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Today's Mobile Monday post series by F Avery Bishop takes use to a place where we all hope and dread someday happens, real speech enabled applications. Waving your hands, touching screens, etc is nice and all, but until we can have real conversations with out devices, Star Trek like computers will…

Today's Hardware Friday post takes us to another .Net Micro Framework/Netduino developer who's been on knocking out a bunch of great articles and projects... C9'ers, this is Mario Vernari. Mario Vernari, this is C9'ers... A simple yet versatile GDI library for Netduino.This is my second attempt of…

Since the launch of this series Microsoft has released Windows 8 along with new editions of Visual Studio. In this short update video, Bob Tabor explains which versions of Visual Studio 2012 Express you should download and explains the difference between Visual Studio for Windows 8…

Today's "What do we do about our XNA Projects in a Windows Store World" Wednesday post is a project I stumbled on recently and given that there's a good bit of XNA code out there and that people are looking for ways to move it forward and/or reuse it (and that I like the acronym…

Today's "I can't think of a way to make it rhyme with Monday" project by Erdal Halici is frankly pretty awesome. Not only do we get a very cool way to design shapes for our app's, we get to do it in an awesome Visual Studio design experience AND we get the source to everything too. Oh…

I was looking for something different for today's Hardware Friday post and I think I found it. It's a little dated, and I'm not sure how finished it is, and there's no hardware schematic, but none-the-less, mixing beer, Netduino, Windows 8 (and twitter and facial recognition) was just too hard to…

The AR.Drone 2.0The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 is an awesome device packed with cool features. The drone contains two cameras, one pointed forward that streams live video, and one pointed downwards (for all your surveillance needs). Its got four powerful engines that make it fast and maneuverable. The…

In this video, Den Delimarsky summarizes his experiences building FallFury, highlighting the lessons he learned as a software developer on the Coding4Fun team at Microsoft. Check out the article for this video at http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Fall-Fury-Part-12-Conclusions For the…

Because of the large Windows 8 user base, FallFury was tested on different hardware with different input layouts. This video covers the basic setup necessary for remote debugging and performance tuning when connected to a test device, such as the Microsoft Surface. Check out the article for this…

Windows 8 offers a unified way to interact with other applications, as well as with the app's own settings, through charms. This video introduces you to the concept of Windows 8 charms and covers the implementation of a Settings and Share charm integration mechanism in FallFury. Check out the…