Jim Galasyn's Learning Curve
Adventures in developer learning.
Sign up for the Visual Studio 2017 launch event
Believe it or not, this year is the 20-year anniversary of Visual Studio, and Visual Studio 2017...
Date: 02/10/2017
Create cross-device experiences with the Project Rome SDK for Android
Get it here. Program Manager Carmen Forsmann explains: Project Rome is a platform for creating...
Date: 02/09/2017
New course: Microsoft Blockchain as a Service
Ever wondered if Microsoft has a blockchain solution? Wonder no more, and find out how it works by...
Date: 01/19/2017
Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 is posted
Get it here: Visual Studio “15” Preview 5. VS “15” is cooking along at a good pace, and the latest...
Date: 10/10/2016
New course on edX: CSS Introduction
Enrollment just opened for a new course on CSS that we’re doing with the W3C on edX, taught by Kasey...
Date: 09/16/2016
Bring your Windows desktop applications to the Windows Store with the Desktop App Converter
At long last. Now you can convert your Windows desktop applications (Win32, WPF, etc.) to install as...
Date: 09/15/2016
Calling local coders to join inaugural Zoohackathon
By Alissa Wolken8 September 2016 (Woodland Park Zoo) – Coders and technology experts from the...
Date: 09/14/2016
Microsoft HoloLens: Actiongram Beta featuring George Takei
During my tour of duty helping out the HoloLens team, I was fortunate to visit the amazing...
Date: 09/12/2016
Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK now available – Submit your desktop apps to the Windows Store by using Centennial bridge
Download here: Anniversary Update SDK. Lots of good stuff here, including improvements to Ink,...
Date: 08/03/2016
Node.js Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio 2015 available
Download: Node.js Tools 1.2. The Visual Studio Engineering Team has announced the latest version of...
Date: 08/01/2016
Office brings Focused Inbox to all versions of Outlook – Clutter folder to be retired
If you’re on Android or iOS, you may have noticed that Outlook has a neat feature, named “Focused...
Date: 07/29/2016
Microsoft Professional Degree: Data Science
Alison Cunard announces the Microsoft Professional Degree (MPD) program, which she describes like...
Date: 07/13/2016
More Personal Computing: Deep dive into the FamilyNotes sample app
Before I moved to DX, I worked on a great team of content developers, and we created the FamilyNotes...
Date: 07/11/2016
Announcing .NET Core 1.0 for OS X, Linux, and Windows
Here’s the most exciting news in cross-platform development since Microsoft acquired Xamarin: .NET...
Date: 07/05/2016
Intro to DevOps: New certificate class at edX
Enroll here: Introduction to DevOps. You may have heard that the cool kids are adopting a new...
Date: 07/01/2016
Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 is available
Download: Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. New and improved features: Tools for Apache Cordova Developer...
Date: 06/30/2016
Edward Tufte is coming to town
At least, if you live in Denver, Seattle, or Portland. The famous data-visualization guru is...
Date: 06/28/2016
Going cross-platform with Visual Studio and Xamarin
Xamarin is Microsoft’s most exciting acquisition since Skype and Acompli. (Okay, LinkedIn is pretty...
Date: 06/27/2016
Remote Desktop for Windows 10 exits preview, now available as a UWP app
Remote Desktop may be my favorite Windows Store app, and now it’s generally available for Windows 10...
Date: 06/23/2016
More Personal Computing in Windows 10: Using Ink, Voice, and Face Recognition in a UWP App
Our team wanted to demonstrate some of the “More Personal Computing” features – what the rest of the...
Date: 06/16/2016
Blog reboot
It’s been exactly two years since my last post, so it’s about time to reboot the blog. After two...
Date: 06/02/2016
Visual Studio “14” CTP is available
Download here. Remember that this is a CTP and isn’t meant for production environments; please...
Date: 06/05/2014
DirectX 12 announced: Get the deets here
Matt Sandy dishes on DirectX 12. It’s gonna rock. DirectX 12 introduces the next version of...
Date: 03/21/2014
Weathr, a 3D weather app: code sample in C++, DirectX, and XAML
Thomas Petchel knocked this out in his spare time: While working on the Hilo C++ project, I really...
