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HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript (for now and may be TypeScript) has emerged as the viable trio for developing Windows as well as Windows Phone APPS. Here are the Apps that you can build with Visual studio 2013 Community Edition using the trio: The Store Apps that you can develop using the trio are: Universal Apps Windows Apps Windows Phone Apps The following are the templates available for each of the above: Universal Apps: Blank App Hub/Piovt App Navigation App Windows App: Blank App Grid App Aplit App Hub App Navigation App Windows Phone App: Blank App Pivot App Navigation App Download Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition (free) here: Download Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition here: https://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2013-community-vs With the community edition you can use the many extensions available as well as cross-platform apps (Xamarim is here in this edition) Here are the installed products when you install the Visual Studio Community edition: Microsoft Visual...

Aloha Microsoft has made it easy to create Apps for windows with a large number of templates to choose from. Your limit is your imagination. In the early days of Internet web site development there were many sites offering free web sites  based on templates. You could sign-in and create a web site with a few pages sprinkled with some images and with some basic formatting tools all under 15 minutes. I created one during those days which is still alive:   http://www.angelfire.com/vt2/hodentek/ App Studio provides a similar user experience albeit lot more sophisticated with much tighter integration with Microsoft's Visual Studio tying up both windows 8.1 development and Windows Phone 8.1 development by intelligently sharing resources. It's two birds with one stone scenario. The journey for this App development starts here: http://appstudio.windowsphone.com/?stay=1 There are preliminaries like having a Microsoft account; having a computer with Windows 8.1 OS (Window...

 How can I program Arduino 101 board using Visual Studio? It is not very difficult. You need to use the right tools. If you rather not use Visual Studio 2015, you could also use the program from Arduino . But Visual studio does lot more than Arduino Program. Follow these steps. Step 1: First thing you need to have is the correct version (if you follow my advice) of Visual Studio. Get the Visual Studio 2015 Community (What I have is the same but with Update 2). If you do not have, no problem. Read this post . Step 2: For Arduino to work with Visual Studio 2015 Community (VS2015C), you need to install the Arduino Extensions for Visual Studio. A default install of VS2015C does not have the 'hooks' to create a Arduino Project. You will not find it in the ' New Project... ' templates. You need to install the Arduino Extension for Visual Studio 2015. You can get an idea how to do it by following this Swaytorial : Step 0: Of course you need to buy t...

Visual Studio is a great piece of software. It's higher end versions are quite expensive but Microsoft has a lower end free version, Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Community which is free. It is well suited for mobile applications on tablets and smart phones. Do not think for a moment this is just for Windows Phone, you can develop cross-platform apps with it. If you want a app with a database backend, you have two options, SQLite and Indexed DB, one in relational and the other is non-relational. It is very easy to have SQLite on Visual Studio 2015 Community. SQLite is also free. In order to work with this post or other Visual Studio related posts you look no further than my blogs. SQLite is a relational database well suited for mobile applications. SQLite was described in a previous post here. As the Internet of Things is the trending area on the Internet, SQLite with its no administration feature is well suited. It is also the relational database for smart devices, cell p...

This is not always clear. It took a while to figure out this thing. I had Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5.4 and ran into some design time problems as described in my post. Following this question taking a suggestion from Stack Overflow, I installed Visual Studio 2017 15.5.6 skipping the suggested 15.5.5. It did help me to avoid the design time problem for a UWP project I was working on. I also updated it to version 15.5.7. When I tried to view my app on an emulator, I did not find an emulator having used the latest version of Visual Studio in the deployment configuration. . Earlier I did not have this is problem before the upgrade. Every time , I try to use an emulator to look at my app, I am lead to a Microsoft site for downloading an emulator. According to UWP Forum on MSDN, there is no hard and fast rule for, ' What emulator with What version of Visual Studio 2017 '. It is more to do with the version you are targeting and the build. You can find this kind of i...

