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Get Ready for Windows 10: How to Make "Get Windows 10" Icon Appear in Your Windows taskbar

by Arthur V. Ratz

This tip is especially useful for users who own the licensed copy of Windows 7/8/8.1, and would like to upgrade to Windows 10 after July 29, 2015.

Smart WPF Login Overlay (Windows 8 Style)

by DotNetMastermind

Login Overlay for WPF applications with a styling similar to the Windows 8 Login Screen.

Port a 2D libgdx game to MonoGame

by Giannakakis Kostas

Port your libgdx games to run in Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms

Autoshutdown Service in C#

by Kees van Spelde

This is an alternative for "AutoShut, my first program in C#"

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Lee Algorithm Mazesolver

by Shao Voon Wong

Lee Algorithm Mazesolver in MFC and Direct2D

Make Buzzer (Internal Speaker) Sound in Windows 7/8/10 32bit / 64bit

by Andreoli Carlo

In our company, we find ourselves in need of using the internal PC (buzzer) on Windows7 64bit. At the end, we figured out how to do it.

Yet Another Fully Functional ownerdraw Menu

by Steffen Ploetz

Another fully functional ownerdraw menu with minimal effort - this time based on Win32, with icons instead of bitmaps, with accelerators and tested for ReactOS and WinNT 4.0 to Windows 10

UpdaterApp - a Library for Easy Update

by William Costa Rodrigues

This article explains an easy method to download and update your WinForms application

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Yet another Home Monitor

5 Mar 2015 by 65Goat

This contest submission is for a home monitoring solution that reads temperature, humidity and states from various sensors around a home. The data is stored in Azure and can be accessed via mobile devices.

Parallel Operations in .NET using Task Parallel Library

12 Aug 2015 by abhichak

Describing use of Parallel.Invoke and Tasks

4 Sep 2013 by Abhishek Nandy

Touch break and move the game objects

Space3D

4 Sep 2013 by Abhishek Nandy

an app that provides 3D models of Human SpaceFlights

PerCGameBox

13 Aug 2013 by Abhishek Nandy

An app that contains heavy dosage of perceptual games

Klubd

18 Aug 2013 by Abhishek Nandy

Every Possible solution at one place

21 Aug 2013 by Abhishek Nandy

A must app for Tablet Guys!!

IOT Jukebox

26 Oct 2014 by Abhishek Nandy

An Overview of IOT

A sneak peak on Windows Embedded with Galileo

9 Nov 2014 by Abhishek Nandy

simple example of Windows Embedded with Intel Galileo(Stage #2 Windows Embedded)

Sharing Code Between Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps using MVVM and PCL

31 Mar 2014 by Adil Mughal

This article explains how developers can leverage Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and .NET Portable Class Libraries (PCL) to create a shared/reusable code for developing apps on Windows Phone and Windows Store platforms.

Windows-Phone-8

Don't Lose Your Marbles

23 Aug 2013 by Adrian Akison

App Innovation Game for Lenovo Horizon All-In-One

Expression-blend

MFC PowerShells Easily

24 Feb 2015 by aljodav

A very easy way to drive PowerShell console application through MFC

The Dew Review – Intel Next Generation Ultrabook™ with Windows 8: Initial Impressions

5 Sep 2012 by Alvin Ashcraft

Ultrabook initial impressions.

The Dew Review – Intel Next Generation Ultrabook™ with Windows 8: A Final Look

21 Nov 2012 by Alvin Ashcraft

This is my third and final review of the Intel Ultrabook.

The Dew Review - DevExpress Universal 14.2.4

18 Feb 2015 by Alvin Ashcraft

This year I have been looking at and starting to use several components from the Universal 14.2.4 release.

Windows 8 – background Processing

13 Jan 2014 by ambilykk

Article explain the importance of background processing in Windows 8 Store App development and how to create a background process in Windows 8 Store App

Using Windows 8 Interaction Context for Processing Touch Input in a .NET WinForms App

16 Jun 2013 by Andrey Dryazgov

Introduces a managed wrapper for the Interaction Context API and provides a consistent way for processing touch input in a managed desktop app for WinForms.

