A Minimal MVVM UWP App
With the introduction of Win 10 and Universal Windows apps I wanted to try out some of the new XAML features like compile-time binding with x:Bind. I started by looking for a very simple Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sample that showed how to build an MVVM app with create, read,…
Build 2015 and Video Effects
We’re keeping the coding going with this next post in the series of technical articles following the Build 2015 conference. This post is dedicated to the new video functionality provided in Windows 10. Increasingly, we’re hearing from developers the importance of adding improved user experiences for their apps. Those experiences…
Build 2015 and Audio Effects
We’re keeping the coding going with this third post in the series of technical articles following the Build 2015 conference. This post shows you how it is so much easier now to develop apps that have fantastic, responsive audio. The next one will focus on video. Having great audio and…
Build 2015 and Vorlon.js
As promised, here is the second in the series of technical articles following the Build 2015 conference. This post is dedicated to Vorlon.js. So what is Vorlon? It is a new, open source, extensible, browser-agnostic tool for remotely debugging your JavaScript all powered by node.JS and socket.io. Yep – imagine…
Build 2015 and ManifoldJS
I just walked offstage after another amazing build keynote. There is so much new technology that can help you build great next-generation applications. But there’s just too much to drill into in one blog post. So we take a look at each major coding demo in a series of posts…
Taking the Web App Template Cross-Platform
If you are a Web developer and are thinking about taking the jump to mobile apps, the Web App Template (WAT) is an awesome way to get started. Creating mobile apps doesn’t get much easier than this, and the approach is lined up with the approach a lot of…
Creating scalable web apps with the Service Gateway
Earlier this year we released the Service Gateway, a tool that simplifies the process of building an internet-ready web site or mobile service. If this is your first time reading about Service Gateway then check out my initial post from a few months ago. The nut of it is that…
STEM Labs: A firsthand look at the life of a software developer
Ever since Microsoft DX started hosting hackfests last this year, we’ve seen steady growth in the level of participation. Rarely does a week go by that we don’t have at least one hackfest going on in Redmond or elsewhere. Last week there were three going on, and this week I’m…
Building a massively-multiplayer game on Microsoft Azure
Every now and again, a really intriguing opportunity comes along that’s just impossible to resist. Age of Ascents is one such case. In the spring of 2013, Illyriad, a small UK games company with an existing massively-multiplayer real-time strategy game, approached Microsoft and said: “We want to build a…