Recently installed Visual Studio Community 2017 with the following details: Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017  Version 15.7.5 VisualStudio.15.Release/15.7.5+27703.2042 Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.7.03062  I tried to run a previously well designed project by loading the project and failed. I noticed a number of errors such as these: The UI elements can still be seen in the XAML view in the MainPage.xaml and the same elements in the MainPage.xaml.cs are getting to be unrecognized by red wiggly (does not exist in the current context). some fifty errors CS0103 error Also the CS1061 error that the MainPage does not contain a definition for 'initialize Component' accepting first argument of type 'MainPage' could be found. I could not fathom the reason and spent about 6 hours. Then I resorted to recreate the app from scratch by creating a new C# project and noticed that the C# language related templates were missing. I am not sue if my errors are re...

Read the following to get an idea of cross-platform options: http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/07/cross-platform-app-development-part-1.html Review this regarding cross-platform app development and Xamarin connection: http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/07/cross-platform-app-development-part-1.html Review regarding XAMARIN: http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/01/master-c-and-become-universal-coder.html Now in Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 you have the Android app under New Project in C#. Sorry, not available for VB. Not only you can work with Android but  also with iOS apps in Visual Studio 2015 CTP6. Review this following screen shot: Andy01 Herein you can write Anroid apps in C# and share your code with iPhone, iPad and other .NET languages. However, there are no built-in templates but there is a link in the previous window at the bottom which will take you to the templates (if any) on the Internet. In your search, look for Samples and under samples C#. Filter the ...

Connection string is the entry point to develop any data-centric application that includes handheld or mobile platform. It really is the first step. If you are accessing SQL Server Compact then this article tells you all that you need to know about connecting to SQL Server Compact from Visual Studio, be it the latest VS2010 or an older data tecnnology. Check out this article and let me know if you liked it. http://www.packtpub.com/article/connecting-microsoft-sql-server-compact-3.5-visual-studio After connecting you can develop a Pocket PC forms application as shown in this article on the same site: http://www.packtpub.com/article/pocket-pc-application-visual-studio-2005   Here is an abstract of the above article: This article by  Dr. Jayaram Krishnaswamy  teaches how you may create a .NET Compact Framework (CF) 2.0 forms application. This can be used with Pocket PC 2003, or later devices. In the absence of a device being available for testing, the emulator is ...

Visual Studio 2017 and accompanying Blend for Visual Studio are well suited tools for developing Universal Windows projects. There appears to be some hard-coding in the application (I tried the recommended Hello World) and after some goading managed to load the project correctly starting with a blank template for C#. The device size in Design is hard-coded and the drop-down to choose size is greyed out. The loaded project (Code and XAML) appears as shown. MainXAML_HW_1 The device size in the Design is hard-coded. The design has very little flexibility to do anything unless I manipulate via the XAML code. However it is possible to adjust if you use the Blend as shown. The same project is now open in Blend. MainXAML_HW_1 Pick the size in XAML and click Save All in File menu in Blend. MainXAML_HW_2 Smaller device is chosen here. MainXAML_HW_3 Now Open the same project in Visual Studio 2017 Community and you will see that the chosen size of device appe...

Smart Phones are even more widespread then PCs because of their outstanding feature-mobility. Because of the combination of Phone plus computing abilities they are in thier own class pushing PCs to ever decreasing adoption. Microsoft entered late to this highly competitivee market. Windows Phones (presently Windows Phone 8 but soon to launch Windows Phone 8.1) are used worldwide and multilingual support is mandatory. The toolkit provides this much needed feature. The Mulitligual toolkit integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio Toolkit to provide translation support for Windows 8 Apps development and editor tools. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465006.aspx The toolkit provides (from MSDN resources) the following: •Helps you manage resource changes and translation status during development. •Provides a UI for choosing languages based on configured translation providers. •Supports the localization industry-standard XLIFF file format. •Provides a pse...