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Unity Windows Store Open Beta – Get it and Learn it!
Unity now has an open beta for Windows Store apps, and there is a two day training event to help you...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 03/19/2013
Who ya gonna call?
You now have two great places to call when you need help with an app: a developer mentor or an...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 03/18/2013
Template of the week: Windows 8 HTML5 Pong Game
HTML5 Pong is a great template for developers who are new to HTML5/Canvas or game development in...
Author: Mickey MacDonald Date: 03/08/2013
Building a Great App Step 9: Break out the pencil and paper
Before you start dragging controls onto the screen, take a step back and think about the layout and...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 03/05/2013
Download the Windows Phone 8 Training kit
The Windows Phone 8 Training Kit contains labs to help you learn how to build an app on Windows...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 03/04/2013
Template of the week: Windows 8/Web/Phone HTML5 Game Yeti Bowl
Yetibowl is a great resource for the XNA developer who wants to learn how to cross over to...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 03/01/2013
Canadian and US Phone Developers can get rewards through DVLUP
Complete challenges related to Windows Phone development, earn points, cash in points for rewards...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/27/2013
Learn to build an HTML5 game and how to migrate HTML5 games to Windows 8
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 from 1-5PM Eastern catch an online Game developer camp for anyone...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/26/2013
Engadget Readers Choice Awards Microsoft Kinect Peripheral of the Year
Last week Engadget announced their Readers Choice awards, no less than three Microsoft products were...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/25/2013
In the Vancouver area? Got a cool app idea to pitch?
The App Pitch Competition is coming to Launch Academy in Vancouver March 13, 2013 The App Pitch is...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/25/2013
Engadget Readers Choice Awards Microsoft Surface RT Tablet of the Year
This week Engadget announced their Readers Choice awards, no less than three Microsoft products were...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/22/2013
Template of the week: Crowd sourcing and location based Windows 8 apps
This template gives you a great start for an app which allows the user to submit location based...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/22/2013
Help protect your grandparents and parents from scammers pretending to be from Microsoft
Please remind your friends and family you will never receive a legitimate call from Microsoft or our...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/20/2013
Build a Windows 8 app with an iPad or Android device. No, I am not kidding!
Microsoft Research has developed an app called TouchDevelop that lets you build Windows 8 apps by...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/19/2013
Template of the week: Windows 8 Location/Finder App
This Windows 8 app template allows you to easily create an app to put data into an app to display on...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/15/2013
The Surface Pro Rap
The Surface Pro was released on Saturday, enjoy this little rap inspired by the Surface Pro...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/15/2013
Video of the Week: How to Port iOS apps to Windows apps
This video talks about how to port iOS apps to Windows Store apps Many of you have built apps for...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/11/2013
The Developer Movement Phone Challenge is live
Attention students! You now have a chance to win 1 of 5 Nokia Lumia 920's...
Author: Mickey MacDonald Date: 02/07/2013
Join the Imagin8 hackathon in Toronto
Three Red Cubes is organizing the first ever Imagin8 Hackathon in Toronto at the Ryerson University...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/06/2013
Come hack with us at Confoo in Montreal
Make Web Not War is having a hackathon at Confoo February 25, 26th in Montreal. You do not need to...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/06/2013
How to build a great Windows 8 app Step 8: Protect the user, tell them what your app can do!
For the security of your users, your app must declare what devices and features it will use. As an...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/04/2013
Video of the week: Skulls of the Shogun game lives on 3 screens and the cloud
Skulls of the Shogun is a fun multi-player game that brings to life the concept of 3 screens and the...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/02/2013
Find quick fixes for your website with modern.ie
Modern.IE is a new tool from Microsoft which will examine your website and recommend code changes...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/31/2013
Building a great app Step 7: Creating your logo
First impressions matter, and your logo creates a first impression both on the Start screen and when...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/29/2013
Video of the week: Cross platform gaming with MonoGame – Draw a Stickman Epic
With XNA not supported on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 a lot of XNA developers are turning to...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/26/2013
App Template of the week: Bringing a Wordpress site to the Windows 8 store
This week’s template allows you to take a website build using Wordpress.org and turn it into a...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/25/2013
Video of the week: Implementing Snap, Filled and Portrait Views in Windows 8 apps
If you are building a Windows 8 app, you must support snap view. This video shows you how to do it...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/19/2013
App Template of the week: Club/Team Windows 8 Template
The following Windows 8 template makes it easy to get started on an app with a blog reader, twitter...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/18/2013
Top 10 reasons to say hi to Microsoft at CUSEC 2013!
Find out what’s happening at the Microsoft booth at CUSEC 2013 and meet the Microsoft Canada Student...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/16/2013
Tips and gotchas for Windows 8 apps: Ankita’s Wordpress app
This series features interviews with student Windows 8 app developers who share the lessons they...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/15/2013
Video of the week: Helping web developers build apps with appMobi
This video shows you how a web developer can use appMobi to build cross-platform apps with HTML and...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/12/2013
Free courseware for professors and instructors from Microsoft
Did you know Microsoft provides free courseware for professors and instructors? The Faculty...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/11/2013
How do I get started building Windows Phone 8 apps?
What do you need to build a Windows Phone 8 app? Windows Phone 8 was released at the end of 2012 and...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/09/2013
Need help on your Windows 8 app? Visit a Windows Store Lab or find online support
The Windows Store App Labs give you access to Windows 8 experts to help you when you get stuck and...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/08/2013
Got an idea for an app? In Toronto area? Enter the App Pitch
The App Pitch Competition is coming to MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, January 29th, 2013 The...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/07/2013
Building a great Windows 8 app Step 6: Which template should you use?
You are about to start coding your Windows 8 project, what template should you start with? This blog...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/03/2013
Building a great Windows 8 app Step 5: Reserve your app name
You can reserve your app name before you publish your app This blog post is part of a series This...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/02/2013
Tips and gotchas for Windows 8 apps: Convertr
This series features interviews with student Windows 8 app developers who share the lessons they...
Author: Ramez Debbas Date: 12/31/2012
Building a great Windows 8 app Step 4: Pick your programming language
What’s the best programming language for your Windows 8 app? .NET, JavaScript with...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 12/20/2012
Canadian Finals announced for Imagine Cup 2013
How will Canadians compete in this year’s Imagine Cup? What prizes can they get? Here’s the scoop...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 12/18/2012
Building a great Windows 8 app Step 3: Installing the SDK & Tools
How do you get the Windows 8 SDK and Visual Studio? What if you have Visual Studio already? This...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 12/14/2012
Building a great Windows 8 app Step 2: Installing Windows 8
Where do I get Windows 8? Can I set up a dual boot? Can I install it in VM? How? This post answers...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 12/13/2012
Building Great apps step 1 : Refining your app idea
An app can’t be great at everything, what will your app be best at? Figure that out you are...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 12/12/2012
Got a WordPress site? Bring it to Windows 8 quickly and easily
This open source template makes it easy for you to take a WordPress site and provide it’s content...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 12/11/2012
Get your Windows 8 app published by December 31st and you could win a Surface
Canadian Developers who register for Developer Movement and publish Windows 8 apps between December...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 12/10/2012
Tips and gotchas for Windows Phone apps:InkSpill
This series features interviews with Windows Phone app developers who share the lessons they learned...
Author: Ramez Debbas Date: 12/04/2012