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Let's take two of our favorite teach, and just all around fun, tools, Lego Mindstorm EV3 and Small Basic and combine them into one awesome project! Link Removed shares EV3 Basic! Link Removed Using the EV3 extension for Small Basic 1.2, you can use Small Basic to program your Lego Mindstorm...

Visual Studio Dev Essentials is a new free developer offering from Microsoft. A free membership to this program gives you access to a range of benefits including developer tools and services, training and support. This video provides an overview of some key benefits, including Visual Studio...

Funny how some of the coolest projects come my way. Today project by Evan Cohen came via a "first time poster" on an internal Microsoft Distribution List, that happened to be subscribed to by a Channel 9 dev, who happened to read and realized it would be great of the Coding4Fun blog. Got to love...

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...

Last week Microsoft held its MVP Global Summit on the Microsoft Redmond campus. 1,900+ MVP's (including your truly) descended on the campus and spent 3-6 days connecting with each other and many of the product groups. While the entire Summit was NDA, the Channel 9 team was ALL over recording a...

In the last post of our Microsoft MVP Theme week, as all the MVP's start making their way home after a great, but brain filling week, we highlight Link Removed, Microsoft MVP Embedded and awesome IoT teacher.. Microsoft Ignite NZ session with Netduino devices Last week I did a session about...

This is a release candidate (RC) for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Extensions for Project Server 2015 with Update 1 (2015.2). Link Removed

This is a release candidate (RC) for Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (2015.1). Link Removed

Ever wish there were a way to condense the entire CppCon 2015 into less than an hour? Well, realistically speaking, there may not be a way to really do that, but we hope this month's episode comes close! CppCon 2015 was packed to the brim with all sorts of great content, great people, and great...

This is a Technical Preview for Visual C++ Build Tools 2015, which provides the essential tools for building C++ applications and libraries targeting Windows desktop. Link Removed

The ClickOnce Bootstrapper package for the .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC enables the .NET Framework 4.6.1 entry in the list of available prerequisites in Visual Studio 2015. Link Removed

The final post for the VS Code Theme week comes from the man, the myth, the legend in his own mind :) Link Removed. Given it's Hardware Friday and VS Code week, how can we mesh these two together? Maybe a little Arduino development with VS Code? Yeah, that's the ticket! Link...

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...

I sit down with Steve Teixeira and get the low-down on all of the latest developments with Windows 10 IoT Core, Raspberry Pi 2, and much more! [00:00] Introduction [00:53] Custom Raspberry Pi 2 case for Windows 10 IoT Core [01:30] New IoT stuff announced at Maker Faire [01:44] Adafruit Starter...

I have windows 7 and was prompted if I wanted to upgrade to 10 for free. I decided it was probably a good idea, I mean, by now it should be pretty seamless...that was wishful thinking. Despite it looking like a cheap cell phone interface with 1990's graphics, It updated and everything was fine...

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Last week Steve Teixeira shared the latest information and news on Windows 10 IoT core and a very IoT Starter Kit... What’s next for Windows 10 IoT Core Back in early August I was pleased to announce the Windows Insider release of Windows 10 IoT Core, a version of Windows 10 targeted towards...

In this introductory video, Bob will explain the purpose and intended audience for this series of lessons, what to expect, how to get the most out of it, what tools you'll need and pre-requisites before starting. Lesson source code: none for this lesson Full series source code...

While we work on rounding out our ES6/ES2015 support, the Chakra team is already looking ahead to ES2016 and, especially, to Link Removed. Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Async Functions in Microsoft Edge as an experimental feature, available to preview starting in Link...