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#Humor – It’s all about relationships

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Oct 29, 2017
#Opinion – Bye #Kinect, thanks!

Today I start without a [Hello!], because based on some news today it should be a sad day. I summarize it in a simple line Microsoft has decided to discontinue the manufacture of Kinect. Matthew Lapsen (Xbox Devices Marketing Manager) together with Alex Kipman have made this news to the public, so that’s it. Several — read more

Oct 26, 2017
#Windows10 – Disable the #SurfaceDial global menu in a UWP App

Hello! Today’s post is a fast one, for a specific scenario: In a Universal Windows Platform App, we must define whether to show or hide the menus when working with a Surface Dial. To do this, we must access the general configuration of Surface Dial using RadialControllerConfiguration. The following class shows an example of a — read more

Oct 25, 2017
#Windows10 – Customizing the default menu items in #SurfaceDial

Hello! I continue with the series of posts on work with Surface Dial. In the previous post I described how to create a menu with 3 options that are activated in the Surface Dial. If our App needs several menus, one of the options that we may need to take into account is to disable — read more

Oct 24, 2017
#Humor – Best #WindowsUpdate Meme ever …

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Oct 22, 2017
#PowerBI – Sending information to Streaming Datasets from a UWP App with C#

Hello! Today the post is a simple reminder of a piece of code I’ve written from scratch several times, and that’s it, I’m writing this down here! The scenario is simple: In a PowerBI Instance I have a pair of Streaming Datasets and I want to send information to them from a Windows Store App. — read more

Oct 19, 2017
#Podcast – NTN 39 – Overview of Agile today, #Agiles2017 experience and more …

Hello! Finally an Agile episode, which I think I owed a long time ago. In this episode with the collaboration of Ernesto Cardenas (@fisica3). Ernesto helps me to understand the current state of agility (a sensitive issue) and then we move on to his experience during the Agiles 2017 event. If you do not know — read more

Oct 18, 2017
#Windows10 – Working with Multiple Menus with #SurfaceDial in a UWP View

Hello! Today I follow the example of maps and Surface Dial in a UWP App. In today’s scenario, I will add a new functionality to the application with the map Use the Surface Dial spin to control the map zoom Use the Surface Dial spin to rotate the current view on the map Disable Surface — read more

Oct 17, 2017
#Event – Materials used during the #MSPSummit 2017 in the #CognitiveServices session

Hello! Last Saturday the Microsoft Canada team invited me to give a session on Cognitive Services for a group of Microsoft Student Partners during the MSP Summit 2017. I was lucky to give the session with Sabrina (@sabrina_smai) and as always, it was a great moment. We end with an example where Hololens used some — read more

Oct 16, 2017
#Humor – A dialog between two geniuses

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Oct 15, 2017
#Windows10 – Rotating maps with C# and #SurfaceDial in UWP Apps

Hello! In order to talk a little about how to create advanced menus for the Surface Dial, I will resume my view with a map and add an extra feature to this view: Use the Surface Dial spin to control the map zoom Use the Surface Dial spin to rotate the current view on the — read more

Oct 13, 2017
#Windows10 – 2 lines of C# code to handle maps using a #SurfaceDial

Hello! Today’s post will also describe an scenario on how to use a Surface Dial in a UWP App. In this case, in a view with a Map control. The first scenario to work is simple, control the zoom of the map display with the spin of the Surface Dial. Something similar to the following — read more

Oct 12, 2017
#Windows10 – Controlling a MediaPlayer Element with #SurfaceDial in a Windows Store App

Hello! Following yesterday’s example on how to use the new Surface Dial in a Windows Store App, today I’ll share how to integrate some of this device capabilities into a page with a Media Player Element. I have not put down much of imagination for this example, I just want to have 2 basic features — read more

Oct 10, 2017
#Windows10 – Kind of a Hello World with a #SurfaceDial in a Windows Store App

Hello! During these days a Surface Studio has fallen into my hands (Wow!). The truth is that after trying it in Microsoft offices, now that I’m really giving it work, it’s an awesome device. One of the things I wanted to try was the Surface Dial, not just to use it in Design or Drawing — read more

Oct 9, 2017
#Humor – The truth about #FrontEnd vs #BackEnd developers

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Oct 8, 2017
#Flow – Using configuration information from an App using #OneDrive, #Excel, Microsoft Flow and HTTP Requests

Hi! It is no news that Developers and Business Users speak different languages. This is why, sometimes when I ask a business User to update a configuration file, it usually does not ends well. It happened to me when sharing [.json], [.config], or [.xml] files, these users do not know which tool to use — read more

Oct 6, 2017
#PowerShell – Download all MS Ignite videos and slides in a single click (thanks @mderooij!)

Hi ! Last week I shared a powershell script created by Jon Galloway to download videosn from Channel 9. So, Microsoft Ignite is finished, and someone pick the idea and created a similar one which also includes video and slides download features. We need to thanks to Michel de Rooij (@mderooij), who is the author — read more

Oct 5, 2017
#Podcast – NTN 38 – What’s new on #Xamarin and how to create an App to help during natural disasters

Hi ! This episode was a special one. We started talking about Xamarin (this guys really knows their stuff!) and at the middle of the episode Humberto Jaimes (@hjaimesdev), Jose Saturnino Pimentel (@saturpimentel) and Roberto Cervantes (@rcervantesdev) changed the topic about Xamarin and … ok you must better listen to it. As always, we — read more

Oct 3, 2017
#Windows10 – How to add a Windows Store App to Windows 10 Start up

Hi! Today’s post is a permanent note on how to add a Windows Store App into Windows 10 start up. It’s an easy task, but I always forgot how to do this. 1st step is to access to the Apps Folder (classic and Windows Store Apps) using a shell command [Shell:AppsFolder] For this sample, I’ll — read more

Oct 2, 2017
#Humor – How to avoid drones crash into each other

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Oct 1, 2017