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Visual Studio 2015 Debug Tools

May 12, 2016 Lee Davies Comments 0 Comment

Sometimes I just want to run my Universal Windows Application in debug mode and do some exploratory testing, or just test drive a new change. However, when Visual Studio creates a new project it enables the diagnostic tools and frame rate counter by default. To prevent the Diagnostic Tools from starting when you debug go to the Debug-> Options dialog and uncheck the “Enable Diagnostic Tools while debugging”. To prevent the XAML tools from starting, in the Debug -> Options…

HoloLens Development Edition

March 4, 2016 Lee Davies Comments 0 Comment

Microsoft have finally revealed more information about the HoloLens and has published documentation on their developers site that outlines the API and developer experience we can expect when the “Development Edition” arrives on the 30th of March. Held with the documentation are some pieces of information that are certainly going to impact how/what we develop with the “Development Edition”, it will remain to be seen how many of these restrictions get removed as we move through discovery/development into the production…

A year with MS Band

October 6, 2015 Lee Davies Comments 3 comments

Prolog I rarely purchase version 1 hardware (or software), I tend to wait for the reviews to come out, then the first service pack or hardware update to be released and only then I consider whether I really want the item. I had looked at a couple of other fitness bands and has almost purchased one of the ill fated “Up” bands but most of the fitness trackers did not support my Windows phone or were lacked support for one…