Introduction
Win32 APIs provide powerful functionality that let you get the most out of Windows in your applications. While these APIs are readily accessible to C and C++ developers, other languages like C# and Rust require wrappers or bindings in order to access these APIs. In C#, this is...
If you tuned in to this morning’s App Development Community Standup, you know that today we released WinUI 3 Preview 3. If you want to skip the summary and head straight to the release notes and installation instructions, you can find those here.
New Features
The team has been hard at work on...
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As I started cherry picking shows and episodes for this week's post, I was thinking, "...kind of a quite week..."
Then saw something cool, and another and another and... :) In the end, here are 27 select shows, posts and episodes.
Remember, join us this week, Wednesday and Thursday, November...
assassin's creed
azure
channel 9
connect
cortana analytics
data solutions
developer news
devops
game development
hyper-v
intellisense
it community
nano server
powershell
sql unplugged
tech link
visual studio
web development
windows 10
windows server
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...
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...
code lens
coding
community
configuration
debug port
debugging
development
documentation
file explorer
game development
integration
intellisense
mono
open source
plugin
software
syntax highlighting
unity
vs code
Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10563), to be used in conjunction with Link Removed(Build 10565). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a production environment. Please only install the SDK on your test...
api changes
application development
bug fixes
build 10563
compatibility issues
developer tools
emulator update
intellisense
known issues
mobile emulators
preview
production environment
sdk
store submission
testing
uwp
visual studio
windows 10
windows feedback
windows performance analyzer
Visual Studio 2015 is out and for all your Arduino makers, the Visual Micro Arduino for Visual Studio 2015 [Beta] is now out too!
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This Extension requires Visual Studio C++ to be installed before projects can be created or opened
Beta release of the Arduino Ide for Visual Studio...
arduino
beta
c++
code completion
compiler
debugger
development
hardware
ide
installation
intellisense
library
open source
patch
programming
projects
user guide
visual micro
visual studio
windows 10
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...
api
coding
collaboration
community
development
extensions
features
feedback
gallery
github
intellisense
open source
programming
project types
roadmap
share
statistics
tools
update
visual studio
In this video, we explore Visual Studio 2015 and the Link Removed extension for it! PowerShell Tools is developed by Adam Driscoll (PowerShell MVP), and enables the development of PowerShell projects inside Visual Studio. You automatically get all of the benefits of the Visual Studio...
2015
adam driscoll
development
extensions
integration
intellisense
mvp
overview
pester
powershell
programming
software
source control
syntax highlighting
test explorer
tools
trevor sullivan
video
visual studio
vso
In this video we take a first look at Visual Studio Code with NodeJS. We dig into IntelliSense for JavaScript using TypeScript definition files, configuring the launch settings and debugging the NodeJS application in Visual Studio Code.
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Today we revisit the Visual Studio 2015 Extensibility story that was started covering in The Future of Visual Studio Extensions is Bright (and easier :), talking about more of the extension goodness that's available and then about the new Common Project System.
First Heather Brown, Principal...
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development
documentation
error handling
extensions
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intellisense
item templates
microsoft
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walkthroughs
Mads Kristensen is back, today with a VS Extension that will help VS Extension builders build Extensions. That is so meta I had to highlight, even through it's currently at v0.2 (might be at 0.3, 0.4 by the time you read this... :)
Speaking of Mads, are are few other recent times we've...
I cheating a little... Yesterday I highlighting this project in the Kinect Gallery, but since this news ties in so well with last week's blog post, I'm going to highlight here too. And can you really have enough Small Basic and Kinect news? :)
Kinect for Small Basic
System Requirements
1...
3d positioning
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driver
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graphics
hardware
intellisense
interactivity
joints
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microsoft
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sensor
small basic
software
tutorials
usb
windows 10
windows 8
It's not often we get a new development environment that gets Kinect Dev support, so when we do, and when it's focused on getting to coding quickly, well we have to highlight it!
Kinect for Small Basic
1, Download Small Basic 1.1 Link Removed
2. Download the Kinect for Small Basic installer...
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human interaction
image processing
intellisense
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microsoft
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sensor
small basic
tutorials
IntelliTrace automatically records the execution of your application without you performing any additional steps. Any time the debugger breaks the execution of the application (e.g. because a breakpoint is hit), the IntelliTrace UI is updated and displays the data that has been collected up...
Link Removed (PTVS) is a free, open source plugin that turns Visual Studio (including Express!) into a Python IDE. In this episode, Robert is joined by Steve Dower, who shows how PTVS provides Python developers all of the goodness of Visual Studio, including IntelliSense, local and remote...
With the summer upon us for our Monday posts, I think we're going to less Visual Studio extension stuff and more game stuff and/or "oh my god, my kids are making me crazy, give me something that will keep them busy!" stuff.
To kick this off, we're revisiting Small Basic. We've mentioned it...
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intellisense
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turtle
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videos
visual studio
This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including:
[Link Removed] Microsoft PressPass - Link Removed
[Link Removed] Skype - Skype already has Link Removed you may be interested in
[Link Removed] Mark Heath - Link Removed shows how to use the Skype4COM...
Happy Birthday, Channel 9!!! We are 7 years old today! Link Removed
Wow, hard to believe. What a great 7 years it has been. THANK YOU, NINERS! In celebration, we bring you the latest episode of Checking In with Erik Meijer. Our very special guest is Eric Lippert.
Many of you probably know Eric...
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