Month: June 2017

The MVP Show is at it again. It’s back with another great episode! Senior Technical Evangelist Seth Juarez has been traveling the world to meet with members of the MVP community, and learn about the cutting-edge technology that inspires them. This time Seth heads to Cambridge, England to meet with Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP Evelina Gabasova – she’s a… Continue reading The MVP Show At Cambridge University: An Interview With MVP Evelina Gabasova→

In this episode, Robert is joined by Phil Japikse, who explores how in modern development practices, unit testing is part of the development process, not a chore to be tackled after you write your code.Phil spends most of the time on Test Driven Develo… Continue reading Modern Dev Practices: Unit Testing | Visual Studio Toolbox→

Welcome to The Xamarin Show Snack Pack Edition. A Snack Pack is bite sized episode that is focused on a specific topic and covered in just a few minutes. Today, we take a look at how to manage and upgrade the ever so important Android Su… Continue reading Snack Pack 14: Upgrading Android Support Libraries | The Xamarin Show→

In this episode of the MVP Show, we head to Cambridge, England, to visit post-doctoral researcher at MRC Cancer Unit, at the University of Cambridge, speaker and Microsoft MVP, Evelina Gabasova. We also had the chance to explore Cambridge, a unive… Continue reading Episode 3: England – Interview with Evelina Gabasova | The MVP Show→

Enter the ancient arenas of Verdia, where champions have come to test their mettle for thousands of years. In Battlerite, we created a rich and mysterious world with different races, cultures and gods. The champions are the superstars of this world, each with his or her own background, motivations, and aspirations. This past E3, Microsoft, together with Stunlock Studios, revealed the action-packed arena brawler Battlerite will be coming to Xbox One in 2018. In Battlerite, each game is an adrenaline rush — imagine the intense team fights from a MOBA mashed with a skillshot action game with full control over… Continue reading Arena Brawler Battlerite Coming to Xbox One and Windows 10 in 2018→

Hello, fellow gamers. Welcome to the first Xbox Game Pass monthly update! As you’re aware, Xbox Game Pass launched on June 1, a new digital gaming subscription service that gives you unlimited access to over 100 Xbox One and Xbox 360 backward compatible games for just $9.99 USD per month. At Xbox Game Pass, we believe more is better, and that there should always be something new to play. Starting on July 1, even more great games are coming to Xbox Game Pass for you to enjoy. And don’t forget, if you haven’t tried Xbox Game Pass yet, you can… Continue reading Dead Island, F1 2015, Resident Evil 6 and More Enter Xbox Game Pass on July 1→

It’s barely been a month since we highlighted the 1.0 release of the Windows Template Studio, WTS FTW 10T (Windows Template Studio For The Windows 10 Template), and in that time, Clint, Micheal and you, the community, have been working hard on improving and extending it.

Last week, WTS 1.1 was released!

Windows Template Studio 1.1 released!

We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.1. In partnership with the community, we’ve been cranking out and iterating new features and functionality. We’re always looking for additional people to help out and if you’re interested, please head to our GitHub at https://aka.ms/wts.

How to get the update:

There are two paths to update to the newest build.

• Already installed: Visual Studio should auto update the extension. To force an update, Go to Tools->Extensions and Updates.  Then go to Update expander on the left and you should see Windows Template Studio in there and click “Update.”
• Not installed: Head to https://aka.ms/wtsinstall, click “download” and double click the VSIX installer.

Improvements to the Wizard:

• Page Reordering
• The first page doesn’t have to be the Blank page
• Renaming of pages and background tasks
• Offline improvements
• Initial work for supporting localization
• Code analysis was added

Page updates:

• Grid page added
• Chart page added
• Media/Video page added
• Web View page has been enhanced

Feature updates:

• Store SDK Notifications added
• SettingStorage now has a binary save option (not just string based)

Template improvements:

• Navigation panel moved to UWP Community Toolkit
• Styling adjustments
• ResourceLoader performance improvement

For a full list of issues fixed in the 1.1 release, head over to Github.

What else is cooking for next versions?

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Best part? The team not only supports community PR’s, they encourage it! Heck, they love it! It’s you that is going to make this project awesome. To help out, head over to https://aka.ms/wts.

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Andrew Parsons joins the show to talk about a new competition being launched by Microsoft, called Dream.Build.Play. Dream.Build.Play is a game development competition that is open to all developers, working solo or in teams of up to seven. Create … Continue reading Introducing the Dream.Build.Play Game Developer Competition | .GAME→