddy.A couple...
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Kickstart your next UWP App with new Code Snips and Windows App Studio OSS Libs
You've maybe seen the apps you can create with the Windows App Studio? Thought it would be cool if you could create app's like that, without the Windows App Studio? That you just want the components...
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3D Network Printing with IoT Core
Have a 3D printer at home that you want to share? Is it too loud and you'd rather keep it in it's own special place?You can now setup your 3D printer as a network printer, with a little help from...
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Coding4Fun May 2016 Round-Up
May is a weird kind of month. It's the run up to summer, with everyone, young and old, planning and dreaming about their coming vacations. It's also the time we start thinking about the projects we...
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Creating AR and VR Apps on Windows
With summer unofficially here, many of us will be looking for summer projects to keep us cool, and what's cooler than creating Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality apps?First here's a Microsoft...
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MagicMirror²
Last year we highlighted a project inspired by the MagicMirror project, "Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the..." Smart Mirror!Only seemed fair to now highlight the new and improved MagicMirror...
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Mole is back and now free!
Remember back in the day 2007 when Visual Studio debug visualizers were new and hot?Remember how WPF/XAML debugging wasn't all that it could be (cough)?Remember how Josh Smith and Karl Shifflett...
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SIMD + C# = Parallelism on a Single Core
This isn't something I usually highlight, but when Martin Woodward pointed me at this post, I thought you all might dig it.Eoin Mullan has written up a great post on using a new .NET 4.6 feature that...
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Magic Mirror, Windows 10, IoT and UWP Style
I guess Magic Mirror projects are the "new shinny." Last year it was, "Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the..." Smart Mirror! Last week it was MagicMirror².This week we've got another, one that uses...
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Scripty, a C# T4 Alternative
Today's Visual Studio extension is, in short, code that writes code.If you have boiler plate code or code that's generated at build, you might of heard about T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit)....
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Microsoft Bot Framework Post Round-Up
Since Build, I've been accumulating Microsoft Framework Bot related tutorials and posts. Today I'm sharing them with you!LATE BREAKING NEWS: Wanna Build a Bot? In Palo Alto?Join us on June 21-22 for a...
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Open? Robots? Open Roberta!
Today's Hardware Friday post doesn't include any Microsoft code, tech, services or anything (actually the project is supported by Google!... :O )So while I might get in trouble for this post, I just...
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Pretty Up your Code Comments with Better Comments
Comments, love them or hate them, there's a place for them. What if you could pretty them up? Make different comments unique, actually put them to work!Today's Visual Studio Extension Monday project...
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Babylon.js 2.4
David Catuhe is back with the news about the latest version of Babylon.js. Make sure you read to the end to see a great example of it being used in the real world, in a highly visible way...What’s new...
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Robot Kit, Raspberry PI 2 and Windows 10 IoT Core
The team at Xpirit have been publishing a magazine, one that if you're here I bet you'll like. Check it out at XPIRIT MAGAZINE #2In this edition, Marco Mansi, wrote a great 7 page article, one that's...
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Drag and Drop Forms with XAML Power Tools
Karl Shifflett whose project we highlighted a few weeks ago, Mole is back and now free! is back with another project.This Visual Studio Professional/Enterprise extension will make turning your WPF MVVM...
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Coding4Fun Second Quarter 2016 Round-Up
The Second Quarter was fun. We had a number of projects get to V1 and it was an interesting run-up to this week's RTW/GA (Release To Web/General Availability) of so many projects...Coding4Fun...
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UWP App and the Azure IoT Hub
Want to play with the Azure IoT Hub but don't have an IoT device? Jon Gallant shows off a way you can do so with a simple UWP App, making it look pretty darn easy...How to Get Started with Azure IoT...
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Smashing your SQL with SqlSmash
I don't highlight SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) related extensions very often (at all?) but when I saw this one, and that there's a free Community Edition available, sharing it was a...
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You and now UWP with Buildbox
Are you a budding Universal Windows Platform game builder, yet the thought of all the coding keeping you away? Got this great game idea that you want to prototype? Buildbox is here and now supports...
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