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Link Removed Welcome to the first in a series of hands-on blog posts for the Windows Bridge for iOS. The Windows Bridge for iOS is an open-source project that allows you to create Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that can run on Windows 10 devices using iOS APIs and Objective-C code...

Background audio in a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app is a powerful way to provide a more seamless audio experience to your users. This post will walk you through setting up background audio, reacting to device media controls, communicating with the background media player, and managing...

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...

It's Winter Break for many of us and being the geeks we are, we're looking for something to develop... :) When kicking off a new project, many times it can really help starting from an existing Project Template. We've highlighted the cool UWP templates from FirstFloor before, Go beyond "Blank...

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 Extension to edit that..." Link Removed must have run into that more times than he can count...

The final post for the VS Code Theme week comes from the man, the myth, the legend in his own mind :) Link Removed. Given it's Hardware Friday and VS Code week, how can we mesh these two together? Maybe a little Arduino development with VS Code? Yeah, that's the ticket! Link...

Coding4Fun is doing a VS Code Theme Week and I tried to hunt down something, anything, related to the Kinect and VS Code. Anything... Well, I've been blogging about the Kinect and Unity a bunch, so showing how VS Code and Unity work together is close enough, right? Um... yeah... It's a...

In this episode, Robert is joined by Link Removed, author of many of the most useful and cool Visual Studio extensions around. Mads shows the following extensions: Link Removed [01:10] Link Removed [06:30] Link Removed [09:50] Link Removed [13:15] Link Removed [20:45] Link Removed [25:00] Link...

Continuing with our Hardware Event Theme, it's Windows 10 Band Day! Link Removed, whom we usually highlight for his cool Kinect projects, a couple months ago wrote up this nice Windows 10 UWP Microsoft Band example... Link Removed Although very simple I thought this was worth blogging as I...

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In this introductory video, Bob will explain the purpose and intended audience for this series of lessons, what to expect, how to get the most out of it, what tools you'll need and pre-requisites before starting. Lesson source code: none for this lesson Full series source code...

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...

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...

One of the questions I hear allot is how do you convert your Windows phone 8/8.1 Silverlight app into a Windows 10 UWP app? Is there a simple converter? No. But one is the works! Mobilize.NET, the company that brought us the cool WinForm to Web App product, WebMAP2 have just released a new...

This week, Shen and I took a look at how you can very easily use the new XAML SplitView control to build an experience in your UWP application that automatically _adapts_ based on the current size of your application. As you may imagine, this is one of the foundational building blocks we...

In this episode, Robert is joined by Link Removed, who shows us how to integrate Cortana into apps. Among the topics Nick covers and shows are voice commands, speech recognition and synthesis, background voice commands and continuous dictation. Resources: Link Removed Nick's Demos Link...

Just a couple months ago I highlighted one of our favorite refactoring/analyzer projects, Refactoring Essentials - Open Source, Cross Platform Refactoring and Analyzers. Well the team is on a tear, with Andreas Weizel announcing that Refactoring Essentials v2 is now available in preview...

Last we we highlighted, Jumpstart your Win10 IoT development with the AllJoyn Studio for Visual Studio 2015. This post from Link Removed, Official Coding4Fun Friend seemed like a great follow-up. Not only do we have AllJoyn but how can you go wrong with Cortana too? Link Removed This post...

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...

Link Removedrecently posted this great .NET Analyzer round-up. A few I've seen and highlighted but a couple I'd not, which makes his post one of my favorite kinds... :) A few recent related posts; Refactoring Essentials - Open Source, Cross Platform Refactoring and Analyzers Analyze This...