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  1. Conversations with Cortana

    One of the stars of last week's Windows 10 Event was undeniably Cortana. Today we are going to share not one, not two, but three different Cortana dev posts... First a post from Link Removed; Link Removed I wrote a little in this Link Removed about the basics of integrating Cortana into a...
  2. Lync to IoT

    Today's Hardware Friday is of a kind I've not seen before. Sure, we've seen the Chat to Hardware, Hardware to Chat projects, but I don't think I've seen that uses Lync and the Unified Communications Web API. Plus I've missing blogging about .Net Gadgeteer projects... :) Exploring the Internet...
  3. Windows 10 DirectX 12 exclusive to Wondows 10 and 8.1

    Ref: Link Removed The good news is the cards like Nvidia 600 series and AMD's 7000 series can run DX12 so it won't be a case of upgrading although I've heard this before with previous DX releases and it seems the devs always manage to find a way of making it exclusive to a series of card. I...
  4. August 2014 Website Changes and Updates

    What's new for August 18th, 2014 As a long awaited upgrade, we are now using PHP 5.5. Our usermap feature is back today. Enjoy: Link Removed Mobile API has been updated to resolve a number of issues.
  5. "Hello, Kinect?" - Kinect v2 Speech Recognition example

    Bruno Capuano, Friend of the Gallery, shows how fast the Kinect for Windows v2 SDK has been evolving, this time showing off the new Speech Recognition... [#KINECTSDK] Speech recognition now available in SDK V2! “This is preliminary software and/or hardware and APIs are preliminary and subject...
  6. Xbox Music for You (i.e. Dev's)

    Since we last highlighted this project in December 2013, Xbox Music API, it's been pretty quite. Until now. The week before last the Xbox Music team jump started the Xbox Music API with a number of new features, capabilities and samples. Link Removed - Link Removed Welcome to the new Xbox...
  7. Windows Phone 8.1 Text to Speech, Speech to Text and Cortana

    Windows Phone 8.1 will be hitting phones soon now. Yeah, I know all of YOU are running the Windows Phone 8.1 Dev Preview, but for the general user, most should be getting in the coming weeks and months (insert standard disclaimer that your mileage may vary, dates are estimates and under external...
  8. Pick a color, any... "Integrated Color Picker for Visual Studio IDE"

    Today's Visual Studio Extension is more of a "teach you how to fish" kind of extension as anything. As he does so well, Shemeer NS, of Link Removed, has posted another project where he leverages another Control to create a Visual Studio addin that fits just what he needs, showing you all just...
  9. Windows 8.1 DX12 is coming.....

    It won't be with us just yet but an MSDN blog explains what the new API will mean for the future of gaming: Read the full blog here: Link Removed
  10. SetFileCompletionNotificationModes API causes an I/O completion port not to work correctly if...

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  11. FIX: A memory leak condition occurs when the FwpsAllocateCloneNetBufferlist() API is called

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  12. TA13-169A: Oracle Releases Updates for Javadoc and Other Java SE Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: June 18, 2013 | Last revised: June 19, 2013 Systems Affected Any system using Oracle Java including JDK and JRE 7 Update 21 and earlier JDK and JRE 6 Update 45 and earlier JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 45 and earlier JavaFX 2.2.21 and earlier Website owners that host...
  13. Windows 7 Philips Hue Lighting Controller

    Link RemovedSo Philips recently introduced their Hue Connected Bulbs: an easy-to-use set of LED light bulbs and Wi-Fi connected bridge which allows you to dynamically change the color of your home lighting using their iOS or Android app. What’s particularly cool is that the bridge has a web API...
  14. Slow performance occurs when you copy data to a TCP server by using a Windows Sockets API program

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  15. Error logging in HTTP APIs

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  16. GetKeyState function does not work when you use the AttachThreadInput function to attach an input pr

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  17. When calling SignalObjectAndWait API an application hangs on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

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  18. How to download and install DirectX

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  19. An update is available for Windows SDK for Windows 8

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  20. An application or service that uses Winsock API or Winsock Kernel API may randomly stop responding i

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