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    Introducing the Speech Synthesis API in Microsoft Edge

    Starting with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge will support the Speech Synthesis APIs defined in the W3C Web Speech API Specification. These APIs allow websites to convert text to audible speech with customizable voice and language settings. With them, website developers can add...
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    Data Access in Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Apps

    Link Removed SQLite version 3.11.2 is shipping with the Windows 10 Anniversary edition as part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and is recommended for all UWP local data storage needs. This represents the first time an open source, third-party library, such as SQLite, has shipped as part...
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    Introduction to Vulkan: High-Efficiency Graphics API for Modern GPUs

    Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms. Vulkan - Industry Forged Tech demos: Vulkan on Android Drivers: Nvidia Vulkan...
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    Building Modern Web Apps with ASP.NET MVC 6 | ASP.NET Fall Sessions

    Daniel Roth overviews ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET MVC 6. He explains the guiding principles behind ASP.NET MVC 6, and overviews application development, pointing out some important new features in both ASP.NET MVC and Web API. Link Removed Link Removed
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    Face it... Windows 10 Vision and Face Detection Round-up

    With all the pictures we'll be taking I thought it would be cool to do a round-up of vision API, facial detection and the like. We're got a ton of posts from three different authors... 1) Link Removed Summary A musical coding project that turns users into musical instruments using new media...
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    Windows Hello with the Kinect v2

    We got some very cool Kinect Developer News this week. Below is the email, in full, which introduces the Kinect developer preview for Windows 10, which includes Windows Hello support. To show this off, Friend of the Gallery, Mike Taulty, published a great detailed description and post. Make...
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    Extending VSTS with Project Template, Docs and more...

    Today's Extension Monday post is about one of the coolest new extension opportunities, extension Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS, fka Visual Studio Online). To get you started creating VSTS extensions, Josh Garverick has shared a great Project Template... Link Removed This extension...
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    Lumia 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 all about it, but incase not, check out this post, A New Era of Windows 10 Devices from...
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    DirectX Video Acceleration Specification for VP8 and VP9 video decoding

    Contains a specification for support of VP8 and VP9 video decoding (according to the available VP8 and VP9 source code and public documents) within the Microsoft Windows DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) API/DDI context. Link Removed
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    Windows 10 development for absolute beginners

    The absolute beginners series is back for Windows 10. It doesn’t matter if you’re a pro dev or just starting out, there’s valuable content for everyone. If you’re looking for a faster pace content that dives, the Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 series may be for you. The only thing that the...
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    Combining Windows 10 features with Unity games in your own plugin

    In case you're curious how to add Universal Windows Platform functionalities that isn't already covered with Unity APIs or with existing plugins - here is how you can write your own plugins targeting UWP. Edit: one little correction, instead of checking all boxes for the stub plugin, just...
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    Using cross-app communication to make apps work together (10 by 10)

    With Windows 10, the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) provides a number of improvements to better support sharing data and files across Windows apps. Cross-app communication in Windows 10 Windows 10 introduces some new and improved ways to ease communication between apps on the same device...
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    Building your own Windows 10 Web Browser

    Seems like with every Windows release, there's a set of sample apps that wrap the browser, showing you how you can add your own chrome (as in UI) to it, adding features and behaviors, creating your own web browser. Windows 10 is no different. Then again it is, because this time around, it's...
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    Go beyond "Blank App" with these Windows 10 VS 2015 Project Templates

    Like many of you, I'm looking at jumping into developing Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform apps. So like most of you, I fire up Visual Studio, New Project and look for a Project Template to help me hit the ground running. Let's see, for creating a Windows 10 app there's... one UI template...
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    .NET Native – What it means for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) developers

    This blog was written by Daniel Jacobson, Program Manager What is .NET Native? .NET Native is a precompilation technology for building Universal Windows apps in Visual Studio 2015. The .NET Native toolchain will compile your managed IL binaries into native binaries. Every managed (C# or VB)...
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    Winning with Win2D

    One of the new libraries I've not blogged about enough (cough... at all... cough) is one that will help the C++ or C# dev create GPU accelerated 2D Windows Runtime apps on Windows 8.1/WinPhone 8.1 and Windows 10. Why haven't I blogged about it? Well, I hate the author... JUST KIDDING. No, I've...
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    Hello, Windows 10 IoT Core

    Greetings, Makers! We are excited to announce the public release of Link Removed for the Link Removed and the Link Removed. Visit the Windows IoT Dev Center to choose your target board, then walk through the steps to provision your board, acquire the tools, and get started Making. This release...
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    Introduction to UWP and device families

    Windows 10 introduces the Universal Windows Platform, and with it a new way to partition the API surface. APIs are grouped into "device families", and that means you can support a huge range of devices with just one app. Even better, you can still light up the unique features of each of those...
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    Visual Studio Gallery Shows Open Source Extension Love

    In June I noticed and mentioned that the Link Removed had been updated with a cool GitHub feature, connecting an extension to a repo, "Heat Margin Visual Studio Extension - Taking the Green/Yellow to the next level" Last week the team officially announced this feature and provided a great and...
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    Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 10166 Released

    Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10166), to be used in conjunction with Link Removed(Build 10166). Preview SDK Build 10166 contains bug fixes and changes to the API surface area. You can download it from the Windows 10...
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