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Watch yourselves boys and girls because Link Removed has created something special (scary?) here! Learn how you can perform your own Lie Detection tests by capturing EEG (brainwave) data and then feeding that info into Azure Machine Learning to determine when people are telling you the truth and...

In this on-location special for Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder invade Raymond Chen's office. Raymond is a 23yr veteran of Microsoft, who's worked on everything from MS-DOS to the Windows 10 UI. We talk about his Blog and Link Removed Old New Thing, Security Reports on the wrong...

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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...

In Windows 10, we've made it exceedingly easy to add "Drag and Drop" functionality to your UWP application. As you're probably aware, "drag and drop" is by no means a new feature for Windows applications. For a very long time, the notion for the user to able to move objects within a single...

Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2015 enables remote debugging, remote testing, and unit testing on computers that don't have Visual Studio installed. This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, and the deployment and performance profiling of Windows apps on computers...

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...

This update fixes the issue in which devenv.com process freezes after executing devenv.com /build command in Visual Studio 2015 Link Removed

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...

One of our most prolific Kinect Developers and Kinect MVP, Friend of the Gallery Tango Chen (Jingzhou Chen) is back with another take on Minecrafting with the Kinect Minecraft in Real Life using Kinect v2 Hey guys, I just developed this Kinect v2 application a few days ago. It lets you be...

This week on Channel 9, Nikola and returning guest host Petri discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed, Link Removed, Link Removed, Lenovo ideapad MIIX 700 is a Skylake-powered, Surface-like, Windows 10 tablet [Brian Fagioli], Link Removed Link Removed Link...

In this video Sachin Patney and Nico Cristache describe the process of creating custom visualizations for Power BI. It is remarkable how easy it is to create any kind of visualization given the framework that's been set up. The best part of their explanation is where they detail the fact that...

This blog was written by Rinku Sreedhar, Senior Program Manager In Windows 10 we added a multiple new sensor features, innovations and changes. In my previous blog, I talked about the new contextual sensing features like activity sensors, pedometers, barometer and proximity sensors. In this...

Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2012 enables remote debugging, remote testing, and performance unit testing on computers that don't have Visual Studio installed. This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, deployment, and performance profiling of Windows apps to...

Over the past several months, we have made numerous improvements to the Microsoft Edge rendering engine (Microsoft EdgeHTML), focusing on interoperability with modern browsers and compliance with new and emerging standards. In addition to powering Microsoft Edge, EdgeHTML is also available for...

Like many of you, I'm looking at jumping into developing Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform apps. So like most of you, I fire up Visual Studio, New Project and look for a Project Template to help me hit the ground running. Let's see, for creating a Windows 10 app there's... one UI template...

As soon as I read Mansib Rahman's post yesterday (as I write this) I knew I found the perfect project to highlight. I mean, come on it's Professor Stephen Hawking, Intel, .NET, WinForms (got to show some WinForm love now and then), open source and it's just cool! Link Removed I’m typing this...

Take a look at how Windows 10 brings a single platform experience to many different devices and how Windows tooling and .NET Native provide developers with a great opportunity to create amazing apps. Link Removed Continue reading...

I can't figure out how to add my own app to the 'Open with' dialogue box (below). I want to open files with an .spv file type with an app. I compiled with Visual C++. In other words I want my app to open when I double-click on any file ending in .spv. It works fine from the command line...

This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Vlad discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Channel 9 Live: Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 Link Removed Link Removed [Gabe Aul] Link RemovedHello, Windows 10 IoT Core [Steve Teixeira] Link Removed Contextual Sensing in Windows 10...