In this video, I demonstrate one of the great new features in Windows 8: File History. File history keeps a chronological history of your files automatically, and it's easy to restore data when you need to as shown in this video. You can see the full post for this story on the Extreme Windows Blog.…

Friend of the Gallery, David Renton, is back, this week with two different updates and projects. Today... Kinect Magic Cursor version 1.7 with Gesture supportI am releasing a new version of Kinect Magic Cursor which works much like the last version except it now uses gestures to simulate the left…

Join your guides Brady Gaster and Cory Fowler as they talk to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. In this Episode, Thomas Robbins, Chief Evangelist at Kentico CMS. Thomas outlines the features of Kentico CMS and talks about their full range of support for…

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). Resources:Defrag Tools: #23 - Windows 8 SDKDefrag Tools: #29 - WinDbg - ETW LoggingWindows Performance Analysis Developer CenterWindows Performance…

In a race to optimize everything, developers often go to extremes to build software that performs routine tasks. MissionControl is a system that allows users to program a control center that stores interfaces with attached hardware sensors, allowing the users to control any other devices that can be…

Todays' project by Christer Kaitila is a kit that will help you quickly and easily build Windows 8 Platform games. Almost painfully easy to create games... If you've ever wanted to create your own platform game, and you've got a weekend, this kit is just for you... Windows 8 Platformer Game Starter…

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Delivered by Microsoft product experts, TechEd Foundational Sessions lay the groundwork for breakout sessions and labs you'll take part in during the week.  They bridge the overarching messages presented in the Keynote with the detailed instruction provided in breakout sessions, helping you get…

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:10] 100 million licenses, 250 million Store app downloads, 400 million active Outlook accounts [00:56] Build will release a public preview of “Windows Blue” [01:36] Visual Studio 2012.3 (Update 3) “go-live”…

Legendary and renowned author Charles Petzold together with Principal Technical Evangelist Jaime Rodriguez led this fast-paced live Q&A session on Microsoft Windows programing.  They fielded one question after the other from the audience on how to use C# and XAML to build Windows 8 apps.…