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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...

With the recent release of the Marmalade Link Removed, apps and games built with the Marmalade SDK can now be targeted for and deployed to Windows 10 PCs or phones. In most cases, your app will not require significant code changes to move to Windows 10. However, the SDK is still a limited beta...

Kinect MVP James Ashley is back with a great example of using OpenCV v3 (which we highlighted OpenCV turns 3 and seeing Intel(R) INDE OpenCV), Emgu and the Kinect v2 to implement computer vision/facial recognition. Some of our other posts where we highlight James; Kinect 2 Unity 5 "Kinect v2...

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...

Fast accelerated graphics! with an clean easy API! That's the promise of Microsoft's Win2d library. In this video I walk through, from scratch, how to create a simple animated graphics application for UWP using .NET. There are full notes (and links to source code) on my blog: Link Removed...

Today's library is one I've seen asked for a number of times on different forums and comments. Best of all, you can get it free and help them flesh it out... Link Removed We are excited to share our Finger Tracking library Aiolos for Kinect v2 with you. At this time, Aiolos is still in an...