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Learn how to create a simple arcade game using GameMakerStudio in this video by ArcadeCode from YouTube. In this tutorial, you’ll see how to target HTML5, which should also work with Windows 8/8.1. Resources Download: GameMaker: Studio

OPSWAT today announced the release of their quarterly market share report, which includes analysis of antivirus, peer-to-peer, backup, and antiphishing application usage worldwide. In addition to market share coverage, the report provides a comprehensive breakdown of the most popular products in their respective category and how often certain product features are enabled. The quarterly report […]

H3 Solutions, a leader in SharePoint mobility, today announced the release of Mobile Entrée 5.0, a mobile web app that makes access to the Microsoft collaboration platform more efficient and intuitive for users on the go. The fifth major release of Mobile Entrée is specifically built for running on the SharePoint 2013 on-premise environment. Additional […]

Attempting to increase the number of available apps for their devices, Nokia has unveiled the Asha SDK and hopefully making it more competitive for developers including the low-cost Android smartphones which were released just last Thursday.  of the first version of a software development kit (SDK) for the phone. Nokia needs to attract the legions […]

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that Ubi has worked to develop the software with more than 50 organizations and is now accepting orders for purchase. Turning a wall into a touch-screen computer has many uses and can provide teachers and instructors with an affordable way to easily display their lessons and navigate around with ease. Once […]

By Brian Hitney This post details features used by Earthquake Explorer, a Windows 8 app that displays earthquake information on Bing maps. Earthquake Explorer was based off of the Earthquakes mashup starter kit on github. Creating a mashup is pretty easy in Windows 8 – creating a great one requires a bit more work. In […]

Microsoft’s most senior Windows Azure development executive, Scott Guthrie, in his keynote speech on Tuesday during the Visual Studio Live event, has whole heartedly tried to encourage their MSDN subscribers to take full advantage of and leverage their Windows Azure cloud credits via Microsoft Developer Network subscriptions. Guthrie went on to ask the basic question […]

Microsoft has released an update for their beta of Windows Phone App Studio. It has been designed to improve both the apps overall performance and scalability. The project was launched once the apps popularity increased to over 55,000 active projects of  new app development. The new hosted service launched two weeks ago in a move […]

By Jared Bienz I was recently asked how to add a “Submit a Bug” feature to an app but only make it visible for Beta builds. The code to actually send the bug was quite simple: EmailComposeTask emailComposeTask = new EmailComposeTask(); emailComposeTask.Subject = “My App Feedback”; emailComposeTask.To = “feedback@mydomain.com”; emailComposeTask.Show(); Now the question is where […]

Microsoft has finally begun to move in this direction prompting Google to do the same with their new Key Lime Pie and Android hybrid OS’s. However Apple on the other hand has decided to postpone moving in this direction, at least until the release of the iPad “Maxi” which will be more of a hybrid […]

By Bob Tabor, LearnVisualStudio.NET Learn about XAML in this video from Microsoft’s Channel 9. You’ll see how XAML can make coding easier than C#, you’ll learn about the purpose of XAML, and you’ll learn about some of the special features. Original Video on Channel9: See this video on Channel9 Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdf  

Beginning at 12:00 a.m. on October 18 in New Zealand, or 4:00 a.m. October 17 in Redmond, Washington, Windows 8.1 will begin downloading onto computers around the world as a free update for consumers currently on the less then desired Windows 8 OS via the Windows online Store. The update will also be available at […]