Do you UWP? Then you'll want this...
If you're a UWP Dev, this is something you'll want to get... now. As in now, now... Go!Introducing the UWP Community ToolkitRecently, we released the Windows Anniversary Update and a new Windows...
View ArticleGet your Grove on...
Looking to get started with IoT? Windows 10 IoT? Want to be a plug-n-plug maker?The recent MagPi mag and the Microsoft Grove IoT Kit might be JUST what you are looking for...Learn how to make with...
View ArticleHunt for Your Libs Here, at Awesome.NET!
How had I never heard of Awesome.NET?About Awesome .NETYour go-to .NET Toolbox. Our goal is to help you find the software and libraries you need. Made by developers for developers. The collection of...
View ArticleCoding4Fun August 2016 Round-Up
Summer is coming to a close, kids are back in school and vacations are done. If you missed any of our great highlighted projects, here's what was posted this month...Coding4Fun BlogEditor Enhancements...
View ArticleAzure the AT&T IoT Starter Kit
Sometimes we just need a quick leg up in out IoT journey. WinBeta's Michael Cottuli recently wrote about the AT&T IoT Starter Kit which is just that...AT&T’s IoT Starter Kit now available for...
View ArticlePack it up with the HTML Snippet Pack and Snippet Pack Project Template
Welcome back to the Mads Kristensen blog!Just kidding... But I wouldn't be surprised if you might think that, given the number of times we highlight his work. Well it's all his fault! If he would just...
View ArticleContent Projects with MonoGame
This year MonoGame, one of our favorite cross platform development frameworks, has gotten a new lease on life. First it shed its original connect to XNA and has now been embraced by the Xbox One,...
View ArticleFlappyHand - Unity3D, Arduino, some WiFi and You
Today's project from Matt is one of those that you might not use or do for your day job, but is something awesome to do on the weekends!FlappyHand: Unity3D game with an ESP8266 Arduino (Wemos)...
View ArticleA Look Behind Code Snippet Studio
Do I have to say it? Or can I just [Insert Greg's Standard Love of Snippets Snippet Here]?Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole and the creator of the Code Snippet Studio, was recently interviewed by...
View ArticleBig Screen Your Next App, UWP Dev on the Xbox One
Have you been dreaming of building the next great app for your Xbox One? Always wanted to build an app for your gaming console? Do you see the big black or white box, hooked up to that big screen and...
View ArticleTen Million Pi's!
Now that's allot of Pi! Eben Upton has written a little about their journey to 10 million and also introduces a new premium kit...Ten millionth Raspberry Pi, and a new kitWhen we started Raspberry Pi,...
View ArticleProject Reference Context Menu Extension
Sometimes it's the little extensions that add up to allot...How often do you need to get NuGet info on an assembly in your Project References? Maybe look them up on Stack Overflow? Or simply want to...
View ArticleCompositionProToolkit Your New Windows.UI.Composition Helper
Ratish Philip, whom we've highlighted before Adding a modern spark to your WPF apps, with WPFSpark, is back! This time with a very cool set of controls and helper classes for anyone doing UWP dev with...
View ArticleVSCode? IoT? Yes!
One of our, and likely your, favorite new code editors is VSCode. But it's Friday and we post hardware and IoT stuff today.So I'm thinking highlight the new IoT Extension for VS Code is something...
View ArticleShortcut to Shortcuts
ClickClickClickClick..."ZOMG, there must be a fast way to work in Visual Studio. I know there are keyboard shortcuts but who can remember them all? I wish there were a simple way for me to see and...
View ArticleGeneral Generator Tips
We're got two things to highlight today that will interest anyone who's worked on or thought about build a "generator" in your next game or project (cough... No Man's Sky... cough)The first is an great...
View ArticleCoding4Fun Third Quarter 2016 Round-Up
Looking over this list I think the thing that stands out most is the cool IoT posts. What do you think? What stands out most for you?Coding4Fun BlogUWP App and the Azure IoT HubSmashing your SQL with...
View ArticleBYOL VS VMs GA
Bring Your Own License Visual Studio Virtual Machines are now Generally Available!So you can can download Hyper-V, VMWare, Parallels and VirtualBox VM's that contain a non-expiring, non-trial Windows...
View ArticleAutomatic Graph Layout, now NuGet'able
Thinking about graphing something? Does the thought of writing the code to handle automated layout of your nodes make you brain hurt?Then you need to check out the Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout...
View ArticleDashboard your next IoT project with Power BI
Thought Sirui Sun's recent post something you all might find interesting and different. Honestly I would have never thought of using Power BI with an IoT project, but after seeing this, it almost seems...
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