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#WINDOWS10 – #IoT Contest, amazing prices like a trip to NY or Rome to Maker Faire
Hola! Let’s move on with some more news for Windows IoT Core. Todays is a nice one, a IoT contests with focus on Home Automation solutions with Windows 10 and Raspberry Pi 2. You can check out the main rules in the link below, I really like the prices, like the invitation to go to… — read more
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#VS2015 – Observer Pattern the easy way with #NuGet and #CSharp 6 features
Hola! These days I’m dealing with a Winforms app who needs tons of love (Thanks Tori!). I’m slowly addidng some stuff like IoC, and I get to a point where I need to upgrade the current implementation of Observer for a better one. Lucky for us, in Net Framework 4.0 the MS team added the cool IObserver<T> interface, however there is some code… — read more
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#WINDOWS10 – W10 #IoT Core update and new deploy process
Hola! New post for Windows 10 and Raspberry Pi 2 series 1. Hardware and software 2. Boot from SD card in the device (obsolete) 3. Hello World mode! 4. Visual Studio deployment process and Web Management app 5. Hello Blinky !!! 6. Some admin tasks, like change password and change name 7. List of connected… — read more
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#VS2015 – #TFS2015 is here and a bonus with a nice set of extensions (#Git included!)
Hola! Today is Extensions Friday, So, because yesterday was the official release of Team Foundation Server 2015, today I’ll suggest a couple of extensions I use a lot and also some others very cool. TFS Source Control History Visualization This one is a cool one. If you need a graphical representation of the history of your elements,… — read more
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#WINDOWS10 – HowTo: Use #Xbox app to perform #ScreenRecording
Hola! In my yesterday’s post, I wrote about the set of tools I use to make some screen capture: SnagIt and Camtasia. Mostly Camtasia for screen recording, because I can encode the final video in animated GIFs format which is very useful for my blog. Is a pity that we don’t have a tool in… — read more
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#VS2015 – Roaming Extension Manager, keep VS extensions sync between different devices
Hola! Today in “Extensions Friday” I’ll try to answer a question someone ask me in twitter long time ago: Do you know a way to sync the installed extensions in Visual Studio between different devices? The answer was NO. However today, I was installing Visual Studio 2015 and I found this extension which try to… — read more
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#VS2015 – C# 6, nameof operator to get variables, types or members names
Hola! Sometime ago I wrote about the new feature in C# 6 which allow us to use String Interpolation instead of String.Format(). In C# 6 we also found a new cool operator: nameof. This new operator allows us to get in string the name of a variable, or a type or a member. If you… — read more
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#VS2015 – IntelliTests a cool tool to test legacy code
Hola! If you work with legacy apps, you probably know the hard work needed to create a test Environment this this type of apps. In the most simple scenario, you start writing some code and you need some tests to validate you don’t get into any ugly errors. The main issue, is that you are… — read more
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#HUMOR – How cool is Code Map in #VS2015, shut up and Refactoring !!!
Hola! Version en inglés y español de la misma respuesta a una conversación que mantuve esta semana. References – Channel9 Understating Complex Code with Code Map https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-2012-Premium-and-Ultimate-Overview/Visual-Studio-Ultimate-2012-Understanding-complex-code-with-Code-Map-ENU – Visual Studio Gallery, VS10x Code Map https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1c54d1bd-d898-4705-903f-fa4a319b50f2 – MSDN Use code maps to debug your applications https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj739835.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 Saludos @ Madrid /El Bruno — read more
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#VS2015 – Removing code comments with a single click
Hola! As you probably know, I’m not a big fan of code Comments. I mean, sometimes 2 lines of text are very useful to give some context, however I try to avoid them as much as I can. The next comments is mostly boring and doesn’t add any value to my code IMHO I don’t… — read more
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#VS2015 – Some tips to switch to presentation mode in events
Hola! I was in Malaga yesterday sharing some of our experiences with Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015. Like always I make a quick pre check before the Presentation, and someone ask for my A-B-C process, so here it is. Check Audio and Video – If you choose to use a 16:9 format with a… — read more
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#VS2015 – Debug #lambda expressions
Hola! In yesterday’s post I wrote about the debugging Features for LINQ available in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015. In Visual Studio 2015 there is also a new feature for debug Lambda expressions which is very useful. This feature was requested by the community with almost 10K votes (link) and is finally included in Visual… — read more
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#VS2015 – Debugging #LINQ sentences
Hola! If you use ReSharper, you probably note the suggestion you get to convert your ForEach() sentences into LINQ ones. I’m not going to get into details about performance into this options, the focus of this post is on the “clean code”. I mean, how easy is to read this code. Most of the time,… — read more
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#EVENT- Materials used in #Coding4Fun event at Tenerife #Tlp2015 #TlpInnova
Hola! The day before the event I upgraded my laptop to the RTM version of Windows 10, so the demo time during the session was a stressful one. Besides this, I have an amazing time, and the people at the room seems to enjoy my presentation also. I also had the chance to spend some… — read more
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#EVENT- Materials used in Windows 10 Developer Readiness by MVPs #IoT #MVPbuzz #webcast
Hola! I’ve just updated to Windows 10 RTM today, so there is no better time to share the source code, video and slides I used a couple of weeks ago in the webcast for Channel 9 “Windows 10 for developers”. I was talking about Internet of Things and Windows 10. You can access the webcast… — read more
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#VS2015- New features for Error List Panel: Filters and Online Help
Hola! I’ve been using Visual Studio 2015 as my main IDE since a while. One the things I really like about this, is I find really cool stuff almost every day. A couple of weeks ago I was in Andorra and I was sharing one of this new features with my geek friends: New features… — read more
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EVENT- #Coding4Fun 2.5 at #TLP2015 #TLPInnova (Required Update)
Hola! Next week I’ll be hosting a Coding4Session on Tenerife in TLP. The event 2000 new technologies fans, 6 days 24 hours with increased connection of the country. More than 40,000 visitors will immerse in the world of comics, film, and Manga among others. And in TLP Innova will enjoy more than 100 hours of… — read more
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#WINDOWS10- Display Heart Rate Band battery status in a Windows Universal App #BLE
Hola! Series 1. Pair Heart Rate Band using Bluetooth LE to be used in a Windows Universal App 2. Create a Windows Universal App and access to Heart Rate Band information 3. Display Heart Rate Band battery status in a Windows Universal App In my previous post, I wrote a series of steps to create… — read more
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#WINDOWS10- Display live Heart Rate information in Windows Universal app using Bluetooth LE #BLE
Hola! Series 1. Pair Heart Rate Band using Bluetooth LE to be used in a Windows Universal App 2. Create a Windows Universal App and access to Heart Rate Band information In my previous post I wrote on how to connect the heart rate band using Bluetooth and Windows 10. In today’s post I’ll how… — read more
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#HUMOR – I’ll be bach
Hola! Después de un gran fin de semana de gadgets y robots, pues … After a great weekend with gadgets and bots, it time for Saludos @ Madrid /El Bruno — read more