18 Jul 2023
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Running C# in Windows Terminal!

C#, Development
23 years ago this month, Microsoft announced the initial developer availability (essentially, the "alpha" release) of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. Being in attendance at the 2000 Microsoft PDC (Professional Developer Conference), I received a set of CDs containing the pre-release bits for .NET, including C#. I've been writing C# ever since! Side Note: While C# has been my primary language for a couple of decades now (wow!), it is not the only language I make use of. C# is a very capable language, but there are many other languages out there that can be a better fit,…
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28 Dec 2015

App Studio–Where’s it at Now?

Development, Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10
Nearly a year and a half ago I wrote about Windows Phone App Studio. In that article, I walk through the basic steps of creating a simple Windows Phone app that uses my blog site RSS feed to list and display articles. Nothing too fancy or even complex but it was enough to show that you could create an app that does “something” relatively easy and have it up and running on your devices very quickly.Fast forward 16 months and Microsoft’s App Studio is now simply, App Studio and is still designated as “Beta”. It is no longer Windows Phone…
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