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As I noted in an earlier post [  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2012/11/06/are-you-slat-compatible-wp8-sdk-tip-01.aspx ], the Windows Phone 8 emulator requires Hyper-V if you wish to work against the emulator.  So what’s going on under the hood?  Let’s take a peek at some of the...

Many people were quite annoyed by the decision to not ship XNA as part of the Windows Metro Development space for Windows 8. The MonoGame project has stepped in and is building a cross-platform game solutions for XNA. Note that MonoGame is still under development, and you may hit some things that don’t...

Recently I came across the question: "I want to change the cursor in my Windows 8 Metro style application to a custom cursor I've designed. So, how can I use the custom cursor in metro app ? The Windows.UI.Core.CoreCursorType.Custom parameter for the Windows.UI.Core.CoreCursor constructor seems to indicate...

The June 2011 version of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Traning Course was released recently. In the course are a variety of videos and hands on labs to help you with things like Azure, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Workflow, WCF, C# 4.0, VB10, F#, ASP.NET 4.0, and Parallel computing. Overall...

I'm not normally a reblogger, but is a "necessary share". The VS team just released the first Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Web Developer Express 2010 SP1. The VS team have focused on bringing the HTML5 support up-to-date, adding CSS 3 support and bring more new API’s...