Month: August 2017

Sky Yi didn’t expect to get a response when he wrote a letter to Microsoft President Brad Smith last spring. Sky penned it as part of an assignment from math teacher Ken Jordan, who asked his students at Silverland Middle School in Fernley, Nevada, to write letters to the businesses that they like. “I know…

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The ‘One Dev Question with Raymond Chen’ video series is part of the One Dev Minute channel.  In this series, longtime Microsoft developer and semi-official Windows historian Raymond Chen covers a series of questions about Microsoft Windows develo… Continue reading One Dev Question with Raymond Chen – Why Does Ctrl+F in Outlook mean ‘Forward’ instead of ‘Find’?→

We’re excited to finally open the gates to the Exiled Lands for Xbox One gamers! Conan Exiles is an open-world survival game that launched into Early Access on PC earlier this year. The version we’re now bringing to Xbox One benefits from months of content additions, new features, improvements, and enhancements. Today, in addition to bringing the game to Xbox One for the first time, we have also released a massive expansion update: The Frozen North. The expansion increases the game world by 70% and introduces a cold, snowy region to the north, with hundreds of new items, two new… Continue reading Conan Exiles Available Now in Xbox Game Preview→

Welcome! This is the first chapter in Making mixed reality, a series celebrating the passionate community creating apps and experiences with Windows Mixed Reality. Here, developers, designers, artists (and more!) share how and why they got started, as well as their latest tips. We hope this series inspires you to join the community and get building! Continue reading Making mixed reality: a conversation with Lucas Rizzotto→

In this episode Chris Risner and Thiago Almeida are joined by Bahram Banisadr, Program Manager focusing on Event Grid.  Event Grid is a new service which enables developers to build event based programming.  Events could b… Continue reading Episode 233: Azure Event Grid with Bahram Banisadr | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show→

The MVP Show never disappoints. Each episode, Senior Technical Evangelist Seth Juarez takes us to another corner of the globe to meet an MVP on the cutting-edge, and plunge into the technology that drives them. Today, we’re headed to the Gold Coast in Australia! In this episode, Seth hangs out with Visual Studio and Development… Continue reading The MVP Show In Australia: An Interview With MVP Troy Hunt→

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 look at how to spice up existing Xamarin.Forms contro… Continue reading Snack Pack 18: Using Effects in Xamarin.Forms | The Xamarin Show→

In this episode of the MVP Show, we are here in Gold Coast, Australia, to meet with Troy Hunt, a well-known security expert, and meet the dude that made HaveIBeenPwned.com. Troy has been an MVP specializing in Visual Studio and development technologies… Continue reading Episode 4: Australia – Interview with Troy Hunt | The MVP Show→