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  1. Bridging the WinPhone to UWP Gap...

    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...
  2. Initial preview of Silverlight bridge to UWP

    Today marks the initial release of Mobilize.NET’s Silverlight bridge, which helps Windows Phone Silverlight app developers bring their WP Silverlight 8.x apps to the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Announced at Build 2015, the Moblize.NET bridge is free and directly integrates into...
  3. Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2015

    Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications lets you add and run VSTA customizations in applications that are integrated with VSTA. Link Removed
  4. Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2015 SDK

    Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications lets you enable end users to customize your existing applications using Visual Basic and Visual C#. Link Removed
  5. Building Windows 10 Games with Unity 5

    In our second Link Removed theme week post, Link Removed and Link RemovedLink Removed spend 6+ hours teaching you have to create 3D Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform games with Unit 5... Link Removed Are you looking to build 3D games with Unity 5 for the Windows 10 Universal Windows...
  6. Update for Visual Studio 2015 RTM (KB3092422)

    This update fixes the issue in which devenv.com process freezes after executing devenv.com /build command in Visual Studio 2015 Link Removed
  7. Dynamically detecting features with API contracts (10 by 10)

    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...
  8. 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...
  9. Unity Support for Windows 10

    Today, Link Removedwhich includes support for Windows 10 and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). With UWP support in Unity 5.2, developers can build a single game for Windows 10 that targets multiple devices ranging from phones to tablets to PCs to Xbox. This means that multiple screen sizes...
  10. A little light on AllJoyn and Cortana

    Last we we highlighted, Jumpstart your Win10 IoT development with the AllJoyn Studio for Visual Studio 2015. This post from Link Removed, Official Coding4Fun Friend seemed like a great follow-up. Not only do we have AllJoyn but how can you go wrong with Cortana too? Link Removed This post...
  11. Building your own Windows 10 Web Browser

    Seems like with every Windows release, there's a set of sample apps that wrap the browser, showing you how you can add your own chrome (as in UI) to it, adding features and behaviors, creating your own web browser. Windows 10 is no different. Then again it is, because this time around, it's...
  12. Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2015 (Beta7) – Visual Studio 2015

    This download contains the Beta 7 release of the .NET Version Manager and an update to Visual Studio 2015 for ASP.NET 5 Beta 7 Link Removed
  13. Last Week on Channel 9: August 24th - August 30th, 2015

    It's getting harder and harder to select just a few of the videos posted in the previous week, there's just so much great content! So, while I try to keep this lists under control, here are a select 31 shows, episodes and posts from last week... Link Removed The Truth About Microsoft Azure...
  14. Update for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 4 (KB2989277)

    TFS 2012 QU4 Update - KB2989277 Link Removed
  15. Update for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 (KB2989279)

    TFS 2013 RTM Update - KB2989279 Link Removed
  16. Visual Studio 2012 Update 5

    This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2012. Link Removed
  17. Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2012 Update 5

    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...
  18. Jumpstart your Win10 IoT development with the AllJoyn Studio for Visual Studio 2015

    Building Windows 10 IoT? Then you'll want to check out the Link Removed and Brian Rockwell's great post on how to use it... Link Removed AllJoyn® in Windows® 10 An AllJoyn® development toolkit to quick-start AllJoyn® development. The AllSeen Alliance created AllJoyn® to empower the Internet...
  19. Creating your own browser with HTML and JavaScript

    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...
  20. Go beyond "Blank App" with these Windows 10 VS 2015 Project Templates

    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...