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Signing into Windows 10 with your Face - Using an Xbox One Kinect with...
The original version of the Kinect camera had an Xbox version and a PC version, and this sucked for a few reasons. Fast forward to the days of Xbox One, and the Kinect v2 for Xbox One has changed a...
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Get the Windows Installer PowerShell Module easier with WMF 5.0
Many years ago when PowerShell was first in beta, I saw an opportunity to write cmdlets that I could string together in different ways rather than writing and maintaining a bunch of one-off Windows...
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3D Printing is for so much more than just making brightly colored plastic...
When you first start learning about 3D Printing you'll usually find yourself looking at a bunch of brightly colored plastic busts. The first 3D printed thing I ever saw was a florescent green Yoda...
View ArticleDevelopers’ Guide to Windows 10 Version 1511 Update – new videos now...
We’re happy to announce that the video recordings from last weeks’ Developers’ Guide to Windows 10 live event are now available on-demand on Channel 9. This half day event is an addendum to the...
View ArticleThe reboot of Coding4Fun
Today we are happy to announce the reboot of Coding4Fun; a site within Windows Dev Center that’s dedicated to exploring the lighter side of Windows 10 development. Our goal is pretty simple; create fun...
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New Apps in Time for the Holidays 2015
This is a good time of year for new releases, (do you have your BB-8), and that momentum extends to new apps in the Windows 10 ecosystem. The Universal Windows Platform provides developers with a...
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Bing Predicts goes 11-5 in Week 15, now 142-82 for the year
This week, our models predict Carolina to get one step closer to an unbeaten season, improving to 15-0 by beating Atlanta on the road, who they earlier beat 38-0 at home. In the battles for a first...
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Windows App Studio December 2015 Update
It’s the end of the year and the holiday season in many parts of the world, so we have one more release this year to celebrate all the App Studio enhancements in 2015, such as the launch of Windows 10...
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The week in .NET - 12/22/2015
Last week, we had a great time with Miguel de Icaza on the first episode of our new live YouTube show On.NET. On future episodes of the show, we want to have guests who represent every facet of the...
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Using Multi-user and roles in Dev Center
Earlier this month we announced the release of one of the most requested features in Dev Center: support for multiple users in a single Dev Center account with the ability to manage access through...
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Is your stomach bigger than your eyes?
For the past several months, friends have been bugging me to write another farm post – it’s been quite a while. The problem is that I haven’t been able to think of anything terribly interesting. Most...
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Exploring the new .NET "dotnet" Command Line Interface (CLI)
I've never much like the whole "dnvm" and "dnu" and "dnx" command line stuff in the new ASP.NET 5 beta bits. There's reasons for each to exist and they were and they have been important steps, both...
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Bing Predicts goes 10-6 in Week 16, now 152-88 for the year
Headed into the final weekend, 10 of the 12 playoff spots have been determined while much of the seeding remains wide open. Washington has the fourth seed secured while Houston virtually has their 4th...
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Become a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Developer Trainer
ALM MVP, Richard Hundhausen, is running a Professional Scrum Developer Trainer event in London, England 8-12 February, 2016. This event is host the only 2016 Scrum.Org training in the United Kingdom...
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The week in .NET - 12/29/2015
We have a short post this week, as many people are on vacation, including me. Unsurprisingly, no .NET user group has events for this week, so we'll skip the section this time.As always, this weekly...
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Top Posts for 2015
With the end of 2015 nearing, we wanted to take a moment to thank each of you for your feedback, enthusiasm and continued support of C++ and Visual Studio. We hope your year was productive and that...
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New Year Updates to ASP.NET WebHooks Preview
We just released a new update of ASP.NET WebHooks with a couple of interesting new features on the WebHooks sender side – that is, when you want to send WebHooks to others when some event happens –...
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Using Release Management for Test Automation
My colleague Abhishek Agarwal wrote a nice article on how the Release Management team dog-foods Release Management service as part of their development process. It is a good use case for how you can...
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The week in .NET - 1/5/2015
We're back for a new year of .NET! For this first week of 2016, we're off to a great start with two packages and lots of interesting posts.To read last week's post, see The week in .NET -...
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Windows 10 Store Growth Creates New Developer Opportunity in 2016
As we welcome 2016, I thought it only fitting to provide an update on our progress since the Windows 10 launch on July 29.As announced yesterday, over 200 million PCs, tablets and phones across the...
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