Resources for 3D Graphics

By Kris Athi in C# on

This is a post I've wanted to put together for a while now, but I haven't exactly known what to call it or describe what it is I'm trying to get across. But with the flurry of activity I've seen on twitter recently surrounding the Mixed Reality stuff coming in…

Windows 10 Creators Update & Paint 3D

By Kris Athi in Build on

With the Windows 10 Creators Update RTM shipping recently (and the next update being revealed at Build 2017) I thought it would be fun to share some of my experiences working with the Paint 3D team. This won't be a technical deep dive into how the app works it's purely…

Format Date based on User's Locale in a UWP App

By Kris Athi in C# on

Another app I was working on recently needed to fetch the current date but also be in the correct format depending on the location settings found in Settings -> Time & Language -> Region & Language -> Country or region in Windows 10. The following code did…

Build 2015 and that Android/iOS Announcement

By Kris Athi in iOS on

So here I am sat in the dining hall area of the Moscone centre in San Francisco nearing the finish line of another Build conference. As is always the case with being a Microsoft developer, its been a crazy rollercoaster of Microsoft's future vision as a company, some really cool…