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Visual Studio 2017 15.4 introduced the new Windows Application Packaging project to help you modernizing your application by using the new Windows 10 App Deployment Stack. We talked about it in our previous post: Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 makes it easy to modernize your app and make it store...

Last year with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we introduced the Desktop Bridge to provide desktop applications a path to modernize with the Universal Windows Platform, and to distribute via the Windows Store and the Microsoft Store for Business to all Windows 10 PCs, including devices that...

Microsoft have released .Net Framework 4.7 which includes numerous fixes and updates (see below) Included are both download options, offline and online Downloading and installing the .NET Framework 4.7 You can download the .NET Framework 4.7 from the following locations: .NET Framework 4.7...

Developers, developers, developers! We’ve got quite a few updates for you this week, ranging from the upcoming live event to improved analytics for your apps in the Windows Store. Read on to see our recap of the past week. Windows Developers Day – Creators Update Only a few days left to RSVP...

In today’s post, we’re covering how PC software can leverage the rich functionality of Windows 10. This is valuable background for the upcoming post “Adding UWP Features to Your Existing PC Software with the Desktop Bridge,” which will go into even more detail on the topic in the coming days...

The UWPDesktop NuGet package is here to improve the developer experience with Visual Studio when walking along the Desktop Bridge. The Desktop Bridge allows you to call UWP APIs directly from your WinForms, WPF or VB application. You can use APIs such as Live tiles, notifications, App Services...

Today's project isn't a Visual Studio Extension, isn't a language or service. But it's something that will help what ever Dev has to do one time or another, editing environment variables. We've had environment for forever, but the UI to edit them has not really advanced. You have to remember...

Today Dwight Goins shares a great example on using one of the coolest features of the Kinect v2, heart rate detection... Link Removed When the latest Kinect sensor was unveiled more than a year ago at Build 2014, demos showed how it could determine a user’s heart rate without attaching...

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...

Today's series comes from Coding4Fun Friend, Bruno Capuano, where he shows off one of our favorite subjects, facial recognition, with a cloud twist. Bruno is showing off Microsoft's Project Oxford, Face API's and how you can get started using them. First, Project Oxford? Link Removed Welcome...

Today's series comes from Coding4Fun Friend, Bruno Capuano, where he shows off one of our favorite subjects, facial recognition, with a cloud twist. Bruno is showing off Microsoft's Project Oxford, Face API's and how you can get started using them. First, Project Oxford? Link Removed Welcome...

Okay, so this isn't a Visual Studio Extension, but I figure cool SDK's are a good Monday fit too... Link Removed The Link Removed made a big splash when it was announced, but since it's been a little quite. I personally wasn't following much about it because I didn't have a Sprout and you...

This is a great title for a post from Dwight Goins that I've been meaning to highlight for a while... My Kinect told me I have Dark Olive Green Skin… Did you know the Kinect for windows v2 has the ability to determine your Skin pigmentation and your hair color? – Yes I’m telling you the...

Kinect MVP Carl Franklin has done it again. He's not only released his Link Removed, but he's also released the source for it too. As you can see, Carl is a Friend of the Gallery; GesturePak v2.0 Public Beta GesturePak 2.0 Alpha for the Kinect for Windows v2 KinectTools v2 with BodyViewer...

You'd think everyone would be busy getting ready for Build and Ignite, but again this week there was a ton of great shows and news released... Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Vlad and Nikola discuss the week's top developer news, including;... Link Removed Link Removed welcomes Xavier...

Are you interested in the future and the roadmap for the WPF platform? If so, this session is for you. We will take an in-depth look at our areas of investment and the new features we are working on for .NET 4.6 and future releases of the WPF Platform. We will talk about how WPF platform will...

While I've not highlighted frameworks and such recently, when Brian Lagunas reached out to me about today's news I knew I had today's post. I've used Prism myself in a couple WPF LOB app's and found it pretty darn cool and useful. If you're building complex applications, with multiple team...

Are you build Visual Studio extensions? Will you do me a favor? Please consider your user's DPI. My primary machine runs at 3K (2880x1620) and since my eyes are old, the DPI is at 200%. If you're not running a High DPI machine you may be wondering what's the problem? If you are, like Scott...

Today Friend of the Gallery is back, today with a cool control you can use in your next Kinect for Windows WPF app. Other recent Gallery Posts for Vangos Pterneas; Understanding the Kinect Coordinate Mapping, with a little help from Vangos Pterneas Looking at the Kinect for Windows v2 Color...

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... :)...