Hello B4A: Develop Native Android Apps using Visual Basic Syntax

8 Nov 2016 by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Using Basic4Android, develop your first Android Native App

Bug Finder, A Real Win32 Extensible Passive Debugger

28 Feb 2018 by Antonio Petricca

Win32, compiler independent, and extensible passive debugger

Extended Windows Service Controller

3 Oct 2013 by Antonio Petricca

.NET ServiceController class extension

Modern Scrapbook

24 Jul 2013 by apmyhr

Touch enabled application for creating scrapbooks from social service hosted pictures.

21 Jan 2015 by Arpankumar Rank

MixUp Puzzle! Is a Memory Power Game. It can be played by anybody especially kids.

Getting Started with Mean Stack

23 Dec 2015 by Ashwin. Shetty

Writing your first app using Mean Stack (M = MongoDB, E = Express.JS, A = Angular.JS and N = Node.js)

A Text Editor App in Windows Store

8 Feb 2016 by Azim Zahir

This is a Text Editor App for Windows 8.

A Simple C++ Profiler on x64

5 Aug 2014 by Babu_Abdulsalam

A Simple Profiler for C++ apps on x64 platform

C++11 Concurrency

30 Dec 2014 by Babu_Abdulsalam

Various features supporting Concurrency in C++11

multi-threading

RadialControls - Normal Controls, BenT

17 Jul 2015 by Ben Thorner

A tutorial on RadialControls - a library of circular controls for Windows 8 Apps.

Keyword Extraction Based On Entropy Difference

9 Sep 2013 by BjutCS

Here ,we provide simple and practical keyword extraction software and dll for long text

Some Examples of Intel Hardware Improving the Windows 8.1 Experience

17 Mar 2014 by Brad_Hill

Upgrading to Windows 8.1 further refines the Windows 8 user experience. Many of the changes are subtle, but there are some significant points that showcase the performance and power of Intel architecture.

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Developing 3D Games for Windows* 8 with C++ and Microsoft DirectX*

12 Sep 2014 by Bruno Sonnino

In this article, I show you how to develop a soccer penalties shootout game.

Running the AxWebBrowser Control in a separate process

17 Nov 2014 by bssrini

Browser control plays an important role in hybrid application development, when browser controls are used for a prolonged time its memory foot print starts to increase gradually. This article explains a way to host the browser control in a separate process which can be loaded/unloaded as needed.

Paper Down Hill

27 Jul 2013 by Ched1980

A four-player soap-box time-trial game with a twist.

17 Nov 2013 by Ched1980

Four player sci-fi maze game with traps and looting and that

Explore 3D

15 Aug 2013 by Chris Boss

OpenGL based 3D learning software

A review and refresher on the Intel Ultrabook

4 Jan 2013 by Chris Maunder

Impressions on using a 3rd gen sensor-and touchscreen-equipped Intel Ultrabook prototype.

How to Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in C++ with gSOAP

13 Jul 2017 by Chris Moutsos

How to connect to Amazon S3 with gSOAP to store and retrieve data

Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript: Part 1 – Windows 8 App Basics

23 Oct 2012 by Chris_Bowen

We’ll be using HTML5, JavaScript, WinJS, and some helpful libraries from CreateJS along the way.

Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript: Part 3 – Game Logic

18 Sep 2012 by Chris_Bowen

This is the third in a series of posts that will show you to create a (very) simple Windows 8 game.

Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript: Part 4 – Input & Sound

18 Sep 2012 by Chris_Bowen

This is the fourth in a series of posts that will show you to create a (very) simple Windows 8 game.

DirectX and Pure Assembly Language: Doing What Can't be Done - Part IV(b): the Full DirectX App

26 Jun 2018 by CMalcheski

A Full DirectX Sample Application Created in Pure Assembly Language

Clearer – A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application

9 Oct 2012 by Colin Eberhardt

This article describes my experiences of porting a novel gesture-driven Windows Phone app to Windows 8.

Windows-Phone-7

The Intel® Core™ M Processor

6 Nov 2014 by Colleen Culbertson

This article, aimed at developers, will provide a glimpse into this 64-bit, multi-core SOC processor, and gives an overview of the available Intel® technologies, including Intel® HD Graphics 5300.

