Sorry I didn't get back on yesterday. I have a small blog I started just to help people with initial setup that you can see here
http://illuminationworks.blogspot.com (I'm not a blogger and it shows) But basically it's built in Unity, and you use visual studio for deployment to the device. The dependencies can be tricky to setup, but once it's in place it is very easy to deploy. There's a lot of articles about the general concepts, but you need to be on top of the HoloToolkit to really use the advanced features.
https://github.com/Microsoft/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity