Mouse cursor / pointer invisible Windows 8.1

Recently Windows 8.1 gave me a lot of headaches because of a stupid mouse pointer. For some reason the pointer wasn’t showing, which is quite annoying even though I know a lot of shortcuts.

I’ve searched the internet (without a cursor) and everybody was saying it was because I was connected to an external display. Was the cursor saying that he didn’t want to travel from screen to screen? And at the end, I wasn’t connected to an external display.

I tried to recall when I saw that bloody thing for the last time. The last time that I saw it was before I changed the power settings to “Power Saver” and adjusted the screen brightness. After going to sleep mode the cursor was gone.

So my final try was to change the settings to “Balanced” again and adjust the screen display and tadaaaaaaa, the cursor was back in business.

I missed you, now your back: work for me

 

K

Building cross platform applications using Windows Azure Mobile Services

After two days of MultiMania fun, time to upload the slides used during the presentation:

 

Building cross platform applications using Windows Azure Mobile Services from Kevin DeRudder

 

K

Building & Testing Win8 app with Team Foundation Services and Microsoft Test Manager 2012

Our Techdays 2013 session is online.

As a reminder, here is the abstract of the session:

Visual Studio 2012 offers you all the required dev tools to build nice looking Windows 8 Applications, but together with the Application Lifecycle Management tools in Team Foundation Server 2012, you can now also easily setup a distributed team development environment with version control, work item management, build automation and test case management. In this session, you will get a quickstart to develop a Windows 8 app, making use of Team Foundation Service (in the cloud). We will also demo the advanced testing features in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 to run Exploratory Tests on Windows 8 applications to detect potential bugs and to capture rich visual debugging information for the development team.

The video can be viewed on channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/Belgium-2013/11

K

If you are serious about web development, take a look on modern.IE

Writing cool HTML and CSS code is not always the easiest thing to do, specially if you need to get it working on older browsers.

Modern.ie is  Microsofts effort to make this easier for you. Modern.ie is a dev center with free (yes free) tools and resources to spend more time building your web applications instead of testing it on older browsers.

• Download virtual machines
• Scan a webpage for common coding issues
• Test BrowserStack for 3 months.

Read more on modern.ie

Use HTML5 to build what you want, where you want it

For all those students who want to download the presentation I gave at the techdays, find them on slideshare:

Use html5 to build what you want, where you want it from Kevin DeRudder

I had a great time, and I hope that I could inspire you to create awesome windows 8 applications using your HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills.

I also found some pictures that a few of my colleagues took during the session for those who want to have an impression of how it was:

  

 

If you also have image sabout the session, please mail them.

K.

Building & Testing a Windows 8 App, making use of Team Foundation Service and Microsoft Test Manager 2012

Hi there,

The slides Pieter and I used in our techdays presentation can be viewed on slideshare:

Build test win8 apps with tfs from Kevin DeRudder

Hope your enjoyed the session, even when my voice was working to well

Every Web Developer is a Win8 developer presentation on MultiMania

First of all, I had a great time on MultiMania and met a lot of great people over there. People from different worlds. Every day I work mainly in a Microsoft world, developing websites with ASP.NET MVC but I’m also busy in HTML5, CSS3 and the combination is something that I love.

But on MultiMania I had the chance to talk to Adobe people, Game creators, … Some talks were inspirational, other ones were technical and that what it’s all about isn’t it!

On MultiManie Dieter and I gave a presentation on Win8 development and how you can use your existing web skills to build Metro applications.

In case you’ve missed it, here are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/kevinderudder/every-web-developer-is-a-win8-developer

Every Web Developer is a Win8 developerhttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=multimaniawin8html5-120523013923-phpapp02&stripped_title=every-web-developer-is-a-win8-developer&userName=kevinderudder

View more presentations from Kevin DeRudder.

Live session on Media Queries now on Channel 9

My Live session on CSS Media Queries is now available on Channel 9.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Using-CSS3-Media-Queries-to-build-Mobile-Web-Applications/player?w=512&h=288

 

k.

Slides and demo on my Media Queries Live session @ Microsoft

So here are my slides and demos from my Live session at Microsoft. Hope you found it interesting and may it be useful in your web applications.

For those who didn’t follow the session. We changed the existing ASP.NET MVC Music Store site, so that it would be available on a mobile phone as well.

Media querieshttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=mediaqueries-120313110821-phpapp02&stripped_title=media-queries&userName=kevinderudder

View more presentations from Kevin DeRudder.

The video will be online in a few days on Channel9.

 

 

k.

ASP.NET MVC Music Store on a mobile device

Next week, i will be giving a session on CSS Media Queries at Microsoft. While I was making the slides I was thinking about some demos.

One of the things I will be showing is how you can change the ASP.NET MVC Music Store css so that it would render nicely on a mobile device.

This is a screen shot of what I will do, just to make you hungry for more. On the left, you see the normal desktop version, on the right is the mobile version:

so, tune in for the Media Queries Live session.