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In this short video Rowan takes us through a different approach to generating keys in Entity Framework 7 using sequences. This approach is interesting in cases of large INSERT batches primarily because keys are all fetched beforehand. Would love your thoughts! Here are some links for more...

Everyone knows Windows 10 was released last week, but not everyone knows that besides the desktop version was released, but Windows 10 IoT Core was released for two devices too, the Raspberry Pi 2 and MinnowBoard MAX. Once you get these, the next question might be, how do you get started...

In this entry we're continuing the discussion of Entity Framework by looking toward the future. We focus primarily on EF7 and its primary design decisions. It was truly enlightening Entity Framework 7 Github Repository for EF7 Rowan Miller As an aside, I spent a couple of days with Rowan...

With Visual Studio 2015 now available and today being the start of the Windows 10 release wave and Cortana being just so cool, this post from Arun Kumar Surya Prakash is a perfect for today... Link Removed Microsoft has introduced Cortana in 2014 Build Event. With just one year now Cortana...

This is a release candidate (RC) for Visual Studio 2012 Update 5. Link Removed

Nearly all our recent Windows 10 IoT posts seemed to be focused all on Raspberry Pi don't they? Well David Jones, MS MVP, recently released this great post that shows that there's also an Arduino Windows 10 IoT story too... Windows 10 IoT: Windows Remote Arduino and Universal Windows Platform...

Today we’re announcing support for automated testing of Microsoft Edge through the W3C WebDriver standard. To use WebDriver with Microsoft Edge, you need the Link Removed on a Windows Insiders build of 10240 or newer. Once that’s installed, you can try out WebDriver for yourself! WebDriver is...

How can I not make this today's post? :) All times are in PDT (UTC - 7:00) Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event .png']Link Removed On July 20th we will celebrate the final release of Visual Studio 2015! We invite you to join us online to learn about the new features and technologies...

Friend of the Gallery and newly minted Microsoft Kinect MVP (Congrats!) Tango Chen is back with an extremely common request, using the Kinect to control a mouse (with source!) Kinect v2 Mouse Control w/ Source Code A mouse control application for Kinect v2, including a couple of options for...

Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series on Web Components by Microsoft Edge engineers Link Removed and Link Removed. To read more about our viewpoint and background on web components, please see part one, “Bringing componentization to the web: An overview of Web Components.“...

Windows 10 introduces the Universal Windows Platform, and with it a new way to partition the API surface. APIs are grouped into "device families", and that means you can support a huge range of devices with just one app. Even better, you can still light up the unique features of each of those...

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...

So this isn't really hardware, but it's hardware'ish and too cool to keep in the story queue too long.. Maker.js Maker.js, a Link Removed project, is a JavaScript library for creating and sharing modular line drawings for CNC and laser cutters. Maker.js creates line drawings for two...

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...

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...

For the last couple weeks I've been highlighted the Kinect Unity Assets of Rumen Filkov (aka RF Solutions), Unity Asset - Kinect [v1] with MS-SDK and Unity Asset - Kinect v2 with MS-SDK. Today I'm wrapping up the series by sharing a great blog post from Rumen on using his “Kinect v2 with...

June is the quite before the storm month. With Windows 10 and related items coming out next month, well July and August are going to be exciting months! Coding4Fun Blog Small Basic Gets a Not So Small Update... v1.1 Intel Galileo V2 and You Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 Retargeting Extension...

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...

Here are just 15 posts from the many released last week. Remember, so see almost everything that's new, check out https://channel9.msdn.com/Browse Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Nikola and guest host Dave Crawford discuss the week's top developer news, including; ... Link Removed...

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. Link Removed - Add NodeJS type definitions for...