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In today’s cloud-first, mobile-first technology world, most Store apps have at least some integration with web services or other devices on a network. These include apps that fetch online weather content, news or sports scores, media or podcast downloaders and even peer-to-peer games, chat or...

Since the month ends with the release of Windows 10, a great way to kick it off is by highlighting the great Windows 10 Universal App Samples available on GitHub. I mean, check out this list of samples! Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples This repo contains the samples that demonstrate the...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10158), to be used in conjunction with Link Removed(Build 10158). Preview SDK Build 10158 contains bug fixes and changes to the API surface area. You can download it from the Windows 10...

Instead of extending Visual Studio, today I'm going to highlight a new extensibility target, extending Visual Studio Online (VSO). Link Removed, Visual Studio ALM Microsoft MVP has written up a great Hello VSO World tutorial, taking you from New Project through deployment of your new VSO...

Fast accelerated graphics! with an clean easy API! That's the promise of Microsoft's Win2d library. In this video I walk through, from scratch, how to create a simple animated graphics application for UWP using .NET. There are full notes (and links to source code) on my blog: Link Removed...

Friend of the Gallery and Kinect MVP Vangos Pterneas is back with a great and detailed post on developing with the HD Face API. Some of the other times we've highlighted Vangos Pterneas's work; Just face it... with these two Kinect for Windows v2 SDK Face Examples Kinetisense and Kinect app...

Unified Communications Managed API (UCMA) 5.0 is a managed-code platform that developers use to build applications that provide access to and control over Microsoft’s Enhanced Presence information, instant messaging, telephone and video calls, and audio/video conferencing. Link Removed

Hello from day 2 of Link Removed in San Francisco. David Treadwell and I just gave the audience a peek at many of the new capabilities the new Universal Window Platform will enable, along with the associated tools and services. We also provided more insight into the Link Removed announced by...

Kinect MVP Carl Franklin has done it again. He's not only released his Link Removed, but he's also released the source for it too. As you can see, Carl is a Friend of the Gallery; GesturePak v2.0 Public Beta GesturePak 2.0 Alpha for the Kinect for Windows v2 KinectTools v2 with BodyViewer...

We've rewritten (and open sourced!) the C# and VB compilers, and exposed their functionality through APIs as the .NET Compiler Platform. But what do these APIs mean for those who aren't compiler jocks? Learn about diagnostic analyzers, a key new feature of Visual Studio 2015 that lets a NuGet...

It's not often we get a new development environment that gets Kinect Dev support, so when we do, and when it's focused on getting to coding quickly, well we have to highlight it! Kinect for Small Basic 1, Download Small Basic 1.1 Link Removed 2. Download the Kinect for Small Basic installer...

Windows 10 will see the release of DX12 which like AMD's Mantle see's the bulk of work spread across all the CPU's cores instead of just the first core taking all the brunt. Now with the latest update of 3DMark (you'll need a full licence) users can see for themselves what a major change DX12...

This week on Channel 9, Jeremy and guest host Chris Kinsman discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed [Terry Myerson] Link Removed Windows 10 developer tooling preview now available to Windows Insiders [Cliff Simpkins] Link Removed Link Removed [S. Somasegar]...

Scott Hanselman talks with Scott Hunter about the new Azure App Service API Apps. Scott Hunter will share how this new service helps developers build and consume Cloud APIs and participate in the API economy as well as leverage APIs and connectors as a building block for creating integrated web...

Today's project comes from Charles Torre. While the component's source isn't currently available, when I saw this post on the Visual Studio Gallery was from him, what looks like his first, well had to share it! As if I need to tell you all this, but we live in a connected world, more so every...

You may have noticed a link to that appears next to any recommended entries or sessions: Link Removed This is because we have implemented the Link Removed. Now, whenever you see recommended videos to watch (which appears at the end of each video as well as in a sidebar on each video's page)...

Today's project is from Tim Dams, on a device that I'd not seen before, but now that I've seen how Tim is using it and that I can C# it, well... :) A C# Portable Class Library to talk with Smappee API I wrote a small C# portable class library (.NET4.5/WP8.1/Win8) that allow users to talk with...

Today's project is another one of those, if you need this, you really need it.... Link Removed For those interested, I have developed a library of Labview VI's to access data from the Kinect V2. It seemed that such a library was not available even though one was developed for the Kinect V1...

It's a great time to be alive if you're a fanatic about the particulars of various performance-boosting graphics APIs. AMD's Mantle is here , Microsoft's DirectX 12 is coming with Windows 10 , and at GDC in early March we'll hear the first news about a successor to the open-source...

2015-02-01: Mobile API has been updated.