Azure Insider - Soup to Nuts: From Raw Hardware to Cloud-Enabled Device
There is a new gold rush happening and it’s not about precious metals. It’s about building innovative, consumer-based devices and connecting them to the cloud. In this month's Azure Insider feature, the authors roll up their sleeves and explore what it takes to embrace this new computing paradigm.
Cutting Edge - A Look at ClearScript
Add ClearScript into any .NET application to add scripting capabilities, publish objects and enable users to create and run their own scripts within the application.
Microsoft Azure - Introduction to Machine Learning Studio
Machine learning systems use data to make predictions. The Azure Machine Learning Studio gives you a much easier way to create a machine learning model than writing code from scratch.
Windows with C++ - DirectComposition: Transforms and Animation
Building on his previous columns on the DirectComposition API and Direct2D, Kenny Kerr shows how easy it is to add some powerful effects to last month’s project using transforms and animation.
Windows Store - Creating a Location-Aware App with Geofencing
Tony Champion explores the concept of geofencing and shows how to develop a location-aware Windows Store app that uses this feature.
Data Points - Git: It’s Just Data!
Julie Lerman had struggled with Git, until a colleague showed her that Git is really just a database. Follow along as Julie explores the lower level plumbing commands of the Git source control system.
Unity - Developing Your First Game with Unity and C#, Part 2
In the second article in this series on game development with the Unity framework, Adam Tuliper explores the features used in C# and JavaScript to add common functionality to a game.
Test Run - Winnow Classification Using C#
James McCaffrey explores the Winnow algorithm, a relatively simple technique for predicting the results of binary classification problems.
ASP.NET - ASP.NET Web API Security Filters
Learn how to use the new authentication filter in ASP.NET Web API 2 and the existing authorization filter to cleanly separate authentication and authorization concerns.
The Working Programmer - Fun with C#, Part 2
Ted Neward completes his F# adventure, showing how the functional language can be used to solve a thorny C# programming challenge.
Modern Apps - Build Universal Apps for the Windows Platform
Windows platform developers can now write apps that target both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 with a single, shared codebase by creating a Universal App. Rachel Appel shows how you can get started.
DirectX Factor - Vertex Shaders and Transforms
Charles Petzold presents the ThreeRotatingTriangles program, which does some 3D graphics processing without Direct3D, using the powerful feature of Direct2D effects.
Don't Get Me Started - A Girl’s Road to Geekdom
Annabelle Rose Platt is a teenage geek-in-the-making (who also happens to be David Platt's daughter). She guest-writes this month's column on the challenges of attracting girls into IT and software development.
Editor's Note - Six Degrees of Live! 360
From editors to authors, MSDN Magazine has plenty of ties to the Visual Studio Live! and Live! 360 developer conference events.
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