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You can lead a dev to... "Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 with leaderboard in Windows Azure"Apr 29, 2013 at 6:00 AM
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Today's Modern Monday project is by Petri Wilhelmsen and takes you by the hand and walks you through creating a new Windows Store App game that leverages Azure Game Starterkit for Windows 8 with leaderboard in Windows AzureThis Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 contains what you need to get started… -
.NET Gadgeteer Core gets VS2012 support in v2.42.700Apr 26, 2013 at 6:00 AM 1
Today's Hardware Friday is about one of our favorite hardware things, the .NET Gadgeteer and its updated Code release... .NET Gadgeteer Core 2.42.700The .NET Gadgeteer Core installer includes the core libraries and end user project templates for Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer. This is a prerequisite for… -
Digital Public Library of America (Think "Open web API you can build cool apps for")Apr 24, 2013 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's Web Wednesday isn't a Visual Studio project. Isn't Windows Phone. Windows Azure, or even a Microsoft project. It's not even written in a usual Microsoft sphere language (much appears to be written with Ruby). So why am I highlighting it here? But it looks like a awesome resource that you can… -
DrumkitX - Bringing the X, as in DirectX, to your Windows Phone 8 DrumkitApr 22, 2013 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's Mobile Monday project is a simple project yet one that shows off a number of things. For one it show meshing C# and DirectX/C++. For another it shows off the DirectX Toolkit and finally who doesn't like to play a little (get it, little?) drums? DrumkitXA Windows Phone 8 port of the… -
http://NWS... A NETMF Web Server (with source of course)Apr 19, 2013 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's Hardware Friday project is one from someone I've been wanting to highlight for a while, and finally, the time is just right. Laurent Ellerbach has been building some pretty cool .Net Micro Framework projects for a while now. Here's just a few; Lighting my Lego city using .NET Microframework… -
Console (not that kind) Space InvadersApr 17, 2013 at 6:00 AM 5
Today's project is a deceptively simple project that's just fun, for the fun of it. I mean, who doesn't love a good console (as in command line console) game of... Space InvadersProject DescriptionThe classic Space Invaders game written in C#. **Space Invaders The Game **The project represents… -
Speed your Phone App Dev with the Cimbalino Windows Phone ToolkitApr 15, 2013 at 6:00 AM 2
Today's Mobile Monday is a toolkit by Pedro Lamas that will help speed up your Windows Phone 7.x and 8 app development. Yeah, I know it feels like I've been doing allot frameworks recently, but in my weird world, playing with new frameworks and seeing how they work is "fun". Why? They let… -
![I'm thinking of... Mindwave + Arduino ["ThinkUino"]](http://files.channel9.msdn.com/thumbnail/fef45471-60e7-4341-9879-6638fa1b7070.png)
I'm thinking of... Mindwave + Arduino ["ThinkUino"]Apr 12, 2013 at 6:00 AM 2
Today's Hardware Friday takes back to one of my favorite areas (okay, yeah I have a bunch of those, but still), mind to PC interfaces. I can't wait for the day when I can ditch my keyboard, mouse, voice, touch, gesture devices and just think at my PC. Talk about a "natural interface!"… -
C++, three parts, 3D and the Visual Studio 3D Starter KitApr 10, 2013 at 6:00 AM 4
Five months ago we highlighted the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, Getting started with C++/3D/WinStore Game Dev with the "Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit." Today we're going to highlight parts one and two of a three part series on developing a Windows 8 app with it... Developing an app… -
Proximity Tapper helps you build/test NFC in your Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 app'sApr 08, 2013 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's Mobile & Modern Monday project will help you built NFC (Near Field Communication) based Windows Phone 8 app's. Imagine you want to create the next cool NFC app, an app that connects two devices. But you only have one device! How are you going to test your app? What you need is a NFC…
