Cake!... Baking a new Build with C# Make
I've been automating a number of builds recently. And like in the past, I have to learn a language and process. While the new Build system in TFS 2015/VSTS is awesome and so much nicer than past Builds...
View ArticleUWP++ with UWP Community Toolkit 1.1
Remember when I highlighted the UWP Community Toolkit, Do you UWP? Then you'll want this...? How I stated that if you build UWP app's, you HAVE to get it?Well it looks like the community really did...
View ArticleBlockly Windows 10 IoT
Using a Google tool to build your next Raspberry Pi Windows 10 app? Yep, here's how...Windows 10 IoT Core BlocklyIn this blog post you’ll learn about IoT Core Blockly, a new UWP application that allows...
View ArticleAlessandro is back with DelSole.CrossAnalyzers
Alessandro DelSole, of Code Snippet Studio fame, is back with a set of cool code analyzers and refactorings. There's no a ton, but that's the point. When you create your own analyzers and refactorings...
View ArticleSyncfusion HTML to PDF WebKit Powered (and free)
You know Syncfusion is one of my favorite companies. From their great free Succinctly ebooks to their awesome "Community license" (800+ controls & frameworks for free? Definition of...
View ArticleOpen Roberta is 2, well v2...
Remember the cool open robot platform we highlighted a few months ago? Open? Robots? Open Roberta!The good news is that they have continued to roll forward, recently releasing a new version, with new...
View ArticleExtending Visual Studio with menus, menus, menus and toolbars...
Carlos Quintero, Mr. Visual Studio Extension himself, is back with a great set of samples and how-to's on how you can add menus and toolbars to your next VS extensionHere's some of the other times...
View ArticleBuildbox Make You Own Game Series
A while ago we highlighted how Buildbox added UWP to its toolbox, You and now UWP with Buildbox. Today we're highlighting an awesome series they've put together, taking you from Zero to Playable Game,...
View ArticleTwo Pi... Updated and New Raspberry Pi IoT Kits
Last week Steve Teixeira something that should make all you you IoT'ers out there smile and rub your hands together in glee (and something you'll likely be adding to you Christmas list...)New and...
View ArticleCoding4Fun October 2016 Round-Up
Something of a quite month, with the build up to the Windows 10 event, a couple of conferences like DEVIntersection and NZ Ignite. Still we highlighted Cake, IoT, being in the music with the Kinect,...
View ArticleRadical Samples for the Surface Dial
The Surface Dial was just introduced to the world last week at the Windows 10 event.Think it might be a while until we get some code samples for it?Nope!There are already two complete samples for it in...
View ArticlePSA: Fixing Dirty COW on the Raspberry Pi
While Windows 10 IoT is not impacted by the Dirty COW vulnerability, we've covered the Raspberry Pi here quite a bit and felt it important to share this PSA from Rob Zwetsloot.Fix Dirty COW on the...
View ArticleSnippetica, 1,581 Snippets and Counting...
Josef Pihrt, who we've highlighted his Refactoring & Analyzers (Roslyn Tools, Analyzers, Refactorings and source...) and C# Snippets (The Essential C# Snippet Source...), is back, this time with an...
View ArticleNothing Cheesy in the "Cheese Edition" of the C# Yellow Book
Friend of Coding4Fun, Rob Miles, has updated the must have book for those learning C#, the "Yellow Book." And the PDF and samples are still free!C# Yellow Book 2016 "Cheese Edition" Now AvailableThe...
View ArticleCodify The Build Light
I don't usually get to highlight projects that bring two parts of my live together, being a Microsoft ALM MVP and a cool Windows IoT project.Seeing that this past week was also the Microsoft MVP Global...
View ArticleGuarding the code with Package Security Alerts and Roslyn Security Guard
With security, we need all the help we can get. Today we've got two Visual Studio extensions that should be in your security toolbox...First, we have the one and only Mads Kristensen with a great...
View Article45 (and counting) ASP.NET Core Samples
I came across this repo by accident and as soon as I saw it I knew I had today's post. I don't know about you, but I learn code by looking at code. Today's project is 45 and count cool ASP.NET code...
View ArticleHoloLens App on a Raspberry PI?
You HAVE to love a post that starts off with "No, I am not drunk, nor did I smoke some peculiar produce our capital Amsterdam is famous for, and I did not bump my head a bit too hard on my car while...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Extensions Update
If you are a Visual Studio Extension writer, then with last week's release of Visual Studio 2017 RC, there's some important things you need to know.First, a quick peek as what is new with extensions in...
View ArticleBig or Small, Every Girl Can Code with Help from Small Basic
Small Basic is one of our favorite learning tools. Teaching and learning is one of our favorite things. Embracing everyone and anyone who wants to code is our goal.When I saw this, I knew I had this...
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