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One of our, and likely your, favorite new code editors is VSCode. But it's Friday and we post hardware and IoT stuff today. So I'm thinking highlight the new IoT Extension for VS Code is something perfect to share today... :) Windows IoT Core Extension for Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code is the…

Ratish Philip, whom we've highlighted before Adding a modern spark to your WPF apps, with WPFSpark, is back! This time with a very cool set of controls and helper classes for anyone doing UWP dev with Windows.UI.Composition. ratishphilip/CompositionProToolkit Collection of Helper classes and…

Sometimes it's the little extensions that add up to allot... How often do you need to get NuGet info on an assembly in your Project References? Maybe look them up on Stack Overflow? Or simply want to see the version numbers for a set of References? Matthew Burleigh needed this once too many times,…

Now that's allot of Pi! Eben Upton has written a little about their journey to 10 million and also introduces a new premium kit... Ten millionth Raspberry Pi, and a new kitWhen we started Raspberry Pi, we had a simple goal: to increase the number of people applying to study Computer Science at…

Have you been dreaming of building the next great app for your Xbox One? Always wanted to build an app for your gaming console? Do you see the big black or white box, hooked up to that big screen and wish you could run your app there? Now you can! UWP apps on XboxWhether you bring your existing UWP…

Do I have to say it? Or can I just [Insert Greg's Standard Love of Snippets Snippet Here]? Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole and the creator of the Code Snippet Studio, was recently interviewed by Syncfusion, providing a different and cool behind baseball look at him and the app... Project Demo:…

Today's project from Matt is one of those that you might not use or do for your day job, but is something awesome to do on the weekends! FlappyHand: Unity3D game with an ESP8266 Arduino (Wemos) controller over WiFiI thought it would be fun to make a little FlappyBird clone using an ultrasonic sensor…

This year MonoGame, one of our favorite cross platform development frameworks, has gotten a new lease on life. First it shed its original connect to XNA and has now been embraced by the Xbox One, MonoGame on the Xbox One? It's coming soon... (Yes, really) and How MonoGame is bringing more indie…

Welcome back to the Mads Kristensen blog! Just kidding... But I wouldn't be surprised if you might think that, given the number of times we highlight his work. Well it's all his fault! If he would just stop release cool extensions and stuff! For example, today we're highlighting not one project of…

Sometimes we just need a quick leg up in out IoT journey. WinBeta's Michael Cottuli recently wrote about the AT&T IoT Starter Kit which is just that... AT&T’s IoT Starter Kit now available for Azure IoT SuiteEarlier this year, we reported that AT&T was looking into a future in the…