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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...

This project is off to a great start and something I think we should keep an eye on... Link Removed I am working on a proof of concept standalone mobile 3D Scanner. Hopefully it will be possible to use a Raspberry Pi2 for this project. I have already posted a video on youtube. And some...

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's series comes from Coding4Fun Friend, Bruno Capuano, where he shows off one of our favorite subjects, facial recognition, with a cloud twist. Bruno is showing off Microsoft's Project Oxford, Face API's and how you can get started using them. First, Project Oxford? Link Removed Welcome...

We first launched the Internet Explorer Test Drive site Link Removed during the Internet Explorer 9 Preview and regularly added demos through IE10 and IE11 development as a way to help web developers get hands-on with new features and performance improvements that were being added to the...

Drones! It's been like forever since we've highlighted drones here, so when I saw this and that Shahed Chowdhuri not only used an Xbox Controller but also Windows 10, well heck, there's no way I could pass that up! Flying a Drone with Windows 10 and an Xbox Controller ... Introduction I...

IllumiRoom (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/illumiroom/) demonstrated how projection mapping can enhance entertainment. RoomAlive (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/roomalive/) prototyped turning any room into an interactive, augmented experience. In this session, Andy...

We've mentioned IllumiRoom and RoomAlive before, but at Build 2015 there was a dedicated session AND the release of the RoomAlive Toolkit too! Link Removed IllumiRoom (Link Removed) demonstrated how projection mapping can enhance entertainment. RoomAlive (Link Removed) prototyped turning any...

Everyone is still heads down putting their final touches on their Build and Ignite sessions. Not able to go to Build? Well we're brining Build to a you! The Build Tour is taking Build on the road, to a city hopefully near you. For dates, sessions and locations, check out http://build15.com. Oh...

Join your guide Link Removed as he talks to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. This is the first of a number of shows that I've been wanting to do for a while which shows the level of passion and commitment that many people at Microsoft have around their areas of...

If you've been following this blog for any length of time, you know how much I like the Kinect voice recognition and its potential. Every single time I use my Xbox One, it's just so natural to "Xbox Pause" or "Xbox Turn Off"... Zubair Ahmed has just shared a simple sample, but simple in that...

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]...

While I've not highlighted frameworks and such recently, when Brian Lagunas reached out to me about today's news I knew I had today's post. I've used Prism myself in a couple WPF LOB app's and found it pretty darn cool and useful. If you're building complex applications, with multiple team...

With the recent release of the Microsoft Band SDK Preview, it seems right to highlight those of you how are building cool stuff with it... And if we mix in some IoT, well... woot! Joost van Schaik is mixing in just about everything, Microsoft Band, Raspberry PI 2, Mono, C# and even Windows...

This week on Channel 9, Nisha and guest host Mat Velloso discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed New Azure services help more people realize the possibilities of big data [T. K. “Ranga” Rengarajan] Link Removed Azure: Machine Learning Service, Hadoop Storm, Cluster...

I've highlighted Link Removed just a few times... TouchDevelop to Arduino TouchDevelop v3 - WinPhone 8, Speech, NFC, Tiles and much more... Reach out and touch the net with TouchDevelop and MaKey MaKey Develop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone... TouchDevelop Getting in touch with...

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...

The .NET Core Team talks about the release of the Link Removed. CoreCLR is the second open source repo that the team has shared on GitHub, the first one being CoreFX. CoreCLR is an execution engine for .NET apps, performing functions such as IL byte code loading, compilation to machine code and...

Today we highlight a new Microsoft Virtual Academy Quick Start Challenge... Link Removed Want to work with the Kinect sensor v2? In this hands-on lab, learn how to use the Kinect sensor v2 in an openFramework application running on Windows 8. We use an openFramework version available on...

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Anand Subbaraj, Senior Program Manager on the Azure Data Factory team. Anand joins us to talk about Azure Data Factory is a managed service which focuses on managing information production. This enables you to aggregate data from many...