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Digging into your code with the free Microsoft Code Digger and the power of PexMay 08, 2013 at 6:00 AM| 28,988 views this month
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Have Visual Studio 2012? Building Portable Libraries? Wonder what all the weird and wild code paths your code might have, but it hurts your brain to try to write every possible path in your unit tests? Want a free extension that throws everything at your code, but the kitchen sink? (though I think… -
Ludus Windows 8 Game Starter Kit - Pleasing the Platformer in you...May 13, 2013 at 6:00 AM| 13,500 views this month 5
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… -
Getting in touch with TouchDevelop (Think "From What to Wow")May 06, 2013 at 6:00 AM| 10,207 views this month 0
David Renton, Friend of the Coding4Fun Kinect Gallery, has expanded his efforts to showing off the power of, and helping us learn, TouchDevelop. TouchDevelop has been highlighted before, Develop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone... TouchDevelop, yet this time, David's hours of videos and pages… -
Andy and Okra is your Windows 8 App Store MVVM app building supercharger...1 day ago| 5,422 views this month 0
Today's Modern Monday project by Andrew Wilkinson is one of those kinds of projects that makes me love developers. Imagine this... Building Windows 8 MVVM app... Gaa, don't like the available templates, but good enough to start with. hack, hack, hack. Building second app. Ahh, templates again...… -
Visual Studio Data (Set, Table, Row, View, RowView, RowViewCollection) VisualizerMay 01, 2013 at 6:00 AM| 4,994 views this month 2
Today's "I don't know what to call it" Wednesday project is one that's just a little different, not a game or anything, but something I've not seen mentioned too much recently. Visual Studio has these cool things to help you in your debugging, called Visualizers. They help you see beyond… -
.NET Gadgeteer Core gets VS2012 support in v2.42.700Apr 26, 2013 at 6:00 AM| 2,881 views this month 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… -
Knock, knock... Building an Arduino Door Entry AlarmMay 10, 2013 at 6:00 AM| 2,774 views this month 1
It's time for a little hardware hacking (in a good sense). No plug and play here, we're talking breadboards, wires, Arduino and some coding Okay, maybe this isn't "hacking" nor all the hardcore [at all] but for a non-circuit guy like me, it is... Arduino Fun – Door Entry AlarmPhysical… -
Digital Public Library of America (Think "Open web API you can build cool apps for")Apr 24, 2013 at 6:00 AM| 2,747 views this month 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… -
"Here comes the sun..." with Solar TrackerMay 03, 2013 at 6:00 AM| 2,737 views this month 0
Well it's Solar Time again! Yep, it's been like, what, days since I've done a solar or energy related project? Well enough of that! Today's Hardware Friday by Graham Ross might seem simple, but is one that I think you can adapt for anything number of cool hardware projects... Solar TrackerProject… -
You can lead a dev to... "Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 with leaderboard in Windows Azure"Apr 29, 2013 at 6:00 AM| 2,604 views this month 0
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…
