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  1. VIDEO Announcing Microsoft Edge WebView2 General Availability

    Today, we are excited to announce that Microsoft Edge WebView2 for Win32 C/C++ is generally available and ready for use in production applications! With today’s announcement, we are officially releasing a forward-compatible WebView2 SDK along with production-ready WebView2 Runtime. These can be...
  2. Announcing support for Pen with Windows Application Driver v1.1 – Preview available now

    Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) is continuing Microsoft’s investment in UI test automation tools for Windows 10, and now, we’re excited to announce the next release of WinAppDriver—version 1.1! A preview is available today— bringing support for Pen automation. The full v1.1 release is...
  3. Visio 2016 SDK

    The Microsoft Visio 2016 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains the latest documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools that you need to develop custom solutions for Visio 2016. Link Removed
  4. Lumia Imaging SDK v3 (No, it's not just for phones...)

    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...
  5. UWP Layout using SplitView and RelativePanel in C# with XAML | Inside Windows Platform

    This week, Shen and I took a look at how you can very easily use the new XAML SplitView control to build an experience in your UWP application that automatically _adapts_ based on the current size of your application. As you may imagine, this is one of the foundational building blocks we...
  6. App Development with Cortana | Visual Studio Toolbox

    In this episode, Robert is joined by Link Removed, who shows us how to integrate Cortana into apps. Among the topics Nick covers and shows are voice commands, speech recognition and synthesis, background voice commands and continuous dictation. Resources: Link Removed Nick's Demos Link...
  7. Getting Going with Kinect v2 Development

    Mike Taulty, long time Coding4Fun Friend, recently presented at a London Kinect Hack Event on how to quickly get started developing with the Kinect for Windows v2. Lucky for us, he's shared it with us...; Here are just a few times we've highlighted Mike's work; Just face it... with these two...
  8. NEWS Ask Well: Is the Ebola Epidemic Ending in Africa?

    Q: Is the Ebola epidemic ending in Africa? A: No one knows exactly what is going on in West Africa. Several medical groups, like Doctors Without Borders, are reporting that they suddenly have far more beds than patients. In some cases, there are empty beds at centers where, just a few weeks ago...
  9. VIDEO Windows Developer Program for IoT now rolling out

    Oh you know I couldn't pass this up as our Hardware Friday post! It's IoT, it's Windows, much will be open source, it's new and it's IoT (yeah, I know I already said that, but it's IoT! ;! Link Removed Link Removed You’ve heard quite a bit recently about Microsoft’s strategy for bringing...
  10. Visual Studio 2013 SDK Samples Released

    For the past few months we've been highlighting projects and examples that extend Visual Studio in one way or another. Well today's post is the "Mother of all Visual Studio Extensibility Post." Why? When the examples come from the Visual Studio Product Team itself, that's hard to beat... :)...
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    Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1 Virus protection compared to other Windows

    The news on anti-virus death is greatly exaggerated. The right way to look at it is that antivirus is not, and may never have been, a sufficient means by which to protect the user against attack. But, for most users, it's still an important front-line defense. One great advantage of Windows 8.1...
  12. Windows 7 Need a Font Preview Tool to Display All Installed Fonts at Once

    I know that I can select fonts one at a time, until I find one that I like, but that is more tedious than I would like. Is there a program available that will scan all of the fonts on my computer, and display samples of all of them at one time?
  13. Windows 7 Announcing the Official Release of Rx!

    You've learned a lot about Rx (Reactive Extensions) on C9 over the years. You've seen Rx go from incubation stage to DevLabs project to having a happy home on the Link Removed. Today, we're very pleased to announce that Link Removed Link Removed Rx V1 will ship as a stable release with...
  14. Windows 7 Setting Up Your Development Environment

    This video covers how to set up your development environment. You may find it easier to follow along by downloading the Link Removed. [Link Removed] Sample Requirements [Link Removed] Starting the Demo [Link Removed] Adding References [Link Removed] Coding4Fun Kinect Library [Link Removed]...
  15. Excessive radioactive cesium found in fish sampled off Fukushima

    Radioactive cesium above the legal limit for consumption was detected Saturday in young sand lance caught off Fukushima Prefecture, as the prefecture took samples amid a voluntary ban on fishing there in the wake of the ongoing nuclear crisis. One of the four sample fish had a level of cesium of...
  16. Windows 7 Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7: A look at the new IE Test Drive samples

    Rob Mauceri, Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer, shows some of the new developer samples available in the seventh build of the IE9 Platform Preview available on the Link Removed. Link Removed More...
  17. Windows 7 DC2010T0100 - Keynote - Rx: curing your asynchronous programming blues

    Speaker: Link Removed Aufzeichnung vom Link Removed 2010 in Wien, am 12. Oktober 2010 Organisiert von den Partnern TechTalk, Cubido und CSS. Microsoft Österreich unterstützte das Event als Hauptsponsor und hat auch selbst einige Sessions abgehalten. At Microsofts Professional Developers...
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    Windows 7 Gadgets not displaying correctly

    For some odd reason, about a month ago all gadgets in my win 7 ultimate stopped working correctly and now look like this when extended: Link Removed due to 404 Error Not even samples for the clock are displayed correctly anymore, instead I just get this red X-es. I've tried many things...