Canadian Developer Connection
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Yoooman! 5 Awesome Yeoman Generators You Should Use Now (Part 3)
This tutorial series will teach you the basics of Yeoman; how to set it up on Windows, how to use...
Author: Rami Sayar Date: 01/07/2015
Taking your Game Dev skills to the next level
If you are interested in ‘AAA’ game design there is one set of skills that is critical, C++...
Author: Mickey MacDonald Date: 01/06/2015
Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Security
The Evolving ASP.NET Apps series + bonus content is being published as a book. Buy it here. Between...
Author: Simon Timms (MVP) Date: 01/02/2015
Turns Out, Our Children are Pretty Darn Smart
An Hour of Code Last time out I talked about going out to my daughter’s former elementary school to...
Author: Mark B Schramm (MVP) Date: 12/29/2014
Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 6)
Today it’s my last post about Galileo board for beginners. So I decided to test some features,...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 12/19/2014
Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites–Part 4
This is a bonus post continuing the 3-part series on setting up the Ghost 0.5.x working from source...
Author: David Wesst (MVP) Date: 12/16/2014
Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites–Part 3
This is part 3 of 3 of a blog series where David Wesst takes you through getting Ghost 0.5.x working...
Author: David Wesst (MVP) Date: 12/09/2014
TIP: Don’t Touch! Well okay go ahead…Touch Support in Visual Studio 2015
Today’s tip shows you the touch support added to the code editor in Visual Studio 2015 We recently...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 12/08/2014
Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 5)
When you are planning to build your own device you should think about power. In some cases it’s OK...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 12/05/2014
Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites–Part 2
This is part 1 of 3 of a blog series where David Wesst takes you through getting Ghost 0.5.x working...
Author: David Wesst (MVP) Date: 12/04/2014
Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites
This is part 1 of 3 of a blog series where David Wesst takes you through getting Ghost 0.5.x working...
Author: David Wesst (MVP) Date: 12/02/2014
Yoooman! Generating a Backbone.js Project with Yeoman (Part 2)
This tutorial series will teach you the basics of Yeoman; how to set it up on Windows, how to use...
Author: Rami Sayar Date: 12/01/2014
When One Hour Means So Much More
In two weeks, December 8th to the 14th, 2014, https://code.org, in partnership with technology...
Author: Mark B Schramm (MVP) Date: 11/29/2014
Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 4)
Today I am going to continue my series about Galileo 2 board for beginners and I will discuss analog...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 11/28/2014
The Power of Speech in Your Windows Phone 8.1 Apps–Speech Recognition
Previous posts in this series: The Power of Speech in Your Windows Phone 8.1 Apps The Power of...
Author: Lori Lalonde (MVP) Date: 11/25/2014
Yoooman! Getting Started with Yeoman (Part 1)
This tutorial series will teach you the basics of Yeoman; how to set it up on Windows, how to use...
Author: Rami Sayar Date: 11/24/2014
Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo (part 3)
In the previous post we developed our first device based on digital outputs from Galileo board....
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 11/21/2014
Bringing Your Core Business Applications to SharePoint
Guest post from MVP Vincent Biret Introduction It has been a long time question: should we or not...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 11/20/2014
Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Updating jQuery
This post is a continuation of the Evolving ASP.NET series: Evolving ASP.NET Apps - Introduction...
Author: Simon Timms (MVP) Date: 11/20/2014
Azure Fridays - A Powershell script to Download RSS Videos
Azure Fridays If you are like me then time is a very precious and limited commodity. Also we both...
Author: Marc Gagné Date: 11/18/2014
Driving the Value of the Internet of Things
When I saw this video, my first reaction was “Wow.. that’s looks so futuristic!” and while it may be...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 11/17/2014
How can you help the next generation discover the power of code?
In this post I’ll introduce a great tool called touchdevelop and some content you can use to...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 11/17/2014
TIP: How to get rid of /the/really/long/file/path/that/shows/up/in/searchresults
Quick tips to make you more efficient in Visual Studio Customizing search output in Visual Studio...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 11/17/2014
Building a Visual Studio Extension with Roslyn
In this guest post, Josh and Amadeus the co-founders of Code Connect, an Ontario based technology...
Author: Mickey MacDonald Date: 11/14/2014
Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 2)
In the previous article we discussed how to setup your first Galileo board and showed some stuff...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 11/14/2014
Kinect for Windows Shines at Hack Vancouver
Last weekend I had the pleasure of joining Ben Lower and his Kinect team at BCIT in Burnaby, BC for...
Author: peaceloveharmony@live.ca Date: 11/13/2014
Can I Deploy to Azure with an Open Source Language?
Yes! You can deploy to Azure using the Azure API and SDK for your favorite open source language. In...
Author: Rami Sayar Date: 11/12/2014
Exploring Future Tools: Using .NET Native for Increasing Windows Store App Performance
Traditionally, C# and VB developers enjoy the comfort and productivity of desktop application...
Author: Andrei Marukovich (MVP) Date: 11/10/2014
Hacking the North with Microsoft Azure
A short time ago Microsoft Canada sponsored an Azure API Challenge at the Hack The North...
Author: Mickey MacDonald Date: 11/10/2014
IDE Eye Test: Is your Dev IDE better, worse or about the same?
What development environment have you used? I go way back and got started programming with...
Author: Mark B Schramm (MVP) Date: 11/07/2014
Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 1)
I didn’t feel so excited since that time, when I bought my first PC – ZX Spectrum. It...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 11/07/2014
Kinect With Me Part 3 - Creating a Gesture-Controlled App in Just Three Steps
This Kinect for Windows v2 tutorial series will help you build an interactive Kinect app using...
Author: peaceloveharmony@live.ca Date: 11/06/2014
Exploring Future Tools: Roslyn, Next Generation Open-Source C# Compiler
The next major version of Visual Studio, currently known as Visual Studio “14”, will bring various...
Author: Andrei Marukovich (MVP) Date: 11/04/2014
Visual Studio Time Saver: Dude where’s my files?
Quick tips to make you more efficient in Visual Studio By default, the file path for Visual Studio...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 11/03/2014
MonoGame for the XNA Developer (#Gamedev w/ @ScruffyFurn)
When XNA was put into “stasis” a huge hole was created in the game development tool...
Author: Mickey MacDonald Date: 10/31/2014
Its all about being Open!
Why Open? One of the coolest things to happen at Microsoft is embracing and supporting Openness....
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 10/31/2014
Kinect With Me Part 2 - Tracking Bodies and Overlaying Shapes on Infrared Data
This Kinect for Windows v2 tutorial series will help you build an interactive Kinect app using...
Author: peaceloveharmony@live.ca Date: 10/31/2014
Getting rolling with Kinect for Windows v2 SDK
Developer Louis St-Amour from York University digs into the Kinect for Windows v2 SDK and shares a...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 10/29/2014
BREAKPOINT: Microsoft Azure – A Perfect Server-Side Solution for Mobile Apps
One of the challenges developers face is finding the right platform to host backend services for...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 10/29/2014
The Power of Speech in Your Windows Phone 8.1 Apps - Text-to-Speech
If you’ve read the first post in the series, you are well versed in the ways of using voice commands...
Author: Lori Lalonde (MVP) Date: 10/28/2014
Part 6: Get started with Python: Build your first Django Application in PTVS
This is a tutorial series which will teach you how to code in Python. We will start with the...
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 10/27/2014