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  1. Made with Unity, Coded on Surface – The Story of Contingent 99

    Over the next few months, we will feature game creators who are making games using the Unity game development platform. We’ve partnered with the Made with Unity program to showcase some of the amazing, talented game developers out there and how they use Surface to make their games come to life...
  2. Background Audio and Cross Platform Development with Xamarin (App Dev on Xbox series)

    We are back with yet another app, Backdrop, an open source sample media app developed to showcase a cross-device music experience. In this blog post, we will dive deep into the new background model in the Universal Windows Platform, and specifically focus on how to enable your application to...
  3. Device to Device Communication with Azure IoT Hub

    We’ve already seen how to get your devices to send data to the cloud. In most cases, the data is then processed by various Azure services. However, in some cases the cloud is nothing more than a means of communication between two devices. Imagine a Raspberry Pi connected to a garage door...
  4. Codeless game engine Buildbox adds Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support

    Buildbox—which allows users to create games without needing to code or program—has been used to create a number of Top 100 games. Developers like David Riechelt who created the hit game Color Switch with Buildbox, have been using the software to build chart topping games across multiple...
  5. Vivaldi: the new kid on the block

    In recent years it seems like nearly every browser under the sun has become a clone of google chrome in some form or fashion. From Opera,to Maxthon, to Edge to even Firefox looking more like chrome then it does its own browser. Its attack of the chrome clones and its gotten very stale and...
  6. Preview v2.0 Refactoring Essentials now...

    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...
  7. Windows 10 is empowering developers to dream again

    Yesterday Terry showed you how Link Removed will usher in a new generation of Windows by powering innovation and more personal computing across the largest range of devices, including Microsoft Surface Hub and the world’s first holographic computing platform; Microsoft HoloLens. Windows 10 will...
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    Windows XP Is this possible?

    Hello, I have a Windows 7 Pro system and I use to edit some Fixed Lenght txt files with Notepad. The data imported in Notepad are correctly formatted i.e. I see them listed on rows and columns as a table. A friend that has a system based on XP Pro, when imports the same data on Notepad gets...
  9. Cross Platform Registry Editing

    Is there is method or a software program that would permit one to edit the registry in one Windows 7 installation from another Windows 7 installation on the same computer?
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  11. Boxee is a media center application for Mac, Linux and Windows

    Link Removed Boxee is a media center application for Mac, Linux and Windows that gives your PC a more TV-like interface for interacting with music, movies and pictures. Of course, that's what Apple Front Row, Windows Media Center, and Linux apps like MythTV do as well, but Boxee has a heavy...
  12. What Windows7 could mean for Linux

    Link Removed Windows7 is probably Microsoft’s best OS yet and will therefore slow the move the Linux in the short term, but the limitations built into Microsoft’s development stack show it to be a dead end that will leave Microsoft marketing magnificent visions of its unfolding...
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    Navigating Compatibility: Linux Users Sharing Experiences with Wine and VirtualBox

    because i'm a linux user 99% of the time it take some effort crossing the gap. not just learning command line but with actually compatibility with open source programs. I run Wine because it offers some capability with windows programs, right now i just run Prime 95. i've also experimented with...
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    Windows 7 Crossover Cable Sharing Windows 7 to Linux Mint

    I have two computers, one is running Windows 7 RC1, and the other is running Linux Mint. I have been attempting to connect the two computers with a crossover cable and then share files through it. The two computers detect each other on the network, but my Windows 7 computer doesn't have the...