Jim Galasyn's Learning Curve
Adventures in developer learning.
Believe it or not, this year is the 20-year anniversary of Visual Studio, and Visual Studio 2017...
Date: 02/10/2017
Get it here. Program Manager Carmen Forsmann explains: Project Rome is a platform for creating...
Date: 02/09/2017
Ever wondered if Microsoft has a blockchain solution? Wonder no more, and find out how it works by...
Date: 01/19/2017
Get it here: Visual Studio “15” Preview 5. VS “15” is cooking along at a good pace, and the latest...
Date: 10/10/2016
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
At long last. Now you can convert your Windows desktop applications (Win32, WPF, etc.) to install as...
Date: 09/15/2016
By Alissa Wolken8 September 2016 (Woodland Park Zoo) – Coders and technology experts from the...
Date: 09/14/2016
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
Download: Node.js Tools 1.2. The Visual Studio Engineering Team has announced the latest version of...
Date: 08/01/2016
If you’re on Android or iOS, you may have noticed that Outlook has a neat feature, named “Focused...
Date: 07/29/2016
Alison Cunard announces the Microsoft Professional Degree (MPD) program, which she describes like...
Date: 07/13/2016
Before I moved to DX, I worked on a great team of content developers, and we created the FamilyNotes...
Date: 07/11/2016
Here’s the most exciting news in cross-platform development since Microsoft acquired Xamarin: .NET...
Date: 07/05/2016
Enroll here: Introduction to DevOps. You may have heard that the cool kids are adopting a new...
Date: 07/01/2016
Download: Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. New and improved features: Tools for Apache Cordova Developer...
Date: 06/30/2016
At least, if you live in Denver, Seattle, or Portland. The famous data-visualization guru is...
Date: 06/28/2016
Xamarin is Microsoft’s most exciting acquisition since Skype and Acompli. (Okay, LinkedIn is pretty...
Date: 06/27/2016
Remote Desktop may be my favorite Windows Store app, and now it’s generally available for Windows 10...
Date: 06/23/2016
Our team wanted to demonstrate some of the “More Personal Computing” features – what the rest of the...
Date: 06/16/2016
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
Download here. Remember that this is a CTP and isn’t meant for production environments; please...
Date: 06/05/2014
Matt Sandy dishes on DirectX 12. It’s gonna rock. DirectX 12 introduces the next version of...
Date: 03/21/2014
Thomas Petchel knocked this out in his spare time: While working on the Hilo C++ project, I really...
Date: 12/16/2013
Longtime readers know that I have great enthusiasm for the Kinect sensor as a revolutionary NUI...
Date: 11/27/2013
Get them here. Are you creating a game for the Windows Store? If you’re looking for...
Date: 11/25/2013
Sanjeev Dwivedi posts the details: Today, we are excited to announce that on Windows Store apps and...
Date: 11/14/2013
Brian Rockwell presents a quick overview showing how to align a device’s sensors with your app’s...
Date: 11/12/2013
If you have an app in the Windows Store already, and you used the Split App (XAML) template as the...
Date: 10/21/2013
Closed now, but still some interesting stuff in here: Hello everyone! We’re a group of engineers...
Date: 10/17/2013
With today’s announcement of Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 availability, the Windows Store is...
Date: 10/17/2013
Eric Schmidt has the lowdown on navigating your Windows Store apps using JavaScript to the release...
Date: 10/08/2013
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
Longtime readers know that I’ve been a big supporter of Emotiv’s EPOC neuroheadset from the...
Date: 09/03/2013
Previously: Notes on porting to DirectX 11.1 from earlier versions A lot changed between DX11 and...
Date: 08/16/2013
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
Koen Zwikstra at First Floor Software has published a diff report of the Windows 8 and Windows 8.1...
Date: 07/08/2013
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
The following new articles for iOS developers are live on the Windows Store apps Dev Center: Windows...
Date: 06/27/2013
Here: Get the update UPDATE: Download the ISO Get Visual Studio 2013 preview too. Details...
Date: 06/26/2013
One of the projects that your truly has been working on this year is a series of quick video...
Date: 06/20/2013
Kraig Brockschmidt has a nice intro to the async model for Windows Store apps, focusing on...
Date: 06/12/2013
Antoine Leblond has a quick summary of new features in Windows 8.1 (aka Windows Blue): Continuing...
Date: 05/30/2013
Ross Heise has a quick walkthrough on adding geolocation to your Windows store Apps. Here’s a bit of...
Date: 05/22/2013
Check it out here. It’s much more colorful and engaging, and hopefully it’s easier to find the...
Date: 05/15/2013