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Level Up is a show devoted to game development. Each show will recap current news and events in gaming, deep dive with a game industry insider, and cover tips for programming or finding resources to help you with game construction. We would love to hear from you with feedback or suggestions for what…

Today and next Wednesday, we're going to do a mini-Windows Phone Image App Dev Series. Today Vikram Pendse, whom we last highlighted here,Windows Phone 8.1 Text to Speech, Speech to Text and Cortana, provides a great tutorial for getting going with the Nokia Imaging SDK ->…

A few weeks ago we highlighted a project that helped you see diff's (aka pending changes, etc.) as you code for your Git projects, Get live diff's with Git Diff Margin Visual Studio Extension. Well what about TFS projects? TfsPendingChangesMargin A Visual Studio extension to display TFS Pending…

Special Note: This is the #1,000th Coding4Fun Blog post! Woot! Thanks for everyone's continued support and comments. And now, lets, well, look at some code! :) There you are, at a break point, debugging and need to quickly see a variable's data. Hover over it and you see... the class name... So we…

Oh.... missile launcher! Hacking a missile launcher is a long term favorite subject for Coding4Fun. I mean who doesn't want to code up a missle launcher to execute that perfect cube or room defense? Windows 8.1, HID and a Missile Launcher (Oh my)Kinect'ing to a Rocket Launcher? Oh yeah...Xbox One…

Project Spark has finally shipped and is now ready for every aspiring game developer. All you need is an XBox One or Windows 8.1 and you, or your game-dev-to-be, can start building games. No development experience needed, no major investment, just you, yr imagination and your spark... Today we…

Today's Visual Studio extension from Eros Fratini is another of those simple, do-one-thing, extensions, yet when you see it you say, "wow, that's awesome and makes so much sense..." WhereAmIWhereAmI is a simple extension that adds a layer on the background of your edit code window with a…

This week on Channel 9, we have another very special episode (yes, that's two in a row) but first, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:22] Build 2015[00:59] Connect();[02:23] Microsoft Ignite[03:11] Docker and Microsoft: Integrating Docker with Windows Server and…

Alma Obregón is an author and owner of retail cupcake stores in Spain. She built her app, AppCake Pefecto, using App Studio

And now for something a little different... Today's project by John Leitch is one that I thought kind of neat in a number of ways. First, I've always liked the though of embedding scripting in my app's. Second, I like that his approach is pretty lightweight and self-contained. Finally that the…