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Now this has been a month! All I really need to say is, Connect();! :) Coding4Fun BlogThis is a case where Margin is a good thing. TFS Pending Changes in the margin Visual Studio ExtensionPicture this, the Nokia Imaging SDK and youWPF Bluetooth data transfer with 32feet.NETILSpy, the Visual Studio…

You all know that training, education, getting kids (both real kids and the kid inside all of us) excited about development is something I like to blog about. There's fewer bigger events toward that than next month's Hour of Code. Anyone can learn the basics, and have fun doing it!Are you a…

Did you know you can create your own Visual Studio Start Pages (MSDN)? When that capability first came it, it was all the rage (well, kind of) to create custom start pages. Now, it seems to be pretty rare, so when I saw this project I knew I had to share it with you all. BetterStartPageThis is a…

Today's Hardware Friday post is on a project I've not seen mentioned too often, but now that I know about it, I'll be keeping a much closer eye on it! Barry Briggs recent post is where I first heard about it... Architects at WorkHere in Microsoft’s TED (Technical Evangelism and Development)…

Michael H.C. Cummings is back with an outstanding getting started guide on creating Universal apps/games with OGRE. He walks you through every step, from getting the OGRE source, building it, creating the Universal projects to the final build and run... Here's a couple times we've previously…

I know all of you watched last week's Connect(); virtual event? Or you've been catching up on-demand? You've all seen the Net explode with word about the newly released version of Visual Studio? What? There's that 1 out of a hundred that hasn't? Well we can't have that! Introducing Visual Studio…

Today with have not only one, but two Halloween projects. One from Abhinaba Basu and the other, Jamie Dixon (whom I got to meet and chat with last week at the Microsoft MVP Summit... Yep, he's as cool and passionate as you might think from his posts and projects :) I can hear you already,…

Last week I kicked off a mini-Windows Phone Image App Dev Series, highlighting the Nokia Imaging SDK, Picture this, the Nokia Imaging SDK and you. The thing is that the Nokia Imaging SDK was released months previous as was the post I highlighted. Today, I'm highlighting something much fresher and…

Today's Visual Studio Extension is one that can and will come in handy and is a must tool belt have... Sometimes you've got an assembly, but no PDB or Source, and you just need to peek at how it works. Years ago, we highlighted the open source decompiler ILSpy, I spy with my little eye... ILSpy.…

Today's hardware Friday post is really hardware'ish. I mean building a WPF that communicates to other devices via Bluetooth is a "hardware" post, right? Sara Silva, who's project we just highlighted last week, More Modern UI for WPF examples and samples, is back, this time, well, showing…