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Today's Coding4Fun Visual Studio Extension Monday post combines two of my favorite things... well actually three. A cool extension, source code to spelunk and TFS... :) TFS Productivity PackThe TFS Productivity Pack is a set of extensions to Visual Studio designed to improve your interaction with…

Can you sense it? The excitement building around the coming conferences, Build and Ignite? While we're still a couple months away, given recently announcements, releases and updates, everyone seems to be getting ready for some great conferences! You didn't get it? Don't worry, both will have live…

Just saw the news that one of our favorite libs, Babylon.js has reached a new major milestone, v2.0! Big updates to Babylon.js 2.0...Major updatesSupport for WebAudio. More info here (davrous)Support for Procedural Texture with standard usable samples and custom support. More info here…

When I first saw today's project I was afraid it was a copy and rename of another project we recently highlighted. To give the author the benefit of the doubt, I asked... Nope, not a clone, copy or anything! Just great minds thinking alike... :) Anyway... Recently I highlighted a Visual Studio…

Today G. Andrew Duthie shares a great video where in just over 7 minutes he walks us through getting our first app written and deployed to a .NET Gadgeteer device. A few of the other times we've highlighted his cool work; Unboxing and some Visual Studio fun with the GHI FEZ Spider Gadgeteer Starter…

I've highlighted TouchDevelop just a few times... TouchDevelop to ArduinoTouchDevelop v3 - WinPhone 8, Speech, NFC, Tiles and much more...Reach out and touch the net with TouchDevelop and MaKey MaKeyDevelop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone... TouchDevelopGetting in touch with TouchDevelop…

I know, I know... I've been highlighting a number of Git related extensions recently. And I know all of YOU are using Git already (just like I am... um... errr.... um... kind of... yeah). Okay, fine, so I'm a Git noob. Right now Git continues to gain support, mindshare and seems to one of those…

Today's project is from Tim Dams, on a device that I'd not seen before, but now that I've seen how Tim is using it and that I can C# it, well... :) A C# Portable Class Library to talk with Smappee APII wrote a small C# portable class library (.NET4.5/WP8.1/Win8) that allow users to talk with the…

Today's project is cool fan created Windows 8.1 app for an area near and dear to my heart... Channel9 Blog Reader AppIntroductionThe app tutorial for Windows Blog Reader at msdn.com is out of date, the feed links don't work, and there are some other unknown problems. To Address that problem, I took…

Are you build Visual Studio extensions? Will you do me a favor? Please consider your user's DPI. My primary machine runs at 3K (2880x1620) and since my eyes are old, the DPI is at 200%. If you're not running a High DPI machine you may be wondering what's the problem? If you are, like Scott…