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In this short video Rowan describes shadow properties new in Entity Framework 7. This is a super useful feature for those times when your database and your class model don't quite match up. Would love your thoughts! Here are some links for more information: Entity Framework 7 Github...

In this entry we're continuing the discussion of Entity Framework by looking toward the future. We focus primarily on EF7 and its primary design decisions. It was truly enlightening Entity Framework 7 Github Repository for EF7 Rowan Miller As an aside, I spent a couple of days with Rowan...

Nearly all our recent Windows 10 IoT posts seemed to be focused all on Raspberry Pi don't they? Well David Jones, MS MVP, recently released this great post that shows that there's also an Arduino Windows 10 IoT story too... Windows 10 IoT: Windows Remote Arduino and Universal Windows Platform...

We've highlighted the Kinect Studio a number of times... Kinect for Windows v2 and the Kinect Studio Kinect Studio and a Harmonica Player Custom Gestures, Kinect for Windows v2 and the Visual Gesture Builder Bruno shows us how to use the Kinect Studio Kinect Studio 101 ...but it's been over...

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...

Just a couple weeks ago we highlighted Link Removed with a getting started post, Hello Face API... Now how about a web site that uses the same API, one that went viral during Build 2015? Hello Link Removed (and it's sibling, Link Removed)! Link Removed posted the story behind Link Removed...

This week on Channel 9, Jeremy and guest host Greg Bulmash discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed, CodeChat 007 - Greg Bulmash (Coder Dojo) Link Removed Link Removed [Soma], Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event Link Removed How to use Process Monitor and...

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...

Last week we launched something new, something we don't do very often at all, a new Channel 9 hub just for Visual Studio, https://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio. expect this hub to explode with content in the coming months (which makes sense given Visual Studio 2015's release) Link Removed...

The previous video showed Visual Studio Code with a NodeJS project. In this video we take a look at working with an ASP.NET 5 project in Visual Studio Code. Link Removed - Task runners (building ASP.NET 5 projects) Link Removed - Launching an ASP.NET application Link Removed - Adding a...

Kinect MVP James Ashley is back with a great example of using OpenCV v3 (which we highlighted OpenCV turns 3 and seeing Intel(R) INDE OpenCV), Emgu and the Kinect v2 to implement computer vision/facial recognition. Some of our other posts where we highlight James; Kinect 2 Unity 5 "Kinect v2...

Honest, this is the last Microsoft Band post... (for a bit at least)(unless I find something really really cool anyway... ;) Just for reference, here are the other recent C4F posts; Microsoft Band SDK Release and Band Studio Introduction, Developing for the Microsoft Band Link Round-up...

In this episode, Robert is joined by Link Removed, who takes us on a tour of the new features in C# 6 that aim at making your everyday code cleaner and clearer. Mads has spoken on this subject at both Link Removed and Ignite. Mindful of this, Robert and Mads go beyond the demos and also talk...

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Link Removed, Friend of the Gallery, posted another great example of using the Kinect v2, this time using it and its capabilities to start an Avatar journey... Here's some of the other posts from Peter we've highlighted recently; Kinect 2, Sound Detection with C++ More on the openFrameworks...

In Windows 10, the Chakra JavaScript engine powers Link Removed and Windows applications written in HTML/CSS/JS. However with JavaScript’s increasing popularity in beyond-the-browser scenarios, developers have been requesting to host the Chakra engine outside the browser to enable JavaScript...

Today's Visual Studio 2013 & 2015 extension is from two guys who if you've been in the VS ALM space for a bit, you'll have heard of a number of times, Utkarsh Shigihalli and Tarun Arora. You've all started using Link Removed, right? Think "TFS in the Cloud" that you can use for free (for up to...

About a month ago we highlighted the Microsoft Band in a link round-up post, Developing for the Microsoft Band Link Round-up. Since then the Microsoft Band SDK, Link Removed, was fully released... Link Removed Today, we’re announcing the full release of the Microsoft Band SDK. Visit Link...

Link Removed, David Giard and Bill Fink provide an inspirational session about a Kinect Photo Booth Link Removed Bill Fink shows off the Photo Booth application he built with a Microsoft Kinect. Link Removed Project Information URL: Link Removed Contact Information: Blog...

You all know how much I like the idea of kid coders, that we can teach the next generations that they are not slaves to their PC's, that they can have control, via code. With this event, they not only learn, share but can win cash too! Become a Technology Creator Link Removed You know those...