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Mo+ - A model oriented programming language and IDE for model oriented development

21 Mar 2017 by Dave Clemmer

Mo+ is the first technology that fully supports model oriented development, allowing software developers to powerfully scale the work they already do.

code-generation

How to do some magic with indexedDB

26 Mar 2014 by David Fahlander

Discover the hidden features of indexedDB!

A Help Infrastructure For WinRT Phones and Apps

1 Sep 2015 by David Maw

A way to embed help pages within a Windows RT or Phone program

Windows-Phone-8

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 3 - AvalonEdit in AvalonDock

31 Jan 2014 by Dirk Bahle

How to integrate AvalonEdit into AvalonDock [2.0] using MVVM

AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 4 - Integrating AvalonEdit Options

31 Jan 2014 by Dirk Bahle

Integrate AvalonEdit with text editing options into AvalonDock [2.0]

CyberLink and Intel Use Collaborative Design to Create MediaStory

16 Oct 2014 by Dominic Milano

CyberLink MediaStory* software greatly streamlines the process of organizing and accessing the mountains of pictures and videos stored across phones, cameras, tablets, PCs, and the cloud to assemble professional-looking videos that can be shared in minutes.

Paint Your Music: A Table-Top, Multi-Touch-Enabled Virtual Musical Instrument/Game

16 Oct 2014 by Dominic Milano

TheBestSync, a China-based software company focused on integrated software and hardware solutions, entered the Intel App Innovation Contest 2013 (Intel AIC 2013) in partnership with Intel® Developer Zone with the idea of combining game and music technology with an AIO device to create an exciting n

One Touch Composer: Creating a Digital Sheet Music App with Touch, Stylus, and Keyboard Control on Microsoft Windows* 8 Tablets

16 Oct 2014 by Dominic Milano

When Dmitriy Golonanov, the CEO of the international company, Maestro Music Software, learned that many musicians would rather use a lightweight tablet than carry a laptop to gigs or a classroom, he decided to enlist a small team of developers, which included Sergey Samokhin, to create music notatio

Smart WPF Login Overlay (Windows 8 Style)

3 Dec 2012 by DotNetMastermind

Login Overlay for WPF applications with a styling similar to the Windows 8 Login Screen.

Use Excel in PowerShell without a full version of Excel

18 Oct 2013 by Douglas M. Weems

Easily import Excel Sheets into PowerShell as PS Objects

Deploy Sideloaded Windows 8 App in Production

31 Jul 2015 by dpalash

Through this article, you will learn how to deploy the sideloaded Windows 8 app to production easily and maintain/provide regular upgrade version of the app.

DLNA made easy with "Play To" from any device

6 Apr 2015 by Dr Gadgit

Covers SSDP messages and XML replies plus how to stream a play-list

Engineering Calculator VOLTA-814

19 Dec 2016 by DrABELL

Engineering Calculator VOLTA-814 (Productivity Software contest submission) was originally developed as HTML5 web application and later converted into desktop app using Intel’s AppUp encapsulator. The latest version for Win 7/8 released in 2014 is built on .NET/WPF.

Fast Point Cloud Viewer with C# and OpenGL

17 Aug 2016 by Edgar Maass

Open and display point clouds using a simple user control. Technology used: C# and the OpenGL library via the OpenTK port to .NET.

Kinect v2 Point Cloud Scanner and Viewer

3 Apr 2017 by Edgar Maass

Display a Point Cloud grabbed by the Microsoft Kinect v2 in a OpenGL control

Point cloud alignment: ICP methods compared

15 Aug 2016 by Edgar Maass

Different methods to align (aka stich, register) point clouds via the ICP (Iterative Closest Point) method

Gameplay: Touch controls for your favorite games

17 Jan 2014 by Erik Niemeyer

An overview of gameplay software for Windows 8 lets gamers use and build their own Virtual Controllers for touch, which are overlaid on top of existing PC games

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Gameplay: Touch Controls and 2-in-1 Awareness for Your Favorite Games

25 Mar 2014 by Erik Niemeyer, Chris Kirkpatrick

Ideum’s collaboration with Intel gave them access to technology and engineering resources to make the touch overlay and 2-in-1 awareness in Gameplay possible.

