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Surface Pro 3 + Adobe Photoshop CC 2014
The past two days, I have had an amazing time helping attendees at the Adobe MAX conference setup their new Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablets. For most of the attendees that I had met, this was their...
View ArticlePausing Video when a Companion Ad is Clicked
When building a media app on Windows Phone 8.1, it is very popular for developers to use the Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework, and open source media player framework for both Windows and...
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Xaml Generator – a New App for Office
A few years ago I build and shared the source code for a Word to Xaml Converter, a Word 2007 add-in that developers could use to convert Microsoft Office Word documents to Xaml for WPF and Silverlight...
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Using the Multilingual App Toolkit with WPF Applications
One of the toolkits available to app developers enabling them to reach new audiences is the Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT). Using this toolkit, you can easily add multiple language support to Store...
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APIs as Artistic Expression: the Neon API
Musicians take care to craft so many of the ways that they express themselves beyond the music that they release: their outfits, their videos, album covers, the typography used in the liner notes, the...
View ArticleHaving Fun with the Neon API
One of the exciting things that got to do at South by Southwest last month in Austin was help with a hackathon where developers got to experiment with building new music apps and experiences. As part...
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3D Printing in Windows 10
If you know me, you know that I have always been interested in design tools: devices and processes that aid in the creative design process. Today I work for a company, Microsoft, that makes both a...
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Watercoloring, 3D Printing, CAD, Hour of Code, Windows Apps, and The Creative...
If you know me, you know that I like creating stuff and the creative process. Having studied architecture and then design tool development, I have added many tools over the years to my creative...
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Console Ouptut: my New Debugging and Testing tool for Windows
I have been working with a partner who wanted to get standard console output from a UWP app for debugging and testing purposes. Of course the easiest way get debugging output is by attaching a...
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Using the InkToolbar with Custom Dry Ink in Windows Anniversary Edition
I have been experimenting with the new InkToolbar control in the new Windows Anniversary Update and wanted to walk through a common scenario for using the InkToolbar with “Custom Dry Ink”. The...
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