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Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP2 available

Today Microsoft announced the availability of the second Windows Embedded Standard 8 community technology preview (CTP) at Computex.

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Kinect For Windows v1.5

A few days ago a new version of the Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK has been released!

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New Start Something! Tour Event In Turin

On June 15th there will be a new Start Something! Tour event in Turin, hosted and organized by Microsoft, in collaboration with TTG - Torino Technologies Group community. As did in the previous event held in March, it will be an open day for people who want to write and test their applications on Windows Phone devices (in collaboration with Nokia) or Series 5/Series 7 Tablets and Notebooks with Windows 8 (in collaboration with Samsung).

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MetroMVVM On Codeplex

MetroMVVM is a .NET helper library for Windows 8 Metro style XAML applications. It contains a set of basic components, helpers and extensions to easily develop apps based on the Model-View-ViewModel pattern. The goal of this library is to make Windows 8 XAML apps development faster, using a widely adopted pattern and a decoupled architecture, so developers won't have to spend time solving problems that have already been solved.

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Gaztrack Released!

GazTrack is an easy car fuel tracking system with simple data analysis. It easily tracks your car refuel history and fuel economy. Data input takes just few seconds each time, then the app takes care of the rest, such as calculating MPG and other interesting statistics.

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