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Live uploading of video from web camera on YouTube service on Windows 8 and Windows 10

26 Jun 2016 by Evgeny Pereguda

Simple imitation of direct streaming of live video from web cam on YouTube service on Windows 8 and Windows 10

Capturing Live-video from Web-camera on Windows 7 and Windows 8

24 May 2015 by Evgeny Pereguda

Simple lib for capturing live-video from web-camera by using Media Foundation

Highlight GridView rows in JavaScript and CSS

6 Oct 2015 by Fandango68

Use JavaScript to manage control layouts, formatting and highlights, without the need for Postback which is not so clean.

Metro Paint

6 Nov 2013 by Farhan Ghumra

A Metro style app for basic drawing feature.

Driving route path direction with Bing Maps in C#/XAML in a Windows 8 app

18 Apr 2013 by Farhan Ghumra

How to draw a driving route direction with Bing Maps in C#/XAML in a Windows 8 app.

Creating multi-platform games with Cocos2d-x

28 May 2014 by FELIPE PEDROSO

In this tutorial how to create a simple game using the Cocos2d-x framework in a Windows development environment and how to compile it to run on Windows 8 and Android.

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WPF and multi-touch

30 Sep 2016 by Florian Rappl

Exploring WPF capabilities, limitations and work-arounds to create state-of-the-art applications with multi-touch features.

Quantum Striker

15 Jul 2014 by Florian Rappl

Architecture, design and implementation of a cross-platform Windows Desktop / Windows Store space shoot-em-up game.

An experiment with random-access data virtualisation in a Windows Store app with XAML, C# and Rx

26 May 2015 by FrankSzendzielarz

Here I share the code of an R&D experiment to explore an alternative approach to data virtualization, using Rx and a XAML ListView in a Windows Store app, where I consider the IObservableVector as an "Observing" collection that reacts to UI event streams

Searchable WPF TreeView

13 Oct 2016 by Fredrik Bornander

Showing how to prune nodes of a TreeView as a means of searching

Managing Multiple selection in View Model (.NET Metro Style Apps)

29 Jun 2012 by Fun@learn

This article provides Attached Behavior based approach to manage Multiple Selection in Collection Based UI control from the View Model. All the code in this article is strictly applicable to Win 8 metro style apps. Though the Behaviors can be easily adapted to WPF/Silverlight.

Consuming ASP.NET WEB API using ASP.NET MVC4 and RestSharp

6 Oct 2014 by Gaurav Aroraa

In this article, we will learn how to consume ASP.NET WEB API hosted on another server (as a REST services only) using ASP.NET MVC4 (as a client) with RESTSHARP.

Learning Test Driven Development with TDD Katas

14 Mar 2015 by Gaurav Aroraa

In this article, we will discuss all about TDD Katas and how we can get hands-on with Test Driven Development (TDD).

Getting Started with Azure API Management

26 Mar 2015 by Gaurav Aroraa

In this article, we will discuss basics of Azure API Management to manage our Web API.

PHP A to Z

25 Jun 2013 by Gazmend Jakupi

Tutorial for developing in PHP

Enter the Wormhole

16 Oct 2014 by Geoff Arnold

fter participating in an earlier Intel contest, developer Dave Gannon took on these challenges, coming back with a vengeance with Wormhole Pinball, the winning app in the games category in the Intel App Innovation Contest 2013 in partnership with the Intel® Developer Zone.

SensiGator Charts New Course for Bing* Maps on Windows* 8 Tablets

6 Nov 2014 by Geoff Arnold

Built for the Lenovo ThinkPad* Tablet 2 and Ultrabook™ 2 in 1, running Windows* 8.1, SensiGator thoroughly takes advantage of the various sensors and input modalities of the tablet platfor

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Draw Behind Desktop Icons in Windows 8+

22 Dec 2014 by Gerald Degeneve

Draw or render a Windows Form directly over the Wallpaper, behind the Desktop Icons in Windows 8+10

Port a 2D libgdx game to MonoGame

14 Apr 2014 by Giannakakis Kostas

Port your libgdx games to run in Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms

Windows-Phone-7

Get HDD Serial Number with C#

10 Jun 2018 by hasan bozkurt

How to obtain HDD information with C#

How to diagnose JavaScript Errors Faster with Error

13 Feb 2013 by HTML5 Partners

The increasing power and complexity of these apps means developers need better tools like Error.stack for handling errors and diagnosing bugs. In this article, I’ll show you some simple debugging techniques to help save you time.

