Your requests to grow the XAML Behaviors platform and bring them forward to support UWP app development have been heard. Today we announce the next step: XAML Behaviors natively supported for UWP and shipping as a NuGet package (for both native and managed projects). Additionally, to build a...
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MSDN magazine has released a special Windows 10 issue. The issue spans a large number of topics from Visual Studio tooling to game development to user experience to notifications.
If you don’t get the print magazine, don’t worry, all the articles are online for free.
Here is the complete list...
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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...
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Although very simple I thought this was worth blogging as I...
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This week, surprisingly enough, we're going to be doing a "Holly Cow, that was an awesome Hardware Event last week!" theme, focusing on related SDK's, projects and such.
I'm sure you've already heard all about it, but incase not, check out this post, A New Era of Windows 10 Devices from...
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We're back with a Theme Week, this time focusing on... wait for it... Windows 10 (Okay, I had a number of Win10 posts in the queue, so thought this a good means to get them out. :)
Visual Studio Project Templates are great tools to help you kick off a new project quickly. They can help scaffold...
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Link Removed, a popular toolset that Microsoft also internally uses to implement some of its imaging apps, has been updated to version 3.0. Previous versions of the SDK have already powered applications with a total of over 100 million downloads and now has support for Windows 10 UWP (Universal...
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One of the questions I hear allot is how do you convert your Windows phone 8/8.1 Silverlight app into a Windows 10 UWP app? Is there a simple converter?
No.
But one is the works!
Mobilize.NET, the company that brought us the cool WinForm to Web App product, WebMAP2 have just released a new...
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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...
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Brent Rector, a principal program manager on Windows helped write this post.
The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) allows you to write your app once and target multiple device families, while also taking advantage of new APIs introduced on later versions of the OS as well as using unique APIs...
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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...
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This blog was written by Daniel Jacobson, Program Manager
What is .NET Native?
.NET Native is a precompilation technology for building Universal Windows apps in Visual Studio 2015. The .NET Native toolchain will compile your managed IL binaries into native binaries. Every managed (C# or VB)...
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Link Removedrecently posted this great .NET Analyzer round-up. A few I've seen and highlighted but a couple I'd not, which makes his post one of my favorite kinds... :)
A few recent related posts;
Refactoring Essentials - Open Source, Cross Platform Refactoring and Analyzers
Analyze This...
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One of the new libraries I've not blogged about enough (cough... at all... cough) is one that will help the C++ or C# dev create GPU accelerated 2D Windows Runtime apps on Windows 8.1/WinPhone 8.1 and Windows 10.
Why haven't I blogged about it? Well, I hate the author... JUST KIDDING. No, I've...
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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...
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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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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
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Introduction
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Join your guide Link Removed as he talks to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community.
This week Cory is joined by Pranav Rastogi (ASP.NET Team) and Link Removed (DevExpress) to talk about ASP.NET Web Forms and the AjaxControlToolkit. The AjaxControlToolkit is an open source...
Now that the Microsoft Band is pretty easily purchased (I'm wearing one of the latest batch now :) more dev's are getting them and sharing their efforts.
Instead of rationing them, I'm going to give you a round-up of them, posts from Iris Classon (two from her actually), Fela Ameghino, Lorenzo...
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We've rewritten (and open sourced!) the C# and VB compilers, and exposed their functionality through APIs as the .NET Compiler Platform. But what do these APIs mean for those who aren't compiler jocks?
Learn about diagnostic analyzers, a key new feature of Visual Studio 2015 that lets a NuGet...
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...
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