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Learn how to develop games for Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2015 and Win2D! Windows 10 brings about a myriad of new APIs for developers to explore. With Win2D being present on the Universal Windows Platform, find out how you can, using Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015, build games for Windows 10, Windows Mobile 10, Xbox, Windows Holographic, Surface Hub and IoT! When: Saturday, 13 June 2015, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Where: Microsoft Singapore, #22-01, One Marina Boulevard Who: Young Developers, “Level 100-200” Developers Presenter: Riza Marhaban, Technical Evangelist In preparation for this event, you’ll want to be running Windows 10, either installed normally, through a VM or otherwise. You can download Windows 10 over at the Windows Insider website. You’ll also want to have Visual Studio 2015 installed, either the Community or Professional versions would work - download VS over at the Visual Studio website. Win2D is an easy-to-use Windows Runtime API for immediate mode 2D graphics rendering with GPU acceleration. It is available to C# and C++ developers writing Windows apps for Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10. It utilizes the power of Direct2D, and integrates seamlessly with XAML and CoreWindow. ...

Azure Community Singapore is organizing a two-day, two-hour-each hands-on workshop about Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines! At the Azure Ignite Workshop, you’ll learn everything you need to know to set up flexible and scalable servers in the cloud for real-world use for a variety of applications on different OSes. Did they mention it was free? Do join in on 21st and 22nd April (Wed/Thu), 7PM to 9PM for the Azure Ignite Workshop at Microsoft Singapore, especially if you’re a beginner or intermediate developer/IT Pro on cloud technologies! If you think an Active Directory is a phonebook for keeping fit, then this meetup is for you! http://www.meetup.com/AzureSG/events/221785584/

One thing I love about Azure Web Apps is how easy it is to quickly set up various online applications and tools for different purposes. More often than not, you don’t even need to write a line of code! Just a couple of clicks from the Azure Gallery and boom, you have a new custom e-Commerce app ready. Want to write your own code? Just link the website to your source control of choice and continuous integration takes care of the rest! Here’s 10 things you might not have known you could do with Azure. Need an account to get started? Sign up for an Azure account before you try out any of these: ...

Last weekend, my friends and I took part in BattleHack, a hackathon that is held in 14 different cities around the globe, hosted by PayPal and Braintree. During the event, participants were tasked with developing a range of applications, aimed to solve a challenge of their choice. On top of winning a real battle axe that glows (how cool is that!), the winning team of 4 will be flown to the finals at PayPal’s headquarters in Silicon Valley to battle it out with teams from around the world for the $100,000 grand prize. The event kicked-off with a huge bang at 11am, where developers were introduced to all the cool event partners that they may leverage on during the competition. Also, lots of cool swags were given out! Partners for BattleHack were eagerly sharing their individual hardware gadgets and services. Some of them include Hoiio - a software company that provides cloud communication and apps to businesses, Rainmaker Labs - who gave developers the opportunity to use their beacons to trigger actions on mobile phones, 12 Geeks - which brought a cool eyewear that allows developers to create apps on their mobile phones and view them in a 3D-like space, and JustGiving - a platform which helps in fundraising. Well, since a picture speaks a thousand words, I’ll let them do the talking… Keep a look out for all the awesome food provided over the event. They feed us so well, makes us wonder if we’re actually here for a buffet-athon rather than a hack-athon, haha! They even brought in a bartender serving alcohol! As the clock ticks past midnight into the wee hours, I got to see the perseverance of many developers. Of course, there were also those who KO-ed and lost to the Z-monster. If you look hard enough at the photos, you’d spot some teams who would cherish a game of DotA more than their sleep! And finally… the moment we were all waiting for. The sharing session to hear about all the different cool ideas that surfaced from the 24 hours! Ideas ranged from apps that does Twitter Analytics, a mobile phone selling/buying platform, web services that handles memory of your loved ones, mobile services that handles queue problems, food ordering systems, and even crazy ideas that aims to help our rag-and-bone man in their work … and many more! It was truly an amazing experience, and I’ve made lots of friends from different countries and exchanged ideas. Can’t wait till BattleHack 2016, and hope to see everyone again next year :) 

You didn’t read it wrong. I have been a long proponent of Angular ever since it started picking up popularity. As you might have known, Angular is an open source web application framework that is currently maintained by Google and the community. One of the best features of Angular is its two-way data binding that allow us to synchronize models and views automatically. TypeScript on the other hand is a compiled language that is a superset of JavaScript maintained by Microsoft. TypeScript enforces safe-typing and allows modular programming, a feature that we are familiar with in other OOP languages. Angular 2, a newly rewritten version of Angular, is developed for mobile in mind, hence the focus on performance, speed, and efficiency. As of last year, it was written using AtScript, a superset of TypeScript that uses Annotation processing. However, just today, Angular and TypeScript team announced that Angular will now be build with TypeScript. ...

