Windows 10 Development for Absolute Beginners
Continuing with our Windows 10 Theme Week, Monday I shared a great template to help kick off your next Windows 10 app, Turning your Windows 10 Project Templates up to 10 with Template10!.But what if...
View ArticleWindows 10, IoT, Sphero 2 and Raspberry PI 2
Our last Windows 10 Theme Week post, we turn to Friend of the Blog, Mike Taulty and his two recent posts about Windows 10, Sphero 2 and Raspberry PI 2 (and Windows 8.1 Lib, WinPhone and PC)Windows 10,...
View ArticleLumia Imaging SDK v3 (No, it's not just for phones...)
This week, surprisingly enough, we're going to be doing a "Holly Cow, that was an awesome Hardware Event last week!" theme, focusing on related SDK's, projects and such.I'm sure you've already heard...
View ArticleHave a heart...rate Band UWP sample
Continuing with our Hardware Event Theme, it's Windows 10 Band Day!Peter Daukintis, whom we usually highlight for his cool Kinect projects, a couple months ago wrote up this nice Windows 10 UWP...
View ArticleMicrosoft Band SDK - October 2015 (Now Includes Band 2!)
Given today's Coding4Fun post (cough and Friday's...) I wanted to add this special/out-of-band post, which includes Band and Band 2 support and the new Experience design guidelines for Microsoft Band...
View ArticleA Raspberry PI 2, Azure Service Bus and Microsoft Band walk into a...
We finish up our "OMG, I want one of those..." Hardware Event Theme Week, with not one or two posts, but six posts from Joost van Schaik.Yes, it's another Microsoft Band project, but it's also a...
View ArticleHello Code, VS Code 0.9.1 that is...
Another week, another theme... :)With the recent VS Code update, VS Code v0.9.1 (October 2015), I'm going to make it a VS Code Theme week.Today it's an overview of this update and recent changes....
View ArticleKnow your Node.js (and VS Code)
Continuing with our VS Code Theme, today I've got three items for you (well, one, okay, kind of three, or whatever... )Node.js Applications with VS CodeNode.js is a platform for building fast and...
View ArticleThere's an Arduino in your VS Code...
The final post for the VS Code Theme week comes from the man, the myth, the legend in his own mind :) Fabien Royer.Given it's Hardware Friday and VS Code week, how can we mesh these two together?Maybe...
View ArticleUnknown File Type? Visual Studio Suggestion Extension...
There you are, opening a new open source project and there's a file in the project that you can't edit or that the edit experience isn't great.Then you remember, "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to install an...
View ArticleSimulations, Emulators, Virtual Reality and Small Basic v1.2
There's some great news for Small Basic. Not only are there a ton of great projects being created, but there's a re new version out too!Small Basic 1.2 - Release NotesDownload Small Basic 1.2You can...
View ArticleCoding4Fun October 2015 Round-Up
We had a number of themes this past month, which was kind of fun. Windows 10, Windows Devices and VS Code (and this week might as well have been a Small Basic theme ;)More themes in the future? Hum......
View ArticleAppVeyor via Visual Studio [Extension]
It's Microsoft MVP Global Summit week! 1,900'ish MVP's, including yours truly, are descending on the Microsoft Campus to connect with the Product Groups, peers and get a behind-the-scenes (i.e. NDA,...
View ArticleTypeScript and You
Continuing with our Microsoft MVP Theme Week, today we're highlighting a great post from Michael Crump that will help you get started with the new shiny that is TypeScript...TypeScript with Visual...
View Article"All your device are belong to us"
In the last post of our Microsoft MVP Theme week, as all the MVP's start making their way home after a great, but brain filling week, we highlight Bryn Lewis, Microsoft MVP Embedded and awesome IoT...
View ArticleCheating your way to VS 2015 Shortcut Cheatsheats
I can't believe I've never blogged about this project from Mads Kristensen. I spend a good 30+ minutes going through all my post resources, looking for past posts on this. Yet nothing. What was I...
View ArticleMads Mad Web Extension Pack
In our second mini-Mads Kristensen week, today you get one project + eight!Mads has taken some of the web dev extensions he feels are must-haves and bundled them into a single Web Extension...
View Article"Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the..." Smart Mirror!
Funny how some of the coolest projects come my way. Today project by Evan Cohen came via a "first time poster" on an internal Microsoft Distribution List, that happened to be subscribed to by a Channel...
View Article"NVM#: Effective Environment Variables Manager"
Today's project isn't a Visual Studio Extension, isn't a language or service. But it's something that will help what ever Dev has to do one time or another, editing environment variables.We've had...
View ArticleMassive set of WPF Samples and Community Projects too
I guess it's a WPF Mini-Theme week. Today we've to two (kind-of) WPF things to highlight. The first is a group of very cool WPF Community project and the second is a massive repro of WPF Samples...WPF...
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