Canadian Developer Connection
The latest developer news and events in Canada!
Let us take you from complete beginner to professional web developer
It can be difficult to connect the dots from beginner programmer to understanding the architecture...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/25/2015
Internet if Things: How to create a simple Web server (part 2)
Last time I promised to show how to create a simple Web server on Galileo board. Since we have...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 02/24/2015
Quels langages choisir pour mon projet d’applications universelles Windows?
Une question qui revient assez souvent. Fun Fact : Pendant que je rédigeais ce billet au café du...
Author: Christian Hissibini (MVP) Date: 02/23/2015
How to choose the right programming languages for my Universal Windows app project?
A question that comes up quite often. Fun fact: While I was writing this post at the university...
Author: Christian Hissibini (MVP) Date: 02/23/2015
Azure Data Services: See how to share a file using Azure File Storage (Part 6)
Hello and welcome to this tutorial series of Azure Data Services. Through the course of this...
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 02/19/2015
Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Cookie Authentication
The Evolving ASP.NET Apps series + bonus content is published as a book and is available for...
Author: David Paquette (MVP) Date: 02/18/2015
Using Bower with Visual Studio
You may have heard that with ASP.NET 5 and Visual Studio 2015, Microsoft will be using Bower as a...
Author: David Paquette (MVP) Date: 02/17/2015
Visual Studio Time Saver–How can YOU request features in Visual Studio?
Quick tips to make you more efficient in Visual Studio. Today’s tip: How can you request a feature...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/16/2015
Imagine Cup: Achievement Unlocked! TAGStudios gets Honorable Mention in the Games Category
Imagine Cup 2015 has been announced. If you are a Canadian Student and not participating in the...
Author: Mickey MacDonald Date: 02/13/2015
Internet of Things: How to create a simple Web server (part 1)
Today you can find many different boards in the market which have Ethernet socket or support...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 02/13/2015
Imagine Cup: Team WalkSafe walked to an Honorable Mention in the Innovation Category!
Imagine Cup 2015 has been announced. If you are a Canadian Student and not participating in the...
Author: Rami Sayar Date: 02/12/2015
Microsoft Research makes Touch Develop open source
Touch Develop is a tool developed by Microsoft Research that allows developers to build mobile apps,...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/11/2015
Imagine Cup: How did Haters Hater win an Honorable Mention in the World Citizenship category?
Imagine Cup 2015 has been announced. If you are a Canadian Student and not participating in the...
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 02/10/2015
A Lap Around Azure Websites – All the Questions and Links From the Talk
Not too long ago, Jon Galloway and Cory Fowler presented a live “Lap Around Azure Websites” on...
Author: James Chambers (MVP) Date: 02/09/2015
To the Power of 10
I’m going to //Build/ 2015 in April. I couldn’t be more excited. If you have ever...
Author: Mark B Schramm (MVP) Date: 02/07/2015
How I Decide which Web Front-End Framework to Use
It almost seems like every other week there is a new MVC web front-end framework. The front-end dev...
Author: Rami Sayar Date: 02/06/2015
IoT: How to integrate two boards
In the previous posts I described some features of Galileo 2 board but there are still some...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 02/06/2015
Azure Data Services: Designing a communication strategy using Storage Queues (Part 5)
Hello and welcome to this tutorial series of Azure Data Services. Through the course of this...
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 02/05/2015
Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Cross Site Scripting
Check out the other posts in this series here. One of the most common exploits on the web is cross...
Author: Simon Timms (MVP) Date: 02/04/2015
The story behind the Microsoft Super Bowl 2015 commercials
Microsoft ran two inspiring commercials in the SuperBowl, in this post you can watch the ads and...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 02/02/2015
My first experience with 3D printer
Last week, thanks to BizSpark program, finally, we got a 3D printer for the Launch Academy. Since I...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 01/30/2015
Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Validating Redirects and Forwards
Check out the other posts in this series here. In today's post on improving the security of our...
Author: David Paquette (MVP) Date: 01/29/2015
Azure Data Services: NoSQL Table Storage (Part 4)
Hello and welcome to this tutorial series of Azure Data Services. Through the course of this...
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 01/29/2015
Be More, Do More with Developer Movement
If you like to play with code, you'll want to read on. Join Developer Movement, Microsoft Canada's...
Author: peaceloveharmony@live.ca Date: 01/28/2015
Fifty ways to use your Azure
As I sat staring at a slide listing all the different uses for Azure, and thought how boring it is...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/26/2015
Visual Studio Time Saver–the layout you want when you want it
Quick tips to make you more efficient in Visual Studio. Today’s tip: moving from a laptop to a...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/26/2015
Let the pixel’s fly! Imagine Cup 2015 games competition is here
It’s that time again! Imagine Cup 2015 has been announced. If you’re a student game developer in...
Author: Mickey MacDonald Date: 01/23/2015
Internet of Things: What about C# there?
In my post about Galileo we used C++ language in order to build some code. But what about C# and is...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 01/23/2015
Our industry does not respect tradition, it only respects innovation: Imagine Cup Canada Announced!
Imagine Cup 2015 has been announced. If you are a Canadian Student and not participating in the...
Author: Rami Sayar Date: 01/22/2015
How to make a brilliant CV thanks to Imagine Cup
Two days ago we announced deadlines and submission requirements for Canadian Imagine Cup finals. And...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 01/21/2015
Heal the World - Make it a better place: Imagine Cup Announced!
Imagine Cup 2015 has been announced. If you are a Canadian Student and not participating in the...
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 01/20/2015
Everything You Need to Have a Rocking Node IDE on Windows for Free
If you are a developer with a background in using big integrated development environments like...
Author: Rami Sayar Date: 01/20/2015
Imagine Cup–Who will represent Canada at World Finals in Seattle this year?
The deadlines and submission requirements for Canadian Imagine Cup Finals have been announced. Which...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/19/2015
Have all the tools of a first class startup in 10 min
Guest post by MVP Vincent Biret Through my career I had the chance to be involved in...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 01/16/2015
Azure services and Internet of Things
I just finished several posts about Galileo board for beginners. In those posts I showed how to...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 01/16/2015
Azure Data Services: SQL in the Cloud (Part 2)
Hello and welcome to this tutorial series of Azure Data Services. Through the course of this...
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 01/15/2015
Evolving ASP.NET Applications–SQL Injection
In the previous installment of this series we took a look at the various security issues present in...
Author: Simon Timms (MVP) Date: 01/13/2015
Visual Studio Time Saver - How can I keep track of unfinished code?
Quick tips to make you more efficient in Visual Studio. Today’s tip: tracking your to do list of...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 01/12/2015
Azure Mobile Services: The story of the real application
Three years ago I participated in a project, which required to send notifications to a sport portal...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 01/09/2015
Part 1: An Introduction to Azure Data Services
Hello and welcome to this new tutorial series of Azure Data Services. Through the course of this...
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 01/08/2015