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Adding a modern spark to your WPF apps, with WPFSpark
Today's WPF Wednesday post is a revisit to a project from Ratish Philip that we highlighted nearly four years ago, Adding some spark to your next WPF project with WPFSpark, a project that's back and...
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Lots o' Lego Mindstorms...
Did you get a Lego Mindstorms during the holidays? Today we've got two posts just for you. One to help you teach others about it and the other to hook it up to the cloud...First Friend of the Blog, Ed...
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One code snippet at a time [and more] with the Code Snippet Studio
Code snippets are some of the repetitive task greatest Visual Studio time savers you'll ever see. If you have boilerplate code and snips that you use over and over, turning them into a snippet will...
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Get a modern mixer with EarTrumpet
Windows 10? Looking for a much more modern volume mixer?Rafael Rivera and David Golden have got just the utility (and source code for it) for you!File-New-Project/EarTrumpetSupported operating...
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Your First Band 2 App, via a new Web Tile
Did Santa bring you a shiny new Microsoft Band 2? If he did, and since you're reading this, I'm sure you're thinking about taking the next "step" with it, developing an app for it?Jeff Bramwell was...
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Java Snips and Open Bin
Given that last week I highlighted a tool that helps you quickly create and share code snips, One code snippet at a time [and more] with the Code Snippet Studio, when I saw today's first project I knew...
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Opening XAML Behaviors
While this news is a couple months old it's still very pertinent and shows Microsoft's continued journey down the open source pathXAML Behaviors, open source and on UWPYour requests to grow the XAML...
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UWP Sound Cloud App on Desktop, Phone & Raspberry Pi 2
Shoban Kumar shows off the promise that is the Universal Windows Platform, one app, multiple platforms...Universal Windows 10 Platform (UWP) Sound Cloud Music App for Windows Phone & Raspberry...
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Magically format your XAML with XAML Magic
Have a bunch of XAML that is "formatting challenged?" Tired of wasting time playing the XAML format game? Want all your XAML to look the same?Dave Grochocki, building on the work from Nico...
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Be a 3D Hero with UrhoSharp
Last December Miguel de Icaza blogged about a cool, cross platform, light weight 3D game engine that's very C# and friendly...3D Game Engine for Android, iOS, and .NETÂ [Post Copied in Full]Building 3D...
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How high are you? With the Microsoft Band 2...
(No, not that kind of high...)David Vescovi, Microsoft MVP and hardware geek extraordinaire, recently blogged about a cool, new and different Microsoft Band 2 app he wrote...Microsoft Band Altimeter...
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Coding4Fun January 2016 Round-Up
I just realized today is the last business day of the month and that I didn't do our usual monthly Round-Up post. Doh!So I guess today you're getting two Coding4Fun posts! :)Coding4Fun BlogCoding4Fun...
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Tips on Creating Templates, a new UWP Template and a Prism Pack too!
If you've been following the blog for any length of time you'll know how much I love Visual Studio Template.What? You're new'ish here? Well here's a list of some of my Template related posts;Visual...
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"Debugging Unity 3D with VSCode"
Simon (darkside) Jackson returns (Recent highlight, Unity with VS Code) today with a great post on how to use VSCode to debug your next Unity 3D project.Debugging Unity 3D with VSCodeI’ve written...
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Band 2 Design Template and Wind Alert App
This is the last Microsoft Band 2 post, I promise (for a while... um... maybe...)Today we've got two posts, the first a great design resource from HÃ¥kan Reis and the last a cool project for those windy...
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Help Creating High-DPI Friendly VS Extensions
A year ago, almost to the day, I highlighted a post from Carlos Quintero on Building DPI Aware Visual Studio Extensions.Today Carlos Quintero is back, this time with a great list of additional...
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"Beginner's Guide to Designing Video Game Levels"
This tutorial from Mike Stout has nothing to do with Microsoft but everything to do with game development. If you've ever wondered how to get started building your game levels, this is a must read...A...
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FEZ HAT, UWP and Azure IoT
Last July I highlighted the Raspberry Pi FEZ HAT, Tipping your Raspberry Pi FEZ HAT, but I've not blogged much about it since.I am sure glad the Coding4Fun Friend Lee Stott took the time to write up...
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Stop the Solution Explorer's Expansion Madness
Mads Kristensen shows off an extension he recently released, one that does something I've not seen done before (and didn't think was even possible!)Disable Solution Explorer's Dynamic NodesA...
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Building your next Windows/Xbox game with Lumberyard
I might get in trouble for today's post, but I still thought it was pretty darn cool and given how often I blog about game engines and development, I really didn't think I could pass this up...And it...
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