Date: 12/16/2013
First look: Kinect for Windows v2 Developer Preview SDK
Longtime readers know that I have great enthusiasm for the Kinect sensor as a revolutionary NUI...
Date: 11/27/2013
DirectX game templates for Visual Studio are posted
Get them here. Are you creating a game for the Windows Store? If you’re looking for...
Date: 11/25/2013
Add Facebook login to your Windows Store apps
Sanjeev Dwivedi posts the details: Today, we are excited to announce that on Windows Store apps and...
Date: 11/14/2013
How to align sensors with your app’s orientation
Brian Rockwell presents a quick overview showing how to align a device’s sensors with your app’s...
Date: 11/12/2013
Quick tips for porting a XAML Split App to Windows 8.1
If you have an app in the Windows Store already, and you used the Split App (XAML) template as the...
Date: 10/21/2013
Reddit: Hi! We're Windows 8.1 engineers. Ask us anything!
Closed now, but still some interesting stuff in here: Hello everyone! We’re a group of engineers...
Date: 10/17/2013
Publishing your apps to the Windows Store for Windows 8.1
With today’s announcement of Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 availability, the Windows Store is...
Date: 10/17/2013
Retargeting your Windows Store apps to Windows 8.1 and WinJS 2.0
Eric Schmidt has the lowdown on navigating your Windows Store apps using JavaScript to the release...
Date: 10/08/2013
Kinect for Windows SDK v1.8 released, with HTML5, Kinect Fusion improvements, and more
Download it here: Kinect for Windows SDK v1.8. Also: Kinect for Windows Developer Toolkit v1.8....
Date: 09/17/2013
Neuroheadset Kickstarter project: 34 hours and $16,000 to go on $1.5 million goal – UPDATE: We made it!
I’m very enthusiastic about this project. If it reaches the $1.5 million stretch goal in the next 34...
Date: 09/14/2013
Greatly improved neuroheadset closes in on $1.5 million Kickstarter goal
Longtime readers know that I’ve been a big supporter of Emotiv’s EPOC neuroheadset from the...
Date: 09/03/2013
Notes on porting to DirectX 11.1: Textures
Previously: Notes on porting to DirectX 11.1 from earlier versions A lot changed between DX11 and...
Date: 08/16/2013
Notes on porting to DirectX 11.1 from earlier versions
Yours truly has moved to a new team in the Windows Developer Content org, so now I focus on DirectX...
Date: 08/06/2013
Use open source code in your Windows Store apps: Cocos2DX, Cinder, Ogre3D, Box2D, Bullet, OpenCV, and Angle in Visual C++
Olivier Bloch brings the good news: MS Open Tech has been working with many open source technologies...
Date: 07/15/2013
API diff report for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Preview
Koen Zwikstra at First Floor Software has published a diff report of the Windows 8 and Windows 8.1...
Date: 07/08/2013
Build 2013 roundup
In case you weren't able to attend Build 2013 last week (like me), Jake Sabulsky wraps it up for us:...
Date: 07/01/2013
New help for porting iOS apps to Windows Store apps
The following new articles for iOS developers are live on the Windows Store apps Dev Center: Windows...
Date: 06/27/2013
Install Windows 8.1 Preview
Here: Get the update UPDATE: Download the ISO Get Visual Studio 2013 preview too. Details...
Date: 06/26/2013
One Dev Minute videos are live on Channel 9
One of the projects that your truly has been working on this year is a series of quick video...
Date: 06/20/2013
Asynchronous programming for Windows Store apps written in JavaScript
Kraig Brockschmidt has a nice intro to the async model for Windows Store apps, focusing on...
Date: 06/12/2013
Windows 8.1 features revealed
Antoine Leblond has a quick summary of new features in Windows 8.1 (aka Windows Blue): Continuing...
Date: 05/30/2013
Create location aware apps using geolocation and Bing Maps
Ross Heise has a quick walkthrough on adding geolocation to your Windows store Apps. Here’s a bit of...
Date: 05/22/2013
New Windows Dev Center experience is live
Check it out here. It’s much more colorful and engaging, and hopefully it’s easier to find the...
Date: 05/15/2013