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Link Removed Link Removed The Windows 10 Anniversary Update comes with a great set of enhancements to digital ink for both the user and developer. Along with gaining knowledge from general inking resources, you will finish this post knowing how to create a custom ruler with DirectInk. There...

Sixteen years ago, Link Removed conceived of a contest that would test the mettle of any web designer: The 5k. The idea was that entrants would build an entire site in 5kb of code or less. Its aim was to force us to get creative by putting a bounding box on what we could do: Between servers and...

FamilyNotes is a Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app that implements a group noticeboard. The goal of this app was to showcase the various Windows 10 input and interaction features that enable a personal and individualized computing experience. This is the third of three blog posts...

If you watched the Build 2016 keynote talks, you may have noticed how Microsoft is focusing more and more on improving how we humans interact with computers, by means of ink, speech, and other “more personal computing” features. Modern software is changing focus to using natural interfaces as...

Link Removed is all about making it as easy as possible to build apps for Windows. The online tool helps you build apps with no coding required, so you can either start your project there and extend it in Visual Studio, or you can create and build the app completely in the tool. Today, we want...

I hope I don't come across as horibly spammy on my third post here but I would like to share some info on a project that I've been working on. I know when it comes to free monitoring solutions we're all basically stuck with Nagios or some sort of Linux based product that is typically ugly and...

Today at JSConf US Last Call in Florida, we announced that we will open-source the core components of Chakra as ChakraCore, which will include all the key components of the JavaScript engine powering Microsoft Edge. We expect to open the ChakraCore repository on GitHub next month. Link Removed...

Today's project isn't a Visual Studio Extension, isn't a language or service. But it's something that will help what ever Dev has to do one time or another, editing environment variables. We've had environment for forever, but the UI to edit them has not really advanced. You have to remember...

I can't believe I've never blogged about this project from Link Removed. I spend a good 30+ minutes going through all my post resources, looking for past posts on this. Yet nothing. What was I thinking? Well to make it up to you and Mads he gets not one post this week, but two! :) Anyway...

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Link Removed, Program Manager on the Azure Compute Engineering team focusing on Linux and Scale. He joins us to talk about Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Scale Sets are a way to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs. Scale Sets handles...

Microsoft Edge introduces great new improvements to F12 developer tools, including some of your most requested features from Link Removed. Explore new features in the DOM Explorer, Console, Debugger, Network, Performance, Memory, Emulation, and a new Experiments tool, that allows you to try out...

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...

Today marks the initial release of Mobilize.NET’s Silverlight bridge, which helps Windows Phone Silverlight app developers bring their WP Silverlight 8.x apps to the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Announced at Build 2015, the Moblize.NET bridge is free and directly integrates into...

With Windows 10, it’s now easier than ever to support natural input in your apps and today we’d like to highlight using inking and speech to interact more naturally with your users. Digital inking with DirectInk Despite the introduction and evolution of all types of computer input devices...

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...

There are many ways to spin a cube and in today's episode we're coming from a different... angle =P. Cooper Partin from the Windows Graphics team is joining to tell us about his work on the ANGLE project to enable OpenGL ES 2.0 support in Windows Store, Phone and Universal Windows apps. ANGLE is...

This is the last installment in a series of videos made with the Entity Framework team. In this episode Brice Lambson describes migrations and how they are used in Entity Framework 7. Here are some links for more information: Entity Framework 7 Github Repository for EF7 Link Removed Link...

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...

Arunesh and team have done something pretty cool. They've built a version of Node.js that works with Chakra - the JavaScript engine that underlies Microsoft Edge. Why would you do this? Well, because of Windows 10. Windows 10 is not exactly discriminant about which devices it supports and we're...