Ultrabook Convertible Application Design Considerations

21 Dec 2012 by Intel

Ultrabook Convertible Application Design Considerations.

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Case Study: Soma Games Develops Graphics-rich Game for Ultrabook™ in the Intel® Ultimate Coder Challenge

21 Dec 2012 by Intel

Case Study: Soma Games Develops Graphics-rich Game for Ultrabook™ in the Intel® Ultimate Coder Challenge

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Case Study: 4tiitoo Constructs a Modern User Interface with Voice, Gesture, and Eye Tracking Input

12 Apr 2013 by Intel

Case Study: 4tiitoo Constructs a Modern User Interface with Voice, Gesture, and Eye Tracking Input

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Loclville Case Study

26 Apr 2013 by Intel

Loclville is a free Windows* 8 app that provides an easy-to-use virtual community notice board. This article covers that app's journey.

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Case Study: Sesame Factory Engages Sensor Functionality on Ultrabook™ Systems for an Enhanced Diary Application

26 Jul 2013 by Intel

Case Study: Sesame Factory Engages Sensor Functionality on Ultrabook™ Systems for an Enhanced Diary Application

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Bringing RISK to the Digital World

18 Mar 2015 by Intel

This case study examines the process that game developer Marmalade followed as it created an electronic version of Hasbro’s classic board game, RISK: The Game of Global Domination.

artificial-intelligence

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Sharing Surfaces between OpenCL™ and DirectX 11 on Intel® Processor Graphics

18 Mar 2015 by Intel

This tutorial demonstrates how to share surfaces between OpenCL™ and DirectX 11 with Intel ® Processor Graphics on Microsoft Windows, using the surface sharing extension in OpenCL.

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PParser - Part 2

5 Sep 2015 by InvisibleMedia

Specify grammatical contexts

regular-expression

Getting All "Special Folders" via VB.NET

12 Apr 2016 by Jalapeno Bob

A VB.NET version of Ray Koopa's 21 Mar 2016 article, Getting All "Special Folders" in .NET

Quality Manager - An IAC 2013 Contest Entry

25 Oct 2013 by Jason Gleim

An application to help QA inspectors in the field

A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.

26 Nov 2014 by Jeremy Falcon

Provides a base to use when programming OpenGL-enabled applications for the real world, rather than a simple hello world.

Computer Temperatures, Fan Speeds, etc.

16 Oct 2018 by JL Doty

Fully exploit features of OpenHardwareMonitorLib.dll

SoloGig v1.0 for Windows And Win 8.1 Tablets (not WinRT)

21 Mar 2015 by Joe Dufresne

A small utility app which uses the excellent NAudio library to help organize backing tracks (audio files for band minus one situations), chord / lead sheets, lyrics, etc. Intended for Windows tablets running a full version of Windows 8.1.

C++ WinAPI Wrapper Object using thunks (x32 and x64)

6 Dec 2016 by Jon Campbell

Using "thunk" technique to add this pointer as fifth parameter to WndProc call for x32 and x64

Configuring IIS, ASP.NET, and SQL Server

29 Oct 2013 by Juan Davel

This article is an updated one discussing the configuration of IIS, ASP.NET and SQL Server.

SQL-Server-2008

Async MVVM Modern UI

16 Aug 2012 by Juan Pablo G.C.

Using MVVM with Windows 8 Modern UI.

Calling All Stations

5 Dec 2014 by KarstenK

Interoperability: Calling C++ from C#

Custom Role Providers

19 Jun 2013 by Karthik. A

An introduction to custom role providers in an ASP.NET MVC 3 application using the Entity Framework for ORM.

Autoshutdown Service in C#

10 Jan 2014 by Kees van Spelde

This is an alternative for "AutoShut, my first program in C#"