Microsoft has just released an initial SDK preview for Windows 10 developers to start experimenting with the new platform capabilities for building Windows 10 apps. Just to explore the new platform and see how quickly I can launch a new app, I installed the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10041 through the Windows Insider program, and also the latest Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and the Windows 10 developer tools. The cool thing about the Windows 10 Universal App is that it is able to run on all Windows 10 devices - PC, Tablet, Phone, and even Xbox! How awesome is that! Similar to building Apps for Windows 8, the templates allow developers to select a language of their choice, such as C#, VB, C++ and JavaScript. For my case, I chose to use JavaScript. I added in a few of my designs for my app logo and updated their path in the package.appxmanifest. For a quick trial, I reused the code for a Windows 8 app I made in the past. After adding in the code, I can deploy my app for testing purposes on the different platforms. In this preview, the feature to deploy the app to a phone running Windows 10 and Xbox is not yet supported. In the meantime, I can deploy it on the Windows 10 Local Machine, as well as a Windows 10 Phone emulator. Subsequently, I tried to run my Windows 10 app on my Local Machine and Phone Emulator, and this is what I see! As I was checking out on Windows 10 Universal App development, something interesting that I thought was worth mentioning is the Application Insights, which is a service that now allows developers to monitor their published apps and visualize data such as application usage or diagnostic reports in the Azure Preview Portal. Here is a guide that shows you how this can be added to your Windows 10 Universal App. Interested in creating your first Windows 10 Universal App too? There’s a lot of free resources available on Microsoft Virtual Academy, such as A Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 Preview, that you can leverage on! It will show you how you can quickly set up your “Hello World!” app, extension SDKs, App Services and more. Also, if you are familiar in developing on Windows 8, it also guides you on the migration process. Do check it out :)

Web Camp - Exploring Microsoft Azure and MVC framework in Visual Studio Everybody’s gotta start somewhere I’ve been having the inclination to learn how to build my own website for a very long time. The chance to design and style my very own corner of the internet, and upload my ideas and projects has always been exciting, but has been taking a back seat. Too much work, too lazy, too busy with Dota2 - there’s always been an excuse to push it to the next free slot. So when Terence, a Technical Evangelist from Microsoft Singapore posted about his upcoming Web Camp, I was quite excited at the prospect of learning to use Microsoft’s Azure platform for web applications and projects. Laptop? Check. Cables? Check. Open mind? Bit sleepy, but check. Off I went! ...

Are you a maker, a developer, an innovator, an aspiring entrepreneur or a tech-geek? The Transport & You(th) Hackathon is looking for tech-savvy youth, hungry for a social challange. There’s just one objective: Enhance commuter travel experience through use of technology. Make use of rich land transport datasets available at the Hackathon. Team up with your friends to co-create innovative land transport solutions. Think you can make a student’s public transport more entertaining? Want to revolutionize the ecosystem for bus commuters with special needs? Ready to create the next big transport app? This Hackathon is for you. For registration and more information, please visit the official hackathon website. ...

The .NET Developers Community Singapore will have the second meetup. Join the community and meetup. This month the community will share on developing web using .NET. The event will be at *SCAPE The Colony on January 28, 2015, 7.00 PM - 9.00 PM. If you want to know or learn .NET, this community is the best place for you. [caption id=“attachment_19000” align=“aligncenter” width=“722”] *SCAPE The Colony[/caption] Here is the details; http://www.meetup.com/NET-Developers-SG/events/219106052/ Lucky member can win one Western Digital Passport Ultra 1TB (White) door prize for free. ...

Hi All, I would like to invite you to join this Azure Community in Singapore. We will be having the first meetup on February 10. If you want to meet the Microsoft Azure experts, masters, developers, Microsoft MVPs and wants to be friends with them and can learn/share knowledge, than this is the place to be. Come and join this first meetup and bring your friends as well so you be able to know the Azure community member in Singapore. Here is the Agenda for